10.10.04
New Apartment Pikchurs!
The moment I know you’ve all been waiting for… pictures of the new apartment (plus a couple from the room we stayed in in Bobs house)! I missed out a couple of pictures of a few things, like the second double bedroom, the balcony, and the oh-so-exciting storage cupboards… I guess we’ll save those pictures for a rainy day. 
So yeah…. the apartment is great! We’re smack-dab in the middle of everything… work, gyms, cinemas, theatres, shops, clubs, pub, bars, restaurants, convention centre, indoor arena, sea-life centre, old-school ghettos… it’s all within 10 minutes easy walking distance! 
We’ve also signed up at one of the local gyms, and a trainer has even worked out a nice schedule of death for me. How handy.
I’ve just finished my second week at work, and so far things are going swimmingly. I haven’t broken anything (well… nothing big ;-)), and everyone else there is really helpful and friendly. Hanne is now looking for work, and she’s already been invited to an assessment centre on the 28th! Although i’ll miss having someone to cook and clean for me and be at my every beck and call, I think it would be better for her to start a different job to keep her from going insane. Besides… there’s always the weekends!
So far life here in Brummingham has been pretty hectic, and this weekend was the first chance we’ve had to just sit back and relax. We only moved in two weeks ago, at which point Hanne’s parents came over to help move the rest of her stuff (driving all the way over from Norway!), then the following weekend Bob and Ben invited Jim and I to IPL’s (that’s the company they work for) all-expenses-paid 25th birthday party! And, of course, all the time in between I spent working. Oh yeah… Amit popped by this evening on the way up to Cheshire, where’s he’s having 3 cushy weeks of training (while staying in a hotel, all paid for by his employer of course!), so we went out to Pizza Express (in the words of Hanne: nam nam nam!!)
Anyway… that’s about it for now. I can’t think of any interesting stories of anything that’s happened to us since we’ve moved, but i’ll try to make something happen for next time. I’ve also gotta start carrying my camera around with me more so I can add more pictures to the gallery, coz a picture speaks a thousand words, which saves me lots of writing time! So, until next time, adieu!
PS Still looking for bloggers in Birmingham to start a new Metblog city!
PPS He’s a cheat!
ferdinand said,
October 11, 2004 at 7:27 am
AWESOME apartment!! It’s a million times better than my place! Glad to hear your job is going well.
mamguandtaid said,
October 11, 2004 at 10:31 am
far cry from the orange box and a pouffe we started off with! Very, wery nice and very happy for you both
Jacques said,
October 11, 2004 at 10:50 am
“Jim and me”, not “Jim and I”. (see: hypercorrection)
I really like that apartment, and will be quite jealous until I move into Three Thousand Sage. Well, I am jealous, except for the white fluffy thing in the middle of the living room. What is that? Did you kill something?
As for the Bush jacket thing: who would wear a transmitter box between their shoulderblades anyway? How would it be held in place? And even if he did do it, why would he pick such an obvious place to put it? I’d at least put it on my side, stomach, crotch, inner thigh, sock, etc. There’d be much more intellgient places to hide it. He may not be the brightest bulb in the box, but someone rigging him to cheat would have thought of that.
Anyway, Kerry will cost a certain translation company and it’s president too much in taxes, so I am gonna have to go Bush this year (sorry — must look out for #1 here). Does it matter? Not really : Texas is not a swing state.
GaZ said,
October 11, 2004 at 12:21 pm
RE “Jim and I”: D’oh!
RE Bush cheating: true
RE Bush taxes: hehe… fair enough, but if everyone thinks like that then nothing will ever change, will it?
Hanne said,
October 11, 2004 at 12:47 pm
RE white fluffy thing: It’s a sheepskin rug that came with the apartment… Not my favourite thingy either to be honest.
Hesam said,
October 11, 2004 at 4:03 pm
Kill white fluffy! Kill white fluffy!
Lina said,
October 11, 2004 at 8:21 pm
Wow, your place is so nice! Way more than I expected…it looks so new, or is it just renovated or something? “It’s faaaabulous daaaahling!”
Gaz said,
October 11, 2004 at 10:56 pm
Hey I wouldn’t bet on that thing being a sheep… I think it’s the last remaining fur of a lesser-spotted brummie polar-bear!
Hesam said,
October 12, 2004 at 12:13 am
Kill brummmie! Kill brummie!
ferdinand said,
October 12, 2004 at 12:07 pm
You killed brummie!! You bastards!!
TheBlog said,
October 16, 2004 at 11:49 am
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