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Live From The Land of Windmills, Wooden Shoes and Tulips!Archive for moving
Metres, Feet, Cubic and Square
Not even have I pressed ‘publish’ on my last post and I have RC on Skype trying to figure out if the van will be big enough and once again I have to highlight the whole cubic, square thing!
Oh oh oh RC just found a size estimator which says that this van should hold all my stuff…but I wonder how reliable it is?!?!
I so cannot wait until this is all unloaded in Holland.
Cloggie In Trauma (oh I mean Training)
My Worst Fears Have Come True
Super Friend came round today to help with the packing and we pretty much got everything upstairs cleared that isn’t staying till the end. However, when we took a load over to the storage space she started to look a bit hesitant and is not 100% sure that the big van is going to be enough. We looked at the van online that we are renting but between bad photos and conversions between metric, feet, cubic and square we got no closer to the answer. Our conversation went a bit like this:
SF: You just need to call the storage space and ask what size van you need for the room you have. I don’t know why you haven’t done this yet.
Me: Ummm, because I tried to email but there is no email address and then I tried to call but they were closed.
SF: Well then perhaps you need to try again. Think of all the man hours we have wasted trying to figure this out.
So I guess tomorrow I shall try calling them again and asking. No doubt they will tell me loads of information none of which I will understand at all.
Tonight I will begin the task of sorting through a pile of papers the majority of which I am sure can be shredded. Tomorrow I am letting my manager know that I am resigning as of Friday. I am sure she will not be best pleased as she will be stuck running the service but hopefully she will not attempt to kill me on the spot.
Off for some therapeutic shredding….
Cloggie In Training
No Nikes Allowed
Moving has now filtered into my dreams. I awoke this morning to realise I had been dreaming about my impending move. I don’t believe this is unusual but perhaps the issues surounding the move were.
1. The Dutch Goverment were not allowing any Nike’s to be brought into the country.
Now I am not a big fan of Nike however I do own a pair. So this was setting my mind at full speed about how I could sneak them into the country. On reflection I can still not figure out why this would have featured in my dream but I shall make sure to pack my Nike’s pretty deep in the suitcase.
2. I can not remember clearly but there was some hiccup in relation to me being able to move there properly or having to enter as a tourist for three months first. This therefore was causing lots of commotion about how many cars we would need to fill in order to secretly bring all my stuff over.
Now this is all to do with my big fear of having picked the wrong size van for moving. I do not have masses of stuff to bring (RC may disagree), no furniture minus one or two small things and no major appliances. However I am of the feeling that the largest size van is not going to be enough and that we should have rented the mini-truck. SF thinks I am mad and that I will have more than enough space in the large van as it is. However I do spend all of my driving moments staring at vans and mini-trucks trying to decide if my stuff will all fit in.
SF is due in about 45 minutes so I need to go and get some supplies for the day of packing….
Cloggie In Training
