[Miscellaneous] Moving sucks part 3

Well, moving still sucks. This whole process is really starting to take the mickey; I naively thought that it would be relatively simple, but I'm starting to realise how lucky I was with all of my previous moves. Each time I had people to help me, and I was moving in with other people so there were bodies around. This time it's a completely different story, and I'm starting to get a bit fed up. Admittedly it's only been a week since I got they keys, and a busy week at that. It's also been stressful.

First orders of business were to sort out a washing machine and bed & mattress! The former was relatively simple. I bought it online from Currys, and included the installation option. £25 seemed like a reasonable price for having a professional install the washing machine for me, although next time I think I would probably just do it myself. The £10 extra for a specific 4 hour delivery window rather than the standard 12 hour window also seemed like a bargain! So that all went swimmingly this morning.

The bed was another matter. When my Mum was up visiting recently we went to Ikea and found a bed and mattress combination that I both liked the look of and found comfortable. Unfortunately it turned out that Ikea were just about to bring in a new range of sprung mattresses, and were out of stock of the one I wanted at both Coventry and Birmingham. I checked the Milton Keynes branch but they wouldn't deliver to my address. Now I could have bought a mattress somewhere else, but Ikea uses European bed sizes, and the standard double is both slightly wider and longer than a UK double! So a mattress from elsewhere wouldn't fit properly. D'oh. Buying a bed somewhere else also looked like being more expensive, not to mention that I couldn't find one that I liked as much as the Ikea one. 

Eventually I gave up decided to take advantage of Ikea's 90 day return/swap policy on mattresses, and bought the bed and a latex mattress (which is actually turning out to be very comfortable) last Friday morning. It was delivered that afternoon, but I then travelled up to Glasgow for the weekend for the Scottish Nationals, so could only start building it on Sunday night. It took me three days to build the damn thing; I didn't want to be building too late into the night owing to the noise, and it's really needs two people, so I had to get creative. Not to mention the fact that I realised after I'd built the slats that they were so thick that the position of the supporting structure was too high, and the mattress would just slide off the bed! But I do, as of Tuesday, have a bed to sleep on. Three nights on the floor, then two nights on a mattress on the floor make you really appreciate a proper bed!

I have a new appreciation for beds after the last week or so. Soooo nice and comfy. (Credit: livingitup.co.uk

Then there was the injury I did myself last week. I was stupidly carrying my new microwave by the handles on the cardboard box. Naturally they broke between my car and the front door of the block, and something smacked me hard in the mouth. Whether it was the microwave itself as I stumbled and tried to catch it, or my fist, or the bits and bobs I'd piled on top I don't know. But the outcome was that at 9:30pm I took about a third of one of my lateral incisors off. It didn't hurt to start with, but over the course of the evening gradually got more and more painful, which was a bit of an issue as I couldn't get NHS 112 to give me any sort of help at all. I spent about three and a quarter hours in the end waiting for the Coventry emergency out of hours dentist to call me back and got nowhere. Eventually I asked them to give me some addresses for Coventry dentists, and tried to check them out the next morning. Except that two of the four were children only! I did eventually find a dentist, though they're not amazingly close to my flat, and got a filling put in. We'll see how it goes.

So it's been a bit of a saga really. I've got another month of storage too whilst I sort everything out, which is an expense that I wasn't counting on, so that's nice. I really hope that it gets better eventually.