"Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen" (distraxi)
10/16/2020 at 18:35 • Filed to: Life stuff
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"Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen" (distraxi)
10/16/2020 at 18:35 • Filed to: Life stuff | 6
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After two and a half years of living in a furnished rental apartment since our actual apartment !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , while we !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! out of town and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and waited for the old place to get fixed s o we could sell it (still not done: the fight with the insurers continues)...
...last weekend we finally moved into our “permanent” home. The photo above (plus a bit more junk in the back of the Pajero) is the total of our accessible possessions for the last couple of years: the rest’s been in storage.
Unfortunately the house we’re finally moving into isn’t quite complete - we had to give the landlord 3 months notice and a couple of renovation delays (thanks, Covid) meant we misjudged the timing of that. So we only have power in two rooms, heating is a fan heater, the bathroom and toilet are outside, and the kitchen’s a microwave. But at least we’re no longer paying rent, and with a bit of luck I’m only a few weeks from moving a house load of crap out of the shed and turning it into the man cave it was built to be. At which point, project car!
shop-teacher
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
10/16/2020 at 18:47 |
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Things are turning for the better then!
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Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> shop-teacher
10/16/2020 at 19:04 |
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Yup. As long as we don’t get too badly screwed by the insurers on the old place, and I still have a job in 6 months (both of which are very much open questions), we may be back to a “ normal” l ife sometime soon. Which I’m hanging out for - I’m seriously over the transient lifestyle .
Fortunately the housing market in NZ is going crazy due to interest rates dropping through the floor, so while having two mortgages is no fun from a cashflow perspective, at least they’re cheap mortgages and we’ll recover the exp ense when we can finally sell the apartment.
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> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
10/16/2020 at 19:05 |
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Things are looking up! Living out of basically two rooms will be difficult but it'll be worth it!
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shop-teacher
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
10/16/2020 at 19:07 |
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Good luck with it all!
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Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
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10/16/2020 at 19:09 |
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It’s not too bad; we’ve been doing it weekends all the way through the renovation, and at least now we have power and the we ather’s s ta rting to warm up. Having to go outside to use the bathroom at 4am in midwinter was no fu n at all.
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> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
10/16/2020 at 19:12 |
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Reminds me of when my home was being renovated and my whole family lived out of a few rooms. Pretty close quarters but it was memorable. Well, considering I was very young and still remember it it must have been.