Mum’s Forthcoming Visit.

It’s been six and a half weeks since I moved to Vienna – and what do I think? Well, it’s difficult to tell really …. I haven’t been here that long. In fact, of the 45 days that have elapsed since I moved to this eastern corner of western Europe, I’ve not been here for 13 of them. What I hear you ask, have I been doing in the 32days that I have been here? Well, I’ve been out dancing, making new friends, opening boxes of my stuff that I haven’t seen in almost 9 months and donating lots of my money to IKEA. Oh yes, and I’ve also been working.

To be perfectly honest, I haven’t really seen any of Vienna. That I’m saving for when my mum gets here in about 10days. She’s expected to be here from the 2nd of June until the 17th, and I’m sure I’ll see a lot more of Vienna in those two weeks that I have in the 32 days that I’ve already been here.

My mum, being the organised, methodical person that she is, has created a list of 13 things that she wants to do while in Vienna. Consider this: she will be here for 15 days. I guess she will be rather tired the day she gets here. She will be busy packing on the day she goes away. That leaves 13 days to accomplish a list of 13 items – Coincidence?

There are still quite a few things that I need to do before my mum arrives.

Somewhere to sleep.
A bed perhaps? It’s rather lucky that on one of my many trips to IKEA to make a donation of my entire pay packet, the lovely people at IKEA were kind enough to give me a bed. Not just one, but two of them. I’ve been using one of the beds that I got, and it makes sense that my mum uses the other one. There’s only one problem with this – the lovely people at IKEA gave me the bed in a series of boxes which are no more that 2inches tall. The implication here is that I’ve got to construct the bed before my mum gets here, so that she has somewhere to sleep – If this doesn’t happen by then, I suspect I will be sleeping on the floor!

Somewhere to sit down and to eat.
Ok, this might be a bit more tricky – I have already bought a table and chairs as well as a sofa (funnily enough, this wasn’t received as a gift from IKEA in exchange for my pay packet – this will be a gift from Leiner – a furniture shop that already has my pay packet, but hasn’t given me anything in return as yet – 8 weeks from the date of donation to the date of delivery (which means I will have my table and chairs at the end of June and my sofa won’t be here until the middle of July!). So where’s my mum going to sit when she arrives? I feel another trip to IKEA coming!

General tidy up.
This is one of those things that one generally does the day before guests arrive. However, I don’t have that luxury. I’ve got to go to Frankfurt on the 30th of May and will be returning on the 2nd of June – the same day my mum gets here. In fact, my flight is scheduled to arrive approx. 35mins before hers. Does this give me enough time to do some last minute tidying up – somehow, I don’t think so. It looks like I’ll be tidying up and cleaning my apartment before I go to Frankfurt – I think I better start now!