The right move
Last weekend…It was absolutely exhausting - packing all things and preparing for moving. You can never imaging how many things you own, hehe. Even after chucking few things away and given away others to charity we still happened to have so many of them that I was extremely terrified.. I love moving to new places, love changes, but i do HATE packing and actual process of moving. It seemed to me never-ending. How many times will it take to take bags and boxes downstairs and then to bring them upstairs? Will we fit all of them in the cupboards? These questions were quite depressing for me, as usual.
So I’m so glad these few days are history now. We are now relaxed and enjoying our new space and ourselves. And with a little help of extra cash we live now in a very nice flat with a middle-size bedroom and a proper-size lounge. We still wait to be connected to the 24Mb broadband, but meanwhile… good news, everyone - we can catch the wireless signal from the restaurant downstairs :) That was quite unexpected, but as a matter of fact, I have never been left without internet for more then a few days since my computer at the bank I was working at had got a connection. And it was… let me think… 8 years ago… Wow, that’s quite… noteworthy.
Another extremely important thing is that we share the flat with extremely nice people ;) Our flat-mates are Aidan, a friend of mine with whom I work together and his girlfriend. I’m extremely happy we were not just chatting about ‘oh yeah it would be nice if we could find a place to share and have fun’ (what we, people, do quite often - have meaningless talks about the things we will never do, just for the sake of talking or better to say, socializing) but actually did it :), though at some point for certain reasons we seemed to give up on that idea.
Apart from just being nice, our flat-mates can cook :) Aidan’s gf has already prepared for us once a yummy curry and also another indian dish, which name I don’t remember, the other night, and also surprise… surprise.. Aidan volunteered to cook a Sunday dinner, what was very sweet of him. I did a bit of cheating, i.e. boiling traditional russian meat dumplings which I bought in local eastern-european grocery, but since they were delicious, which was admitted by everyone and guys did not taste those things before, I didn’t feel guilty about it at all :)
Another thing about our flat-mates is that Aidan owns literally tons of DVDs (I already told him there was such a thing as movie rent of what’s existence he obviously was not aware) and also they both are enthusiastic gamers, owning everything from Nintendo DS and PSP to Wii and Xbox 360. Well, this is kind of cool addition to our flat’s fun, isn’t it? So the top picture you saw was our ultimate entertainment center :)
So yeah, very, very happy about this move. It all looks to me very promising. We’ve already had couple of friends invited to Saturday dinner and there are still more things to come. I wonder if our flat-mates will always be so nice and sweet. Really hope so. Shouldn’t really be any catch there ;)