Moving: the consequences

or Why I hate moving...

The trip to Ikea has been productive, but exhausting... So many people: it seems that the whole New Jersey population goes there on sundays.

It's been 3 weeks and I don't completely feel at home yet. A lot of work (painting, re-do the bathroom) has been done but it's still not finished.So almost every night we have contractors staying here until midnight. Nice people but quite loud.So it's either we have dinner in while they're here or we go out and when we come back we have to wait for them to finish their work for the evening.Plus sometimes they cancel without notice... Very frustrating. They were supposed to finish tonight, but I don't think they will. At least one more night... They always have an excuse not to work at the week end :-(

Elise has been decorating the apartment in the meanwhile and it looks really good now. The place is bigger than the previous one, and cheaper (thanks Harlem), so it is still very promising. Hopefully all the problems will be fixed soon.

Among other disturbances:
-the Internet is broken, so I have to sneak into the neighbor's intermittent connection. I can't post pictures until this is repaired...
-the heating for the building has not been switched on yet. They made a few attemps, but it smelled so bad (they were strong fuel odors in all of the apartment) that they had to stop it. It's now winter weather and pretty cold outside... Pretty cold inside too at times...