So moving home has proven to be a little more of a challenge than we expected, mainly because it is so unusual for people from Burlington to move away that no one seems to know what to do with us. Thought I might vent a few of our issues
Mortgage
- Peter spent 3 days on the phone trying to get a mortgage. Apparently we have not been earning any recognizable income for the last 5 years even though Peter has been working for multi -national companies. Huge waste of time. In the end we were able to get one, thankfully!
Keys to the house
- Get the keys, start to move in – oh the old owners are still here, they think they have till 6pm to move out
- No big deal but want it on record that we are not in the house, we call the lawyer and real estate agent who calls their lawyer and real estate agen and the woman gets pissed off and is all offended that we would dare move in before they are ready, etc, etc, etc. Too bad we are moving in anyway!
Phone and internet
- Randomly the phone line would cut out, call the technician and it would magically be working again
- Had a technician come out to the house to find that our line is buried in water and therefore doesn’t work sometimes
- Technician ran a new line and all appears to be working fine, except the line runs through a tree at the front of our house and will not be buried until spring – ghetto looking
- Answering machine would not work so I took the phone back and replaced it
- Still does not work, called the technician figure it is a problem with the line, no it is just a bad choice apparently it means that out of all the phones we could pick this one is not compatible with a digital phone – fantastic
- Had to buy a new phone, works fine, thankfully
- Got a phone number so we could call long distance for a cheaper rate, couldn’t call within Canada for some reason – that is now fixed
Cable T.V
- Same issue with the cable line as the phone
- We bought a cable box off a friend and it did not work with our cable for some reason.
- Called the technician and they had no idea how to fix it so they sent out a technician
- He was baffled as well
- Finally called in our expert Patto who seemed to get it up and running
- Yippee we can watch T.V
- Wanted the cable box so we can record programs, that does not work
- Pat figures we needed a new remote so we get it and try it
- Of course the by the time we get the remote the cable is no longer working again
- Finally figure out we need a new hard drive in the recorder - everything is now working great, I love to watch T.V with no commercials
Appliances
- Ordered appliances to be delivered just after we moved into the house
- Finally got everything in on Christmas Eve
- Ordered Gas and have yet to be able to get the 'guy' in to hook up the gas so stove is sitting in a box in the kitchen, Dryer is ready to go but does not work, looks nice though, Microwave is in the garage waiting to install stove so we can install microwave above the stove.
- Freezer is on back order – still
Shipment
- Followed up on our shipment from New Zealand once we got to Canada. It had not even left the warehouse yet.
- Finally got them shipped on a boat with a confirmation of when they are meant to arrive, got the email saying what we need to get it through customs and find out we were never given the forms that we need in order to clear customs
- Had to drive to the airport (hamilton thankfully) to clear customs, showed up with all the items they said I needed, apparently that was not enough so had to go back and do it all again.
- On second trip to the airport put my credit card in to park in the lot and then when I was ready to leave I could not get out of the lot, apparently all the machines were down. Had to go back into the airport and find someone to let me out of the lot, good times
- Crate came on Monday Dec 14th, shipped on July 23rd crazy, 5 months – ridiculous
- Good news, only one bowl broke and a Tupperware cracked. Peter should go into the packing business he did a good job.
- Sprague did a fantastic job drilling the crates shut so tight with screws that it did not dare pop open, a bit of a mission for Peter to take out but they held for the long journey.
Car
- Fantastic car, Peter did a great job
- Has a navigation system and you can not set the clock on it, all manuals tell you to press a button that we do not have in our car
Furniture
- Ordered furniture from Lazy boy, supposed to bring a couch, loveseat, 2 chairs, rug and 2 pillows
- We got 2 chairs and 2 pillows, that are the wrong ones – more phone calls
- Finally got the couch and loveseat with no more problems
- Got another call from Lazy boy that they were coming to deliver more items, we were expecting 2 more chairs and a rug. The guy says I have 2 tables for you - no thankyou never ordered those - send them back
- The saga continues
So there have been a few issues as we try and get settled but we are looking ok now.
Baby is due in 6 weeks so we are working on getting ourselves organized so that we dont have to do too much sorting out when the baby comes and can just enjoy and get used to the sleepless nights again.
Lucas is enjoying himself and is so happy to be around his Granparents he is always asking about them and wants to call or go and visit so it was a good move even though the craziness is following us. Lets hope the new baby brings some sanity to our lives
A quick note, baby brain has struck and I accidentally put our camera in the washing machine so new pictures may be slow coming - oops
