Time Blurred.

Last Sunday morning I woke up feeling ill.  Physically ill.  I had not slept well (baby sick, so up half the night) and had woken before 06H00 concerned about the house.

We then made the decision to contact both PODS and our removalists to see if they come move the dates forward.  In the mean time, we went into overdrive and started packing the PODS in the off chance that they could.

They could.

Monday was a blur at work and at home and on Tuesday morning the PODS guy came to pick up the PODS and drop it off at the house.  Then it was a made dash back to the rental property to pack as much stuff as we possibly could for the movers that were now coming 10 days early.

Wednesday started with me finding our eldest child had left her car door open the night before (my car) and the battery was dead enough to stop the car starting... then finding out that when I had added my (second) car to my RACV portfolio, nobody had gone about asking if I wanted roadside assist on that vehicle (too).  So I took out roadside assist over the phone and waited the 90 minutes for the guy to arrive (he got there early as was there for like 2 minutes...).

We then found out that the booking alteration hadn't been 'locked in' with the removalists...and we started to...worry.  They said they were putting together a team and they'd be there about 4 hours late.  Eep.

Well... what a pleasure.  The team lead from Metro Movers was damn good.   I've moved house well over 30 times in my life... and it is not often that I've seen a guy go that little bit further in service.  Sorting out the balance of the fridge... holding the sideboard up so that my wife could fit protection to the base - after actually asking us if we wanted to put something on it to protect the wooden floors!  They put down blankets everywhere and did a good job.

So now we're in... trying to survive without taps in half the house.  We finally got a quote from UEH on Friday for the damage and stolen items, but now we have to get approval from the group insurer before UEH will do the work... so even more delays.

And then there's the fencing saga...but I'll leave that for another day.

This week has us deal with Telstra and FTTH...