Posting sneakily from work

[rallamajoop]

The bad news
After waiting a full month for any real reply on that job I was interviewed for (despite being originally assured I'd get a reply within a week) I finally phone up again to be told they've decided... not to hire anyone. Some kind of story about how they've already taken on a couple of new staff lately for other positions and decided they had as many new people to break in as they could deal with right now. It's easy to look at it now and say I'm probably better off not working for a company who'll go through that much work to find new staff only to change their minds a month later about whether they wanted them in the first place, but it doesn't exactly negate the disappointment. -_- Man do I wish these places wouldn't keep leaving me hanging so long before finally giving me bad news at the end. It's been almost the exact same pattern with everywhere I've tried since I started looking for work, and the result is that the whole process is dragging out to the point of stupidity.

The good news
The move went well - so incredibly well we've been loudly congratulating ourselves on it ever since. We owe a lot of thanks for that to various family members and friends (namely alyssea, k_chan009 and especially Ken and Mel) for volunteering their help, moving-related advice, vehicle space, large muscles and/or Ikea furniture-assembling skills - the process would not have gone anywhere near as smoothly without them. Furniture is mostly sorted - between us, we were allowed to leave our family homes with three beds, two desks, a fridge, a table and chairs, a TV and other assorted bedroom furniture from home; and Ikea has filled in most of the remaining gaps (we had people assembling furniture in four different rooms at once at one point on Saturday XD). We got the new couches delivered on the same day too and have unanimously voted them the most wonderfully squishy and comfortable couches ever - people keep finding themselves gravitating back towards them at every opportunity. We've already got a giant bookcase worrying everyone slightly over its probable stability under the huge load of manga and novels we've stuffed it with and a glass kitchen cabinet almost entirely filled with Squeenix action figures. The fact I've actually moved out of the house I have lived my whole life in has barely sunk in yet, but we've already gone a long way to making the new place feel like home.

There are still a few odds and ends left to be filled in (I could use a bedside table and bookshelf, and some things pinneagig is buying off a work colleague have yet to make it over) and a mass of boxes to unpack, and it's taken two epic shopping trips to get hold of all the random odds and ends we need to fit out the kitchen and bathroom and all the rest. It's been very tiring (no coincidence that I spent Sunday morning in bed with a cold I'd been fighting off all week) and it's still not over yet, but the worst is done now. Giving ourselves the extra week between signing the lease and moving in really made all the difference as far as preparations went.

Still no Internet connection from the new house yet, nor even a good ETA to we'll be getting it. Hopefully this will be remedied before the withdrawl symptoms set in wholesale. I think we can all guess what this is likely to do to my resolve to waste less time on the web from work in the next week or so too. >.>

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[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Thanks, we may yet need to take you up on that (still so much fabric and sewing supplies to move from home - made a trip with our own car last night and barely dented what was left. ^^;)

BTW, if you haven't seen Iron Man yet we were planning to go see it on Friday night, like to join us?