Packing, Sorting and More Packing!

Ambro 'helping to sort and pack'

Where did today go? And yesterday come to that? Everything is presently a mess of packing and sorting. How on Earth two people accrued so much 'stuff' is beyond us and we've decided never to do this again, how much material rubbish do we actually need. Given the huge amount we took to the recycling center and dump today, nowhere near as much as we had. It's cathartic... it's freeing.. it's hard work.. but we're strangely loving it! The thought of a completely new start, with one of each thing in life you need is working its magic.

As you can see from the image, even Ambro has been getting involved in the clearing out and sorting through things... usually by laying right on whatever you're trying to sort through!

On the upside, we've done almost all the cupboards, including the storage under the stairs, just that dang loft to go! How many Angelina Jolie magazines will we eventually have found do you suppose, we should start a blogging sweepstakes for closest guess lol So far we must have found / bought almost every magazine that woman has appeared in the cover of!! Oh and not forgetting Jennifer Connelly! Magazines are HEAVY! So needless to say we'll not be taking them all.. but do you know the pain involved in ripping the covers off magazines scrapbook styley? It's tough man!

Gadget Alert::: Ok so we did something mad this week, we each bought an iPod and we also bought this cool iPod Hi-Fi thing. You just clip your iPod into it and it rocks! Here's a link. We're taking it with us obviously and will probably use it as our main stereo system.. see.. we're getting into the digital groove, no more CDs laying around, we'll just buy off iTunes and store them on the Mac... putting them on the iPod for playing in the iPod Hi-Fi.

House Update... where are the contracts!! Australia Post.. you'd better not have lost them! Yes we sent them, they arrived in Australia on Saturday, but are still to arrive at the real estate agents! Fingers crossed on that for tomorrow.

There you go, apparently it's International Blogging Day today or something, so we've put in extra effort with a big update. Now if you'll excuse us, we have more things to sort through!

Yikes! Things Are Happening!!!!!

Like Ours But Not As cool!

Ok so we are scarily moving along with the process of heading to Australia now!
We received the contracts today for the house and land package and are in the stages of looking through them and returning them. From there, once the money has changed hand for the land, it's all go go go. The house will be getting built.
We've also definitely decided on the Kia Sportage and will be putting a deposit on it this week hopefully. The deal was indeed brilliant as we mentioned and it's going to be excellent driving around in it hopefully.

We got our flight tickets through already. They're on Singapore Airlines and we're going out on Sat 20th January. We arrive in Brisbane on 21st at like 7.30pm so we are hoping this will work out better as then we can go straight to bed and try to adjust our body clocks straight away. This should in theory cut down on jetlag, but who knows. The guy can bring the car straight to us, but we're thinking of just spending the night at a hotel near the airport and getting him to drive it there next day. This makes more sense as driving straight off that long flight might be kinda dumb.

Little Ambro is awaiting her import permit at the moment. We've decided to use Jets4Pets as they were the best quote and were also recommended by others who have used them. We are of course TERRIFIED at sending her on a plane all alone and then having to leave her in quarantine for 30 days, but this is nothing compared to leaving her behind so there's no option here. We couldn't do without her around. That's how we feel about all the family too, but sadly none are coming out at this time. Hopefully they will one day, or at the very least have extremely long holidays with us!!

Aside from Brisbane news, we have sold the Rover Streetwise and have also had a price on the Mini. On a completely unrelated note, we're going to Manchester on the 21st November to see Evanescence in concert and are totally looking forward to that.

The whole Australia thing is so scary but really exciting at the same time. We've got sooo much to do though and so little time. We are working constantly on writing and 'normal' work that it's impossible to find time to fit things in. We really need to get on with the packing but have sort of stalled again this week. We did get rid of all our gaming things though during the week, 2 xboxes, gamecube, dreamcast, LOADS of games and extra cool things like Steel Battalion and Samba De Amigo.. we only got like £750 for the lot. Totall crap but it saved hundreds of pounds worth of hassle in putting it all on Ebay and packaging it etc so can't complain.

Anyway, off to do yet more reviews and to probably then end up knackered and into bed!!!