Today my brother Evan (aged 29) moved into his first house with his girlfriend, Holly. Being the faithful younger brother I of course offered as much help as I could possibly muster. This meant a 7AM Start at Grandma’s house, as they had stored all their collective furniture in her garage. Grandma lives roughly 40minutes away in good traffic. 6AM on a Saturday morning is definitely good traffic.
I arrived roughly quarter to seven to find Evan and Holly waiting out the front in their car. Once inside Grandma greeted us with the full spread. This meant a vast array of Tea, Coffee, Toast of all shapes and sizes, jams of every variety – a veritable cornucopia. Not long after 7, Holly’s brother Ben arrived with a truck. Now there are trucks and there are TRUCKS. This was an example of the latter. The type of oversized thing you see carrying roughly $100,000 worth of ‘coca-cola’. By 8.00 everything was loaded onto the truck and into my car and Evan’s, and we were off. We bid Grandma farewell and headed off down the freeway. Grandma lives in Sylvania, while Evan has just bought his first home in Enmore. So a long trip up the Princes Highway and eventually we arrived at his house.
Between the four of us we managed to get all of Evan and Holly’s possessions stored away in two of the three bedrooms within 25 minutes. This of course lead to the undeniable and unavoidable thirst quencher, ‘Tooheys Extra Dry’. Being 9.05AM meant we were only able to justify this ‘champagne breakfast’ with “its midday somewhere in the world”. Not long after this we said farewell to Ben and he headed off to work for the day. Within five minutes of his departure George (one of Evan’s oldest and most loyal friends) arrived with Evan’s BBQ and a few other things, including Oscar, an Oscar fish about a foot long. Then it was of course time for another breakfast so off we headed to the local YEEROS vendor for some nutritious breakfast food (not). From here I decided it was time for me to give the help a bit of a break to go and see my lovely girl, Monica. She was down for one day only this week to try and find an apartment to move into this year while she studies BArts/BLaw at NotreDame University. For those of you who are familiar with Sydney’s geography, the trip from Enmore to Leichardt is nothing more than at most a 10minute drive. They are practically neighbouring suburbs. Today at 12:15PM this was not to be. It took me almost 50Minutes to take this short trip and upon arrival I found Monica and her mother had already finished inspecting in Leichardt and had moved on to Haberfield. So eventually I caught up to them and we were able to continue the search for an apartment together. Having driven from Port Macquarie, Monica and her Mum had missed the open house of most of the properties they wanted to see. The one we arrived at in Haberfield was an example of this.
Undeterred Gabby (Monica’s mother) and I decided the best way to continue would be to give someone else a buzz in their apartment and ask them would it be ok to have a look around their unit, assuming it was of a similar layout to the one we were hoping to see originally. Surprisingly enough, he agreed and in we went. It was beautiful. Massive rooms, beautiful layout – it was perfect. We jumped back in our cars and headed for the Real Estate Agent. We then tried to fill out an application for the apartment. At first the Estate Agent wouldn’t let us apply ‘sight unseen’. Bashfully we explained how kind one of the other tenants had been and so we were allowed to proceed with our application.
35mintues later and about 300words of complete sob story ‘im just a simple country girl in the big scary city wanting to study law and im so very quiet’ we were done. Back to Evan’s for me!
Evan decided the only way he would be able to move into this new house was if he began the onerous task of sanding the floors. So naturally the first day they arrive there Evan’s off to Kennards Hire and picks up a belt sander (a large floor sander pictured below). The sandpaper to go on the machine is $6 a sheet. This fact only becomes important when we try and start sanding only to have the machine destroy the sheet of paper and shoot it out to land at our feet. So we destroyed 5 sheets of paper in total today and managed to actually sand with one.
A few hours later it was getting dark so the sanding stopped and there was nothing left for me to help with so I headed home and Evan and Holly went off to bed.
So here to great beginnings in serious Blog Writing! Of course always good for a laugh you might want to check out http://thinkingthinkers.blogspot.com/ I would recommend starting from the very bottom of the page and scrolling up one post at a time as the most recent post goes to the top.
Sincerely,
Cam
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