Elbow Grease
Teaching July 2nd. 2008, 10:00pmToday we signed for the apartment. We are now full fledge Korean home owners! We’ve got the keys and the deed to prove it, as well as a bank loan for the remainder of the apartment price looming over us for the next few years. Yay! DEBT!
We walked into the realtor’s office after cobbling all the different bank accounts we had been keeping out money in and signing lots of large bank notes. There was a lawyer there to mediate the payment, partially because the money from my last apartment’s deposit hadn’t gotten returned to us yet, and the realtor had to put up part of our cash so we could pay for the apartment. We will get the remainder of our cash in the next week, and we’ll repay the loan the realtor floated us for covering the week while we wait for the money.
We went to the apartment to check out all we needed to do. Any naive hope that we wouldn’t need to paint was quashed when we realized that the door frames and the doors were DIFFERENT COLORS. What the hell? Anyway, we also found some wet wood rot in the bathroom that will require the door frame to be replaced by the people doing some of the interior for us.
I’ve got to finish teaching classes, go home and paint, then wake up the next day, paint some more, run to class, teach, then go home to paint a second coat.
Then from there, for the rest of the week, we get the replacement work done on the damage we discovered, work on cleaning up from the mess from the wall paper and floor install, then get ready for the lighting people. Then WE move in, and spend the ENTIRE day getting moved over to the new place. No time off. No vacation days to move. Nothing but pure elbow grease, luck, and some cooperation.
The my friends arrive from the USA. I go on vacation for a week, and return when the new intensive classes are about to start. July is going to be non-stop CRAZY.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 12:55 am
Ummm…do you want me to bring a mop or something?