I had some trouble this morning booking a moving truck. I left messages and emails for various companies and nobody got back to me. It's making me a little nervous. It kind of put me in a bad mood. I guess I wasn't very pleasant to deal with - according to the Raposos. Oops! I didn't mean to take it out on others. I have to be more conscious of that, I guess.
Anyway, Tristan helped me move a load of stuff in my car. He's been a great helper over the past two days. Then we went back home to meet Lur and Dave - they were just finishing up doing marriage prep work. I loaded up my car again, while they went to grab some lunch. They said they'd put some big stuff in Dave's SUV and would meet me at the place.
As I was unloading my car, there was an incident with a guy (and his wife) who live in the building next door to me. He was shooting a magpie with a beebee gun. The bird was injured, but not dead. The guy went back into his house when he saw me. A few minutes later, he came back outside with his wife and a cat. I confronted him about what he was doing, and he replied that he was killing a magpie. We had some words about it, and I told him I didn't think he should be killing wildlife. He didn't seem to care what I thought, and proceeded to tell his wife to let the cat finish the bird off the natural way. Obviously the cat didn't manage to kill the bird, either, so he went back inside. He came back out with a shovel and smashed the bird to death, then threw it into the dumpster. What kind of psycho goes around killing magpies because they're a nuisance? Is it even legal? Should I be worried?? What's your opinion? Anyway, I related the story to Lurline and Dave, and they were in agreement that the neighbours must be a little "off".
Lurline helped me clean and put stuff away. I scrubbed the bath tub for probably close to an hour to get it clean. This place needs an overhaul, but I think it's definitely going to look nice once I've got it fixed up. Dave, Tristan and I spent probably 30 minutes trying to figure out how to manoeuvre my sofa into the apartment. It was interesting to say the least. These old buildings don't really give you much room to bring in large items. This is the celebration of our ingenuity, and trust me, it really took some brain power and calculations. We're NEVER getting that sofa out of here again.
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