How Many Boxes Does It Take To Move A Life?

Well, the grand total was 17 big mail boxes (405 x 300 x 255 mm) 1 medium sized box (430 x 305 x 140 mm) and one mailing tube (90 x 850 mm)...with options for five more of the former...and possibly more if required later...

I think I've realised the cheapest and fastest way to move between towns, and even interstate for that matter...mail your stuff to yourself...abietly as well, this would only work if you didn't have furniture and/or whitegoods and/or anything that doesn't fold into one of the box sizes...but then again, there is a maximum size that AusPost will accept that is larger than the above sized boxes, as long as the maximum weight is no more than 20Kgs...and for the first box size, the maximum you will pay for each box (at 20kgs) is $33.75, anywhere to anywhere in Australia...! So, this is the story...

Called up a removalist company, and asked them to quote me on 11 of those first sized boxes (I was planning on mailing them already, hence the purchase and all that, but was unsure who was cheaper and faster...) I got the following..., "...Well, that'll be $440, if you're lucky enough to have a truck going that far north." "What does that mean?" "That means, if you're lucky, you might get your stuff there this week, or next, but you could be waiting up to two months for your boxes to arrive..." "Gee, that's a bit of a wait, any gaurantees that it'll arrive earlier?" "Nope, none whatsoever, like I said, only if we got a truck going up there."

Went to the PO later that afternoon, dropped off the boxes, and paid (including the mailing tube) $265...this was on Tuesday...

(One of the large boxes and the medium sized box were already sent up to Lee on Friday the week before, and arrived in on Monday afternoon...)

Craig has been gracious enough to send off the last five large boxes I had sitting in the house on Friday, and that cost him $100 to send up...

Those 11 boxes + 1 arrived in Thursday morning...TWO DAYS after I sent them off! I dare say I'll be recieving the other five tomorrow...

TL;DR 19 items from Bathurst to my new place, about 350Kgs, just under $400 in postage (plus another $50 for packaging) and recieved the bulk in two days after sending...thank you AusPost!

Got a phone call from the local PO on Thursday advising me that my stuff had arrived...and if I could, to please hurry and pick it up whenever, as long as it was that day itself...aparently I managed to take up most of the space out the back of the PO with my boxes (Sippy Downs PO is a small shop front, as opposed to the Bathurst one, which is an entire floor of a building...) :D

So, what else is new? Got a new pad, got a new girl, and sometime this week, will be getting a new phone number...home phone that is...

So, firstly, new house...nice little place, double story, a few things that need sorting out, but eventually will be alright, it's more or less enough for two, maybe four people to live in at most, but can fit about 14 comfortabally or 20 if you squish a little...no TV yet, trying to organise something via Lee's mate...and waiting for a call from ConnectNow to connect up a new phone, unless they can't offer me one...then I dare say I'll call up Optus and ask them about my options...might as well bundle everything together, get more of a discount...I know I've already described the stuff in the house already, but after finally moving in, I think it's a really great sized place...and it's close to the uni too...

Now, "new" girl...who would have thunk it, but Gracie is now officially spoken for...it was quite funny actually on Thursday, when we were sitting in the lounge room and she was like, "So, Jo (a mutual friend) and I were talking about you, and I was telling her that we were going out...she asked if you had asked me officially, and I said that you kinda did...and she insisted that you ask me out officially...:p" *laugh laugh laugh laugh* "Hehe, so, what do I say? Hey Grace, want to go out with me?" "Hehe, sure!" So, after that, we're officially together...taking things nice and slow, but yea, should be good...went out last night for Kay's 18th (one of Jo's flatmates at the university accomodation), and Grace and I were commented about on numerous occasions saying that we were "a cute couple"...could be taken in so many ways, but oh well, and we were talking about it earlier too...and she does fit just right into my arms and all...:D

As for Midget, he's gotten his house keys back, thanks to my representative, with a note asking for my $410 that he owes me...like hell if I'm allowing him to slap me with that bullshit $20 "wear and tear" fee thingy that he tacks on at the end...if he trys that shit, he's going to be answering near instantly to the tribunal...

And that was just freaky...the computers in the lab just shut down for the night...at the same time...I knew it was going to happen (there was a notice on my screen saying to hit "cancel" if I wanted to keep working), but all of a sudden having the room go from humming to quiet is a bit unnerving...especially on a Sunday night in a quiet building...

Kuang's left Australia too...shame...he was a good kid, and yea, definately, if I'm ever in Taiwan, I'll definatelly touch base with him...

*Sigh* it's now 2114, and I think I might head home quickly for some dinner....had some sausages earlier with Grace just before she went home after spending the day together, and made her some chicken and pasta soup last night too, which turned out well...then...either come back here or just stick around in the house...man, I really need to get a TV...or at least the internet hooked up...then things will be alright...:)

Be safe.

N