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As you may know, some of my parcels went on a little trip inside the Greek postal service over Xmas, resulting in late gifts.
Well, another one, Jamie’s Italy, really took the biscuit. It never arrived. Complained and the reissued one never arrive. Final complaint and we agreed to send it to London, whereby my parents would send it off to me in a jiffy bag (and thus arrive at my door as opposed to getting lost, stuck in the local post office, or what we thought of as stolen from our front door).
Imagine my surprise when Maria receives a small note saying two have arrived in her name. We go check, and yes, two Jamie’s Italy book… And a third is on the way…
We still cannot imagine what the hell went on. I can only surmise that they took the lesser known postal route from Jersey to Greece, via the USA and Russia. There’s no other human explanation, other than the Greeks fouling it up somehow, but even I doubt it could have gone so spectacularly bad.
Purchased some stuff from IKEA, a new white bookshelf, one of the main items I’ve been wanting, two rugs, a red and black one, Maria’s lovely glass desk (which we needed to return the surface as they ‘misinformed’ us, thankfully, the service was excellent and we got our money back two days later) and 2/3’s of my sofa.
2/3’s you say? Well, they never seem to have the mattress in, it’s really popular. So I bought the red cover, and the metallic base. It becomes a bed, and as it’s double size, you can imagine it’s going to be pretty handy when people come over to sleep. Can’t wait until the whole thing is complete, my room will be finally finished!
Uploaded Chapter 8 of my Ranma fic, 21 reviews in two days, a good return I’d say. Going to focus on my other main project for a bit (FLCL/Evangelion) as the last update was in 2004!