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got keys to new house

20:12 Saturday 28 May 2016 JST

Today Lin drove us to our new house where we met the real estate guy and got the keys! I'm not feeling as excited as I did when we saw it. I guess this feeling has been described as "buyer's remorse" or maybe even "cold feet."

We set off some bug killers in the house and headed to イケア to get furniture and stuff. Lin wanted to get a big TV stand and shelves to put downstairs where we won't have a TV, but I encouraged us to move in and settle a bit before buying it.

I wish I could have done the same for the car she purchased because now she's like "hmmm I wonder where we'll put the bicycles."

Yeah. This situation has been described as "stuff owning us" instead of "we own stuff."

Headed home now (Hamacho in Kawasaki) by way of her aunt's place to return their car. (We haven't taken posession of the new car yet; I wonder if we could cancel the purchase????)

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While at the home shopping megapolis, I dropped Lin's tape measure, and it's already-cracked case shattered, spewing the spring's energy and all the coiled metal tape. I hated to waste it, but I rolled up the tape, tightening the spring, and gave it to a Megapolis employee to deal with. He apparently understood the potential energy bound up, and hopefully dealt with it safely.

Lin left her tape measure (that we bought for her a few years ago) at an apartment complex, and the management claims they discarded it. I find that hard to believe given how often things are returned in Japan, plus how nice of a tape measure it was, plus it was in a place where they regularly need to use tape measures.

Bah.