Stars on the ceiling
// June 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // House
Recently, me and my family moved house. This wasn’t our choice, but mandated by our previous landlord who decided that instead of renewing our lease for the third year, they’d evict us so that they could move in. Lots of things have happened over the last few weeks, from finding a new house, arranging the bond, handing in early notice for the old house (so we could move sooner than the 7th of July – the 60 day notice period required) and so on, but one of the odd little things we didn’t count on was finding glow-in-the-dark stars all over the ceiling and underside of the lamp shade in our master bedroom. This isn’t all that strange by itself, except that this is the second rental property we’ve had that turned out to have glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling. Years ago, in a colony far far away (Newcastle) we had a place that in hind-site would be perfect us now. It had:
- Polished floors
- Decent enough kitchen
- Ensuite and bathroom
- Internal and external access laundry
- 2 huge bedrooms, a smaller bedroom and a second lounge room
Unfortunately, 2 weeks after we moved in we were burgled. They took some stock from Tam’s home business, some DVDs and our DVD player – about $2k in total. We never got any of it back and we weren’t insured. The house lost all appeal after that and we moved as soon as the lease was up.
