Settling In

 What a crazy month for me.  Today I handed back my keys to the house that was my former residence.  I spent all morning cleaning it and mowing the grass, well mostly weeds but they look like grass, let's call them grass, it's the ;pretty green stuff next to the house. I reckon the house is in better condition now than when I moved in. 

Then at work, I took a break from cleaning and got cooking.  Oh wait, why am I still cleaning stuff? Well what they don't tell you about professional cookery is that cleaning is a large part of the job.  Anyway today I pretty much cooked 5 out of 6 dishes on the menu. I'm pretty proud of that, granted one of the dishes was plain rice.  

I got home and there was a pile of dishes from my brekkie and lunch before I had to rush to work. Morning Michael had deferred the task to Evening Michael who is already tired from a full day of, yes I realised it, fucking cleaning.

I am most grateful to my best friend Lindy for helping me move.  Between the two of us we shifted 90% of my possessions over 5 or 6 car trips on the same day that I got the keys to the new place.  In fact, our cars were already loaded when we drove to the agent to collect  the keys. I'm very lucky to have such a friend. Thank you Lindy.

I looked at the refrigerator and thought hmm I think I am capable of moving this by myself. With the help of the trolley. After I had cleaned it first. That left the sofa bed as the last and most awkward piece of furniture. Again I am blessed with generous people around me, David from work offered to help me move the sofa with his muscles and his ute. I considered maybe I could transport it on the roof of my Subaru Outback, I'm glad I didn't try. It was hard enough with two men lifting it onto the back of a ute because of it's sheer size and weight,  It was no picnic either when we got to the new place, unsuccessfully we tried a few different ways to get it through the front door, In the end, we were able to get it in via the back door. But fuck that was hard. Thank you David. 

And here I am now. In my new home. A new start.  Oh what new memories can we make.