Vienna Lopez » house chores http://www.viennalopez.com the pleasure and pain of being independently employed Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:19:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 I am done for the day http://www.viennalopez.com/2009/02/27/i-am-done-for-the-day/ http://www.viennalopez.com/2009/02/27/i-am-done-for-the-day/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:18:07 +0000 vienna http://www.viennalopez.com/?p=92

So I am now taking a break… that means I have this short time to publish a short entry.

boxes*piles of boxes in our guestroom, dining room, and living room

The picture shows how far I am with the packing and I am pleased because I think I was able to catch up with my packing schedule today. That means, I can have a relaxing weekend.

I was also able to book and have our flights confirmed (finally!).

I will be leaving on the 6th of March and that means no blogging until I am back. After our trip, we’ll go back to Shanghai and fly from here to Austria.

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I thought ironing is the thing I hate doing the most but I was wrong.

I realized that I hate packing more.

Why?

Because it is a lot of work and it is messy.

First, I have to gather all the things I need to pack (and in our case, it’s A LOT of things), clean them, wrap them carefully with air bubble plastic, and put them orderly in a box. That may sound simple, but consider lifting some heavy stuff and moving them around the house. Tough, right? Of course I also have to make a list of what I put in a box because I would need a very detailed packing list of all of our moving boxes. And while packing, I won’t be able to avoid creating a mess and sometimes it could be a real eye sore.

Most of all, I hate packing because while doing it I am constantly reminded that I will be leaving some things behind.

]]> http://www.viennalopez.com/2009/02/26/packing/feed/ 0 Five boxes down, twenty-five more to go http://www.viennalopez.com/2009/02/26/five-boxes-down-twenty-five-more-to-go/ http://www.viennalopez.com/2009/02/26/five-boxes-down-twenty-five-more-to-go/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:32:08 +0000 vienna http://www.viennalopez.com/?p=90

I planned to pack at least three boxes a day so today I should have nine boxes done already because I started two days ago but obviously I am four boxes behind.

Aside from packing, there are other things I have to do like book our flights (for our last tropical holiday for this year) and hotels, buy some more cheap stuff here so we don’t have to buy the same stuff in Europe for 10 times the (China) price. I also have to worry about the receipts and invoices showing that we spend all the “8K Euro moving money”. I don’t exactly know how they call that but that’s what I call it. This money is given to expats for their house/moving expenses but at the end of the year/contract, expats should be able to show evidence that they spend this money on their house expenses otherwise they will have to pay taxes for this money.

So anyway…. I am swamped!

That upcoming tropical holiday better be good.

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