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One year anniversary
29 Dec 2022 11:15 amWe landed in Beirut late at night on the 28 of December last year, so we have officially been here one year. My, how time flies. Only three more years to go, four if J decides to take early retirement.
Our kids are at Araya Pine Park this morning, a place friends took us to within a week of our arrival, so there are more echoes of a cycle completed.
I hope that we don't make "moving" a part of the anniversaries from here on out. :P
We now have most of the furniture in the new flat. We left space free in front of the windows and then sent a message to the landlady's son to say that we had done so to leave free access to the cleaning lady. He replied, "Oh, I thought she was done. I saw her doing the windows."
Knowing that pictures speak louder than words, I went back over to the flat this morning and took some photos. He wrote back that he has contacted a cleaning company to get a quote. :P
We shall see how things proceed, but if I can keep from cleaning the windows myself* or having to pay someone to do it, I will be very happy.
I am already going to have to do the kitchen sink**, baseboards, re-clean the floors, clean the kid's bathroom that she didn't do (because we put our stuff in the adjacent bedroom and locked the door), and clean out the built-in closets in our bedroom, which she failed to do. Oh, and the terrace that runs the length of three sides of the house, plus the stairs down to the street... And of course, I have to top-to-bottom clean the flat we are currently in.
My body continues to flirt with "blah," and today, my headache is pretty bad (painkillers are in my immediate future). The chest stuff remains only a tickle and an occasional cough. The nebulizer and essential oils seem to be doing the trick of keeping the crud from fully forming. Only three more days to go.
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*Windows are never fun, but I will share photos, and you will see why these particular windows are Absolutely-Diametrically-Opposed-to-Fun.
** If we don't have plumbing issues from the amount of dirt, grit and filth the cleaning lady put into that sink, I am going to be very surprised.
Our kids are at Araya Pine Park this morning, a place friends took us to within a week of our arrival, so there are more echoes of a cycle completed.
I hope that we don't make "moving" a part of the anniversaries from here on out. :P
We now have most of the furniture in the new flat. We left space free in front of the windows and then sent a message to the landlady's son to say that we had done so to leave free access to the cleaning lady. He replied, "Oh, I thought she was done. I saw her doing the windows."
Knowing that pictures speak louder than words, I went back over to the flat this morning and took some photos. He wrote back that he has contacted a cleaning company to get a quote. :P
We shall see how things proceed, but if I can keep from cleaning the windows myself* or having to pay someone to do it, I will be very happy.
I am already going to have to do the kitchen sink**, baseboards, re-clean the floors, clean the kid's bathroom that she didn't do (because we put our stuff in the adjacent bedroom and locked the door), and clean out the built-in closets in our bedroom, which she failed to do. Oh, and the terrace that runs the length of three sides of the house, plus the stairs down to the street... And of course, I have to top-to-bottom clean the flat we are currently in.
My body continues to flirt with "blah," and today, my headache is pretty bad (painkillers are in my immediate future). The chest stuff remains only a tickle and an occasional cough. The nebulizer and essential oils seem to be doing the trick of keeping the crud from fully forming. Only three more days to go.
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*Windows are never fun, but I will share photos, and you will see why these particular windows are Absolutely-Diametrically-Opposed-to-Fun.
** If we don't have plumbing issues from the amount of dirt, grit and filth the cleaning lady put into that sink, I am going to be very surprised.