Slow down, you move too fast.
You got to make the morning last.
Just kicking down the cobble stones.
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy.
Ba da, Ba da, Ba da, Ba da...Feelin' Groovy.
Thanks, everyone!
It's just dawn... Felicity is sitting on the window ledge trying to figure out how to get the Mynah bird sitting outside on the ledge... My wife just left for the airport to return to Japan to finish up to legal work for the condo sale, and I'm off to learn my new address so we can tell the shippers where to send our stuff!
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Originally Posted by orlok
Congrats! A quick description of the new abode would be nice.
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15th floor of a 16 floor condominium, magnificent views out the windows, (Biiiig windows!) two bedrooms (we couldn't find a single bedroom place anywhere, only fully furnished 1-room studios or 3-4 bedroom houses,) large living room, kitchen with actual counter space (after years of Japan's 14" of counter space I don't know what I'm going to do with it all,) semi-furnished with king sized bed, L-shaped sofa and two arm chairs, several cabinets, built-in closets, two full baths,
both with hot water (not usual in Thailand,) hardwood floors (typical in Thailand) swimming pool, maid service, wi-fi, 2 TVs with cable, 24-hr security desk with video security on all floors and parking garage, key-card entry to the elevators, convenience store and restaurant on the ground floor, and a 4 minute walk along a street lined with restaurants to a four-floor shopping mall. Roughly $100 under what I had budgeted for.
Photos today if the sun comes out later.
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Originally Posted by VydorScope
Was it the condo you mentioned?
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Yes, the owners are the parents of my friends who own the Pro photo shop.
Except for the nutty insanity of the Japanese bureaucracy at the beginning of this move, everything... and I mean everything.... went so smoothly it was almost comical. Now I'll stay here in the hotel for the next two days while the building's maintenance crew cleans the places and polishes the floors, then I'll move our stuff from the hotel into the new home. I'm ready...
And... as it's now almost 7am and the restaurant downstairs is opening and getting ready to make tea, I'm gonna go and drink some! Then it's off to the bank to open an account, off to the 'rubber stamp' maker to get our address made into a stamp. Then I think I'll visit one of the temples and offer up some prayer. It never hurts to say thank you. And then perhaps just relax and read for the rest of the day.
Let the morning time drop all it's petals on me.
Life, I love you,
All is groovy
Stitchawl