Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Tired!

The day of packing followed by cleaning, late into the night has left
me exhausted! Back to work today! The final stretch!

Due to stress and being busy i never posted about the house sale
falling through... We are now offering the house for rent at £699 per
month. This leaves us a bit short of funds to finance Korea but we
can do it! We have to do it... And we are doing it, NEXT WEEK!!!

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Monday, 20 February 2012

packing!

today's highlights!

Packing!

Thursday, 16 February 2012

The wait continues

Still waiting for the exchange!

It seems endless I really just want to get this done and a date for
completion, to be able to book my ticket and get there!

At this rate i am going to have to get a bus from the airport
straight to work!

Another thing i am looking forward to doing is to break this cycle of
falling asleep putting the kids to bed then waking during the night
unable to sleep! I used to wake at 5 i am now waking at midnight,
crazy!
I think this is why i am lacking energy!

I have got so much to do but the only time i feel awake enough to do
it is between 3 and 5 am!

The buyers solicitor is off sick dashing all hopes of exchange this
week! Fingers crossed for early next week!

Even with an extra day this year... Time is really running out!

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Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Time and change!

Not posted for ages!
Lots has happened but actual progress has been slow!

Finally now i can say that the indemnity insurance has been procured
and this is now with the buyers solicitor to pass to the lender for
approval.
It's going to cost me about £500, but if it saves the deal then it is
definitely worth every last penny!


Oh, and i have changed solicitors! In my previous post i commented how
using an online company has certain benefits if one is prepared to do
lots of chasing and ground work. It seems that it was too much for me
and when i felt pushed into a corner and was being held to ransom
about the fees, not for additional work but for a mistake with the
original quote, i am afraid that i lost my confidence, maybe my nerve
and certainly my temper!

In the time since my last post i have also been ill with some kind of
flu virus, really high temperature and chesty cough!

I got to see my cousin last weekend, which was great and it kind of
hit home the effect on other people that our move has. He wanted to
see the kids as it would be the last chance for a very long time, he
said!

Packing is going slowly. I don't know if it is stress or the illness i
had recently, but i just don't have the energy in the evenings to do
anything- not even to write a post! I actually had a day off to pack
and tidy when the virus wiped me out!

The Korean shipping guys ard coming on Monday so i have to be ready by then!

The waiting is almost unbearable... I think i am almost too nervous
about the whole thing crashing and falling through that I can't get
exited about it- it doesn't seem real! Got to pull myself together!!!

Got all the documents sent off which was a great feeling until they
emailed to say i need a TEFL qualification! How annoying when i went
to the effort of doing the CELTA, this seems to be a mistake!

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Friday, 3 February 2012

Waiting and doing!

Still waiting for news on the house front seems a indemnity policy
will cure the issue for the buyers... Just waiting to find out how
much that is going to cost me!

Scanned my degree certificate with apostille the visa page of my
passport and the sealed envelope for my university transcript...
Always feels good to do something positive!

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Thursday, 2 February 2012

i lost 1/2 my last post so annoying!!!

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Decisions and stress

Today was a day of pretty big decisions and pretty big stresses! The
stresses were with the house... I can't believe how slow the
solicitors can be it's really annoying but the have since admitted
that if we want any kind of service from them we will be required to
pay 50%
more of the fee.
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this was a while ago things have moved on and things have got better
with the solicitors but the situation with the house is much worse.
there is an issue with the road which has no management company and
this appears to be up to me to solve. i have been quite stressed about
it and haven't been able to post about it. i am annoyed with my lack
of writing on this as the purpose of my blog was exactly this. to
document the journey through the bad times and the good. and there is
good, a flipside to this sad post. i got offered both the jobs i
applied for and after being put off by 'cynical and cold' i chose
songsu elementary school.