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In exactly 7 days we are well on our way to move into the new apartment. Today we went to IKEA to purchase some furniture for the new apartment; a table to have the TV on and some drawers to have various clothes in. One of the drawers is tall enough to use it to change diapers and stuff (with a pillow or some underlaying layer of some kind that the baby rests upon, of course).

Earlier this week we purchased a couch as well. I am really looking forward to getting this instead of the way too small couch we have now. Does it not look comfortable?

We still need to purchase a table to have with the couch, but they were sold out of the one we wanted, so we'll probably look closer into it when we've moved in. We have a temporary table we can use, but I'd prefer to have a new and suiting table.

Lastly, I'm a bit annoyed with our ISP, and more so with our ISP's provider. You see, about 3 weeks ago I ordered an Internet connection to be made ready just after we moved in, on Monday August 3. First off, the sales guy, apparently a summer fill-in guy, managed to file the wrong address, even though I repeatedly told him the explicit address. I got this fixed, and later on I got a confirmation date for the set up of the connection on July 27. That's way too soon, and I contacted them about it again, and it was fixed and pushed back to August 4.

Wednesday I received a mail that it had been pushed back to August 14, with no reasons provided. Naturally I was like WTF and called them straight away. It seemed the bread crumb sized brain of the summer fill-in had forgot to add the number of our apartment to the form for the Internet cable guy (or whatever to call him) to arrive. Instead of just calling me and asking, "Hi, what apartment number was it?", they pushed it back 10 days.

I was told to call the service company and ask them to pop the date forward, but it was filled to the brims, but the girl at the phone, whom seemed to be quite annoyed by whomever did this to us, encouraged me to ask our ISP to do an express delivery. I asked a guy I know inside about this, and he checked with some other guy whom said that they might request a service request whatever that is. I'll check in on Monday to see what's going on, but if we cannot get the Internet connection during next week (Aug 3 to Aug 7), I'll try whatever I can to get them to speed things up. The problem is that an express delivery costs about 10,000 NOK. But if they screwed up, you can bet that I'll try to exploit them for what it's worth.