We're In! Again!

Dee and I have made the move into the apartment. The move was an interesting one, but now that its done and over, we have begun to make it our own.

In a manner that brings me back to days in Sweden (where waking up constitutes a productive day), productivity in London has proved to be something a bit more difficult to attain than Dee and I are used to from our former medium. Dee took a "settling in" day yesterday (Thursday) so that we could attempt to get some things done during the daytime. One such bullet on the to-do list was to figure out our banking situation. What we thought was going to be a simple trip back to our old stomping grounds of Chelsea to pick up some glorified "internal mail" at NatWest, ended up being a 3 hour mind-bender. The phrase that sums up the experience came from one exacerbated customer service representative that we were passed to at a branch very far from where we started.

"You should consider yourselves lucky to have a bank account in England at all."

Thank you Mina...thank you. As my sister says, it was time for the "job speech" which Dee delivered to perfection.

Wait, it wasn't all bad though! We followed up this main course of banking woe with a generous helping of IKEA for dessert! As any good square headed Swede knows, IKEA toes the line between Home Depot (guys) and Bed Bath & Beyond (gals). All parties are interested and curious no less, and no one (me) feels completely emasculated by completely enjoying oneself. What a amazing place it is.
After about 4-5 hours of wandering the aisles, we finalized our purchases. In London they have a same-day mini-cab service that will drive you home for a small fee! Priceless when you have big items. Our paranoid driver and my lack of quid (not sure if I have used this correctly, i.e. cash) made it an eventful ride home, but we got back all in one piece!

In Sweden, a day ending at this juncture would be considered to be an immensely productive one. Dee kept going though! Assembling furniture, cutting things, hammering nails, organizing clothes. On a mission.

Back to work today for Dee, and today is my last weekday of nothing! Hence the long post. We hope to take a day trip somewhere (Windsor?) tomorrow, but we'll see how it all goes!