moved and getting settled

Hey guys,
Warning this may be a long one....

Finally an entry for you now that we are all moved. Well to begin with the move was a mission. The truck didn't turn up on sunday morning at 8.30am. Scott rung them at like 9am and the guy said his truck was broken down and to give him a couple of hours otherwise he would make a couple of trips with a trailer and a van. We were like yeh right we have to much shit to get transported in them...we have a 50" lcd tele alone!!! Scotts mum who was staying with us said ring him back and say dont worry do it monday. Scott phoned back and it turns out his truck was broken down in Auckland not Palmy like he made it out to be. Anyway Scott said for him to call us later and aim for monday.Meanwhile we are frantically looking for someone else to move us since we were all packed up. We got hold of one lady who unfortunately was unable to help us (been a long weekend and all) yet out of curiosity she asked us the name of the company. She was like 'ahhh ok, so what was his excuse his truck was broken?' She then informed us that they get many calls from people in the same situation as us who have orginally booked with this guy and he has let them down. Hes shady and have got warned to stay away from him.She said if his truck broke down all moving places actually hire a truck as a back up for those situations and that he should know that. We got thinking that he knows all those rules but couldnt be assed moving us since it was a long weekend. He never rung us back either nor did we to him.
Anyway we were lucky to find a moving company, lovely guy who came all the way from Levin. He even rustled up two workers been his bro and bro in law hehe. They cost nearly $300 more though and we have an invoice where we are going to bill the first dude the difference for dicking us around! So instead of getting at the other end at just after lunch on the sunday like we had planned we got there bout 4.30.

Sunday we were absolutley stuffed since we had been up at 6am to be all ready by 8.30. So the unpacking that took place was mostly kitchen stuff and we put up the bed. So crashed out that night. On the Monday i frantically tidied up the kitchen and dinning area since there was stuff for miles and then unpacked all my clothes, bathroom etc.So our house is looking good now just need to unpack last min nic nak things. The lounge is a lil messy but thats ok as we cant use tv yet as reception totally sucks is none at all otherwise it fuzzy as crap. So we are going to get sky tv to fix that prob. We figure its because whre we are in a valley and notice that our house and others around all have sky dishes on the roof.

James was also cool and took me around on monday to show me places I needed to go for interviews and tues and wed. He also showed me where the likes of briscoes and stuff like that is. Had to buy a lil mirror for our bathroom as it had none and got me couple of face clothes, hand towels, bathmat that we in need of. all on special too so thats good.

Tues my interview went good. a nice place so organised and very warm and friendly. The lady wanted me to sign there and then too as she was very impressed with me. I had other places to go to so told her id get back to her.
I went and visited a place that I already had an interview with last friday in palmy. The place was huge but i was a lil unsure of it.
Wed had an interview. Lovely german couple who own the centre. place was nice too.
Anyway last night i made my decision to work at the place I went to on tues. She was very pleased that i accpepted and said the staff gave good feedback about me after i left on tues. So today i went and signed the contract, got uniform and i start monday at 9am!!!!!!! Get a good pay and im classed as a head teacher which makes me in charge of the under two year old area, working with one other and a floater which is there when needed. So excited and looking forward to it.The people seem really nice that ill be working with. im prob the youngest which doesnt bother me. id say they all bout 30-50 years old maybe one other near my age. they also have a cook too for the centre that does yummy hot lunches by the sounds.

So all is going good, nice place, good flatty and got myself a job already!!! Fingers crossed its all good for long time too.

PS: Still have to use laptop to access this blog. One day ill get around to fixing it on my computer.

Ciao