We are now officially Homeowners again (I GULP at the size of mortgage payments to come)! We were given the keys yesterday and I guess it's Hard Work City from here on with all the decorating and renovating that needs doing - daunting!
The wood floor guys arrive this morning to begin whatever it is they need to begin to lay the wood floor on the upper level of the house. Also there's a washing machine and tumble drier arriving which I can use my new PERSIL with... did I write about the Persil Incident already? No? Oh well there's a shop somewhere in Bellevue that sells Persil laundry soap. I fancied my clothes smelling like 'home' so I went to buy some. Grabbed a couple of bottles of the stuff from the shelf, went up to the counter, the guy started ringing up my invoice and waffling about how Persil is the bees knees in the laundry industry and I was just thinking yeah yeah shut up already..... I handed him over my debit card and he processed it (weird thing about debit cards here is there is no security process involved whatsoever, you hand them the card and they hand it back to you - transaction complete). He handed me the receipt and I glanced down to discover I'd just spent $55 on 2 bottles of Persil - nightmare!
All Persil Parcels gratefully received... it does smell very good even if it's not worth 55 bucks!
Yesterday we went to the Zoo with some friends which was an excellent day out - particularly in the heatwave as for the most part it's completely shaded with plants and trees. The kids loved it, running around looking at the animals, and I had a good time chatting with friends. We ended up going back to one friends house and having dinner, G joining us there later! Stopped by the new place on the way back to see it, as it's now ours, and this morning we have to go and start decorating the boys bedoroms. I want them to be 'ready to move into' when we do move in next week for Dylans sake really, more than anything. He's finally settled down here, seems to be enjoying himself, not so scared / nervy, and I want him to have as little upheaval as possible when we go including going straight into a lovely bedroom.