Team-building exercise

That's what it felt like we were doing when O and I decided to flip around the doors on our new fridge so that they opened in the opposite direction. It was such a pain to do, but it would have just bothered me otherwise since it only made sense to have them go the other way. So there was much unscrewing and prying out pieces of plastic and flipping around and then screwing things back in. We kinda gave up on the instructions after awhile and just figured it out on our own, especially due to the instructions having no words on it so they could "work" in whatever language was spoken in whatever country the fridge has just been purchased in. All there was was diagrams with a bunch of arrows supposedly indicating "unscrew this" or "pull out this" with numbers indicating the order in which you were supposed to do it. In the end the diagrams just looked like they were depicting weird air flows around the doors of the fridge, or complicated, yet funky, dance moves to be done by floating screws. So it was best for O and I to just put on our thinking caps and sort it all out ourselves. We made it through without any argument breaking out, and had some humourous moments, so I think it was a success. And I ended up a happy camper with fridge doors that open the right way.

Our stuff arrived to the new house early in fact, so no sitting about for hours. We were on our way there when the delivery guys called and asked where we were. Apparently, since it was a Friday, they were eager to get through their deliveries as fast as possible and head home early. And damn, if only those guys were for rent for when we move. They hauled the fridge and washing machine up two flights of stairs as if they were just plastic shells of appliances.

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Update on The Big Move:

The packing is winding down and the house is full of boxes and crap laying about. Tomorrow is The Big Move. It hasn't really hit me yet that tonight is our last night here. We've been in this house for almost 3 years, in which time a lot has happened. I'll miss it, though yeah, there are a lot of things I'm looking forward to in the new place. We hope to have internet by Monday, otherwise I guess I won't be online again til I return to work Tuesday.