Boxes are Here!

Yeay! The three boxes of stuff that I sent home has finally arrived today. It took a little more than 2 months but all three boxes have arrived safely intact. I am a little excited that my stuff is all back, including my collection of hundreds of original DVDs. However, I am kind of in a bind now because I do not really have any place to store them. So, everything will stay in their boxes for a while.

I am presently living in the home that my parents have lived in for the last few years. Unfortunately, I have not really lived in this house for a decade. So, I don’t really have any storage space to call my own. At the moment, I am sleeping on the living room couch and treating the living room as my own little space. For now, the arrangement is fine as long as we do not have any guests over, which we don’t.

At some point in the future, I will probably go shop around for a residential property to buy. I will probably wait till the housing market drops further, and the interest rates lowered. I am fully expecting a lower interest rate to be announced to help encourage spending. Once that happens, I may start shopping around for a place to live. I have been diligently reading the classified ads for a while now.

For the last few weeks, I have actually been looking at the prices for a piano and also odd pieces of furniture. Some of the prices are actually quite cheap. There was a place selling a brand new Weinstein grand piano for only RM17,000! That is so very cheap for a grand piano. If I had my own little place, I would probably have gotten the piano for myself.

I have been playing my old upright but it just doesn’t quite feel the same once you have gotten used to the touch of a grand. Actually, I have been quite surprised that I can still play some of the higher level pieces relatively well (relative because I can still make it sound okay). I guess that my muscle memory is in better shape than I had thought.

I am kind of in an odd position because I have the interest in buying stuff and filling up my own home but I do not really have a home per se. I can’t possibly fill up my parents’ home, which is already filled to the brim with stuff that we have collected over the last few decades. I also cannot fill up my sisters’ home because it is her own place and we have different tastes.