The Most Expensive Laundromat Ever

So we got a call from the moving company. Apparently our goods are now only scheduled to arrive on Tuesday. Guess we are hotel dwellers for another few days - it did seem a bit too good to be true to actually move in to our house.

The good news is that we can at least do laundry at the new house. It's a pretty hefty price per load as we are also paying for the unfurnished 3-bedroom house that sits on top of it, but there you have it. The dryer doesn't work, though. (Our landlord - who absolutely rocks - has arranged for delivery of the new one on Tuesday, so the dryer is low on my list of complaints.)

High on my list of complaints - just a shade beneath the moving company and a bit higher than the lady at the bank (who is, after all, just doing her job) - is the car shipping situation. We finally received the correct letter of EPA compliance from VW Canada (several days and several phone calls after informing them that they had sent the wrong one in the first place). Now the shipping company has requested another letter confirming the car reads in mph. At this point, I am two steps away from hopping in the car we do have a la Thelma and Louise and showing her *exactly* how the speedometer works.

And so it goes. Thanks for your prayers for patience. We knew the first few weeks would be like this, so it's just a matter of struggling through and maxing out our Canadian credit cards.