Life between coffees.
Three things that annoy me that happened in the last hour.
It’s been a busy week so just enough time for a quick house update. The tilers have been in, which is the beginning of the final stages. Air conditioning and heating completed with vents in place and all door handles are now on. Basically it’s tiles, showers, bath, taps and the kitchen sink to go. Should only take another year or so at this rate.
Miss Moo after the tantrum.
Veronica and Jonathon came over for a play date this morning. After some warming up the boys got stuck in to some serious kids play and then, all too soon, it was time to say goodbye.
A quick house update. We can now, finally, see what colour we chose for the front door. The lights are all in and functioning, internal paintwork is finished, the tiles are piled in the dining room ready to go up (although we were told that would be happening two weeks ago), power points are all in, antenna connections are in, all external guttering (finally) finished. It’s getting closer, we can really feel it now.
Let the picture below, spotted by Rae, be a lesson to protestors around the world.
When you have your photo taken make sure you don’t end up appearing to send a message directly opposed to the one you intended to send.
Some more news on the house front. Wonderful Wife Rae set a little rocket up Henley with an email over the weekend that resulted in a call from the area manager yesterday. The upshot is we have a slim chance of getting the house before Christmas, which of course means the balance of probabilities lies with getting it after, but from the dates mentioned we will definitely be out of here by the end of our lease at the end of January.
Now we start the clearing of junk and packing up planning in earnest, already large amounts of clothes are finding their way on to Freecycle and we are revisiting the garage sale idea to clear out more ‘stuff’. Once we have a firm date (hopefully in a few weeks) we’ll know if the boxes have to start being packed straight away or if they can wait until after Christmas. Either way it’s going to be a busy Christmas/New Year holiday for us.
Last night we drew up a list of things we need/would like to add to the house and so far, in no particular order, we have come up with :
Some we’ll have to do straight away, some are high priority and some, well, I’ll probably be blogging in ten years time about needing them to be done.
It turned out to be a kitchen day today. First off was spying some day old tortillas on the bench just before lunch. Hmmm. A bit of tomato paste, some mozzarella and some parmesan, couple of minutes in the oven and it’s happy kids munching away on Tony’s Tortilla Cheese Pizza.
In the afternoon I baked a banana cake that was promptly demolished by everyone for afternoon tea, although I’ve learned my lesson and I saved a piece for Rae. Then there was the loaf of bread that’s almost done baking and finally a new recipe for Not Fried Rice, which, along with the banana cake, came from this week’s Planning Queens Menu Plan Monday.
That’s three more to add to the roster.
A couple of weeks ago we needed new garbage bags for the kitchen bin (rivetting stuff, I know). So Rae picked up some Glad Wave Top Tie bags. Fair enough, Glad is a good solid brand, they should have no problems holding the rubbish. Or so you’d think. Each and every bag we have used has split and the wave tops tear off with the slightest tug. As the garbage spilled across the kitchen floor (again) this morning I’d had enough so I did what anyone would do, and jumped on their web site to complain.
Okay, there’s the contact form, a drop down for complaints, fill out, press submit. A couple of minutes later the standard ‘thanks for contacting us’ email appeared in my inbox. So far so good. Then another email arrived.
It appears that complaints are meant to be emailed to vicky@tribalddb.com.au who works for Tribal DBB in Sydney (and let’s just ignore the fact that complaints for a major company go to a software developer at their advertising agency) but Vicky’s server is rejecting any incoming email so complaints just disappear in to the internet ether. Way to go Glad. I think Tribal DDB also fail in their goal “to develop truly unique and effective communication solutions”. Ignoring loyal customers may be unique, effective however…