I am about to eat my fifth pizza in the the past two weeks…
I think I usually eat pizza about once ever six months or so, but this moving biz just leaves things like time and kitchen availability so unpredictable that sending Nog out for a pizza for us to share seems like the quickest and most economical way for us to have something resembling a hot meal. This also includes the “pre-moving” period after the kitchen had been packed up and we were tired of sandwiches (though I guess a pizza really is just a fancier version of cheese on toast).
I thought our pizza days were behind us as we now have a fairly well-stocked fridge and most of the kitchen cupboards have been cleaned and organised. In fact, I made a lovely carbonara for lunch yesterday. But then the handyman came back today to do a few jobs, which meant me hobbling off to the hardware store to get this & that (Nog was out teaching), which took up most of the morning, and then there were some minor kitchen repairs that left that room unusable for another couple of hours… so more pizza.
But I have to say that the place is really coming together. It’s great that the landlords have sent the handyman over to make sure everything is in good working order. Apparently he has to come back tomorrow to take care of a few other things, and then we’ll be pretty much set up and it will just be a matter of UNPACKING.
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Heh!
I like your use of the word “just” in “just be a matter of UNPACKING”
Still – I’m glad it is taking shape.
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Well, today the handyman fixed the kitchen drawers, so starting tomorrow we’ll have more than a couple of forks and spoons to use… that is, *after* I unpack and wash all the cutlery. This would all be so much easier without a sprained ankle.
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Yeah, unpacking is worse than packing I think. Good luck with that!
At least you’ll be well fuelled on all that pizza.
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Hard to say which is worse. I’ve already thrown out a bunch of stuff that never should have been packed in the first place, but there just wasn’t time to organise stuff properly.
Ufff, I really don’t want to see another pizza for a very long time.
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Have you determined if your stove/oven are in working order? It was over a month before they were able to repair my oven after we moved in.
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The cooker works okay – not great. I can’t tell if it’s because there’s something wrong with it or that’s just the way it is. The burners take forever to get hot though, and never really seems to get HOT. Haven’t tried the oven yet – should probably turn it on at least to make sure it works.
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The presence of a handyman seems like a good omen to me.
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I quite agree… and a handyman who isn’t ancient and wheezing as the one you mentioned attempting to fix your windows in the old place.
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They seem to have a regular guy who has a small team of workers, so it’s all quite professional and – unlike Pepe – don’t try to just get the best deal. Yeah, I remember that poor old guy, who told me he never would have agreed to do the job if he’d known what a terrible state the doors were in. He said it was “trabajo feo” (ugly work) because it was impossible to do a good job on them.
The guy who’s been doing most of the “touch up” handyman stuff here since I moved in is called Miguel and is quite nice. He’ll be back either today or tomorrow to finish a couple of jobs and that should be it.
It’s great having landlords who *want* to keep the place up, and I think they appreciate that I was looking for a home, not just a place to live, so I’ll treat it like it’s my own and maintain it well.
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