Condo: Day Two

Well today went much better. The property management had arranged for temporary keys for parking so when I arrived this morning I was able to get to my space. It's not a bad space either, although it's very deep in the building, P4. But it exit into a the out lane and it should be easy to back into. I remember my friend Jeff's parking space was 1km into the basement. I'll have to measure mine, I bet it's close.

I do for see one problem. Leaf games. Leaving or arriving when a game is on could be very slow as I must pass through public parking before getting to resident parking.

Now to the condo, I'm feeling much better to day. I got up there and I got to do work on the place. My parents came down from London to help out. I realize now the fact that the builder hadn't been in to clean up was probably a good thing. I would have had to clean everything in the place anyway, it's best if it's just done by the person who cares about it.

So I assumed all the appliances. The fridge was the most fun, and it's enormous. You could stash a couple of people in there. Given the amount I use my current fridge, I suspect there will be a lot of open space.

I vacuumed then wiped down most of the kitchen cupboards. After a brief laps where I was cleaning the floor first, I quickly remember, it's best to start at the top. The amount of dust and saw dust on things was incredible. But you really didn't notice it until you wiped it off because it was so evenly distributed.

Next I got to plug in the stove. Lots of fun plugging in that giant plug. But those things scare me too, so I threw the breaker before doing it.

The appliances are all black, and they look really nice now that all the dirt is washed off them.

My Dad worked on cleaning the baseboards, the balcony and the windows. You can now see out the windows. There is still a fair bit of paint on them in places. Paint was splattered on everything. Fortunately it came of easily in most cases. My mom worked on the bathroom, and it looks great too. She also brought down some nice towels which match the bathroom quite well. They also had a bamboo moniker on them, which is funny because I'm thinking of getting bamboo hardwood floors in a year or two.

finally, to end the day we went to IKEA to look around and pickup my bed. I was disappointed to learn IKEA didn't to the free dinner with $150 or more purchase, but we had a good dinner there anyway. After doing the wonder through we picked up the bed in the warehouse. It's interesting how a simple queen sized bed comes as 6 separate boxes and bags, spread over two different aisle and 3 different bins. The bed side table was one box in one bin.

Where I was feeling dread last night, now I'm looking forward to getting back there tomorrow to do more.

Pictures: first is the living room through to the balcony, second is bedroom window, third is bathroom, as if that wasn't obvious, and the forth, as I've been lead to understand, is the kitchen.