Things are progressing though… actually quite fast. When we first saw our unit they had just pour the cement floor; the exterior walls were up and that was it. My first feeling was “how small” it was. Both the sales rep and Hubby, told me not to worry about it; it looked smaller without walls. WTF? Shouldn’t it look bigger? It’s empty, there’s nothing, and it looks small. Not good!
Then we went back and the framing for the walls was done (2 by 4). It didn’t feel much bigger to me. The men again reassured me. I’m excited about seeing the progress of it all, because after all we will be moving in for June 28th, but every time I go in, I can’t help to have this feeling of “smallness” about the place.
The model unit looks and feels so much “roomier”… it might all be in my head, my perception or an optical illusion because the are no walls as such yet…
When I look at the floor plans, it is about the same square footage as we have here, except that here we have a garage and a basement, which don’t count in our liveable space, but sure counts for accumulating things! (Which we did - we have so much shit, it's unreal!)
For those of you who are curious about our new pad, here’s the “original” floor plan. Let’s just say that we’ve made some significant changes to it.
The most changes we've done is to the kitchen. We tried to maximize the space we had. It took a lot of drawings and back and forth with the cabinet-maker, but we finally achieved something we both liked. Also on this plan, the washer and dryer are in the basement, in our unit they are on the main floor and I just noticed that the stairs are on the opposite wall… Anyway, this is just to give you an idea.
Yesterday we started moving boxes into the storage unit we rented. Since we don’t know how it will really feel we decided to get a storage place, so yesterday we did our first trip: boxes of books, cds, movies, photos albums and winter tires. It’s starting to feel like we are moving.
So between packing boxes, starting to make some address change, selecting paint colours, we decided to participate in this “Relay for Life”, a cancer fundraising event.
We just didn’t have enough on our plate!The Relay is an overnight non-competitive relay that celebrates cancer survivors and pays tribute to the lives of loved ones. It involves teams of 10 people who take turns walking, running or strolling around a track to raise money to support the work of the Canadian Cancer Society. It's a night of fun, friendship and fundraising to beat cancer. We will be doing it with friends, should be fun. If you’re interested in pledging me, let me know, and I’ll send you the link to do it online. Quick and easy!
That's why I haven't been around much... keeping busy as you can see!
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Send me the link and I'll try to make a small pledge. (You'll take my American money, rignt? Hee.)
keeping busy, indeed!
hopefully after you get rid of all your excess junk your new place won't seem so small. extra space is terrible for filling up with crap...of this, I know ;)
Hang in there.
Hats off to you for doing the relay deal!!!!
I hope things look bigger and better to you tomorrow.
lizgwiz: Thank you so much for wanting to contribute - I greatly appreciate it. I have good "blends".
kim: You got that right, more space = more things, that's for sure!
wreckless: I hope it's all optical, as the boys have been saying... Time will tell! Thanks.
like myself, you have been too busy for blogging. Shame on us both!
I was looking at the floor plans, and i though ''Hmmm, that looks small'' but looking at the proportion of the garage/cars, it actually seems quite roomy. Though, for all i know, those cars could just be artist interpretation and i could be talking nonsense!
Hey Stinky, I know you're busy, but if you have the time, You've been tagged. Consider it a work in progress and don't sweat it. Do it when you feel settled or not at all. I tagged you before I remembered your plate was full-that is what the tag is about-see me. Take care and respond if you can :)
My daughter works as one of the tent hosts for Relay for Life every year. She loves it. They have water and lollies for all the people supporting the runners/walkers, plus face-painting for kids. It's such a great thing to get involved with!
Yikes! SO many decisions for you. Good luck with all that!
p pigeon: Life does get in the way of blogging at times... We just have to cope! I'll let you know how it really is, once I'm moved in... as for the "artist's interpretation" if one of us should know about those, it should be you! he!
wreckless: I will get to it... eventually - anyway there are so many restaurants in Montreal it shouldn't be a problem! ;-)
dcmm: Thanks, these days I feel like I live in "a land of confusion, that's what the world is today... hey, hey!" at least my world! ;-)
i was part of a relay for life team two years ago and literally only three people from our team showed up to walk during their time slots. the team leader and myself ended walking from about 11 pm to 5am.
one twelve year old boy was walking on crutches because he lost his leg to cancer three years prior. every year he sets a goal to go further than the year before. that year he was walking 2 miles (ON CRUTCHES)
one of our team members (who has both legs) showed up and said she did not feel like walking because she had a COLD.
anyway, hope the new place is everything you want it to be and more!
princess: I hope we won't be having issues like you did with our team mates. That kid on crutches - that's what I call courage!
I'm hoping the same for our new place - but like you had said before I think it will be liberating, once we're settled in.
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