New abode!

Posted July 21, 2004

Well, it’s official. Maggie and I are getting our own place. We move in three days after our 2 year anniversary on Friday 13th of August - Black Friday :) We’re meeting the real estate agent at 9:00AM to collect the keys, and give them the bond and first two weeks rent.

We looked at it last Saturday, dropped the application form and fee off on Monday, and heard back this morning. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind decision, but not as much as Sandgate was.

It’s a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment on the top floor of a three story building in Victoria Park. The bedrooms are huge, and it has reverse-cycle airconditioning and two undercover parking bays behind a security gate. The kitchen is pretty big, and the living area is really open. One of the bedrooms will be a study, and the other will be a server room/junk room. Some of you might argue that’s one and the same :)

Location wise, it’s amazing. There’s dozens of restaurants along Albany highway, and pretty much one of every kind of shop or store you would want. There’s a LiquorLand on the corner, about 100m from our front door! :)

The server room has a view to the city so a wireless link is likely to be setup with the Sandgate massive and myself, via the AAPT building. If Mark and Em have visibility, it would be wicked to get them on our network too. We can stream videos to each other Xboxes! But that’s down the track… when we get some money together…

12 Comments so far

  1. Mark on July 22nd, 2004

    And the neighbourhood goes to shit….

    But seriously now, thats pretty darn cool. I think you are on the same street as Farrel’s - that place does a great breakfast!

  2. mlambie on July 22nd, 2004

    … we’ll have to try it out.

    Yeah, we’re both excited, though Maggie is swinging back and forwards between excitement and fear. She wants to make sure we have enough money, and I’m all “fuck that, let’s just do it!” I know that it will all work out fine, but I’ve done this three times before. She’s stil on her Vee-Plates ;)

  3. Brooke on July 22nd, 2004

    Ooooooooooooooooooooooh! How EXICITING!

    Nah - bugger saving. Doesn’t bloody work. You’ll both be fine. I have the same attitude as you.

    There will always be things you just cannot prepare for! I fly by the seat of my pants when it comes to bills!!!! :) :) :)

  4. Duncan on July 22nd, 2004

    Thats a lovely picture of a corner of a room on the real estate site. I wish I had a white corner in my house.

  5. Carrie on July 22nd, 2004

    Congratulations Matt, glad to hear you scored the apartment! Hope you are doing well down there in the big city :)

    Carrie x

  6. Radford on July 22nd, 2004

    Congrats!!!! :)

    That place looks fantastic. Nice find! Very cool, man. You must be thrilled!!!

  7. Brooke on July 22nd, 2004

    Ack! There’s a ghost woman in your bathroom mirror!!!! :)

  8. mlambie on July 22nd, 2004

    Yeha how funny is that chick in the mirror.

    And Dunc, you wouldn’t beleive it, but that room actually has four corners! Each of them are as good as the one shown. None of the other rooms have corners but; it’s wierd? :)

  9. Emma on July 22nd, 2004

    Yay, new neighbours! You guys have an even better location than us - closer to the brothels!

  10. James on July 22nd, 2004

    Whats that noise I hear… its a faint sound of.. wedding bells, its getting louder as the years go on.

    Haha.. only joking.

  11. mlambie on July 28th, 2004

    Jimmy… you can’t talk! :)

  12. James on August 3rd, 2004

    I know I cant talk.. like I say “been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, separated, and she kept the t-shirt”.

    But I’ve learnt from all my experiences so not to say “watch out” cos thats not for me to say to you, just Im now learning from what I did and taking control..

    Im only poking fun.. but anyway, im pretty much the unluckiest tit you will come across what with everything thats happened to me.