Moving

Not a lot of updates the last week or so as I've been in the process of moving into my new place at Richmond.

The first part of this involved having a garage sale. I'm not so sure I would ever want to do that again. The people who come to these things literally suck the life out of you. I advertised mine as starting at 8.30am, by about 7.15am I had people calling out from the end of my driveway, asking if they could come and take an early look. Thankfully I had locks on my gates to keep the vultures out. When I opened the gates at 8.30am as promised a few of them even grumbled about how long they'd been waiting. Then proceeded to buy nothing, if I remember correctly.

I ended up making a bit over $200, but the process was so tedious and painful. The worst part was when people would pick something up, ask how much it was, I'd say "a dollar" just to get rid of it, and they'd contemplate it for a bit then put it down.

On Monday I did the actual move, with the help of the Crouch family, my family (sans Kerry) and Murray. The move went relatively smoothly, although it made me realise I should really stop buying things. Like right now. I've always been a bit of a hoarder, and so having a shed wasn't really good for me. I found magazines dating back for the last 15 years or so, a whole lot of stuff that I can't remember where it came from (meaning it probably wasn't actually mine), and whole range of half used building supplies . . .

Since both my old and new houses settled on the same day, it was going to be hard to do the changeover, but luckily the new one was vacant for a week before settlement and so the agent gave me the keys to store my property on the site. I took the phrase "store my property" to mean "move in completely", so have been living there since Monday. Also lucky for me, the old tenants left the power and gas on, so I've been using that the last few days. The least they could do really considering the condition they left the place in.

So far I'm enjoying the new location. I seem to be under the flight path, but notice that a little less each day. Being closer to town is great - it took me 14 minutes to get into town and into my carpark this morning, which was fantastic. Looking forward to exploring the new hood now - I tried the local pizza place on Monday night (had an unusual buy not unpleasant bbq beef and pineapple pizza), and can't wait to try the local chinese takeaway which offers meals for $6.