The loungeroom is very slowly being taken over by boxes. 2 weeks out and there are now 10 boxes done. I'm still in the process of wandering around the house getting something from here, something from there and packing it up to make a logical (kinda) box.
The cat has finally twigged that something is happening and has gone into anxiety mode - hiding under the bed. You'd think after half a dozen moves in the last 10 years (5 in the first five) he'd be used to it by now, but he never seems to.
Yesterday I did the final inspection - which was really just a chance to go in and measure up the place, as we had no dimensions listed on the documents. I've been working from home today, and in-between calls I've been drawing up the plans on graph paper and measuring up my furniture and making cut-outs, all to scale. Good news - all of my furniture will fit! Bad news, B? - not sure about yours ;-)
The only thing left to figure out really, is where all of B's cd's will go. Currently he has the stacked flat in vaguely alphabetical piles in his loungeroom. I think there is around a dozen stacks, ranging from 3-4 feet high - yes I count them in feet. And then there are probably another 10 feet of cd's in other places that haven't made it onto their pile yet. So if you say 30 cd's to a foot (yes I measured).. that's over 1500 cd's. Strangely, if these were all placed on shelves - they would take up a lot of room. Being an organisational freak - I'd really like to see these all easily accessible, lined up neatly (by genre, alpha, Dewey decimal), spines facing outwards.
I'm just not sure we have the space.... Now if I didn't have a car, we could convert the garage to one mean sound room.... hmmm.
Back to the boxes. We picked up some extra boxes from some friends last night. They moved only a couple of weeks ago, and apparently got a bit bored while writing the contents on the boxes. Unfortunately I've already packed my depleted uranium rods, so I'll have to find something else for that box. Although I do agree that the fire breathing dragon should live in the bedroom - wouldn't need any doonas or heaters then.
Ah time for dinner - pity I've packed all off my food *EG* nothing for it, but to go get pizza. hehehe. (Mental note to self, pack food before anyone comes to check....)
Showing posts with label Houses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Houses. Show all posts
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
Tonight's the Night!
Woo Hoo!
The two weeks of hell is over, today I get my CPAP machine.
I just checked with the pharmacy where I can rent before I buy, and they are open until 9pm, so that won't be a problem, even if the Sleep Doc is running really late, as opposed to just standard late...
And there is a gluten-free pizza place - "Town & Country Pizza" just around the corner from the pharmacy, so I think I'll have to try them for dinner.
And you may not have noticed :), but I'm typing much faster too!
Yep - I'm officially two-handed again. The Wrist Doc is amazed at how fast I have progressed back towards full movement and strength, but then I mentioned the knitting and he nodded sagely. Spinning the wrist (the movement you would do if swinging a cat by its tail..) still hurts a little - and this is what I need for knitting. But I think it is good enough now to start the my self-funded knitting therapy - once I'm not so tired anymore that I'd drop stitches and get frustrated - so that'll be tomorrow!
Amazing how it has all come together at once!
In house news, all the valuations got done and the bank agrees we *can* actually afford the new house :) I fear there are still many, many signatures needed, however, before we actually get to the moving in part...
That's all for now, move along... :)
The two weeks of hell is over, today I get my CPAP machine.
I just checked with the pharmacy where I can rent before I buy, and they are open until 9pm, so that won't be a problem, even if the Sleep Doc is running really late, as opposed to just standard late...
And there is a gluten-free pizza place - "Town & Country Pizza" just around the corner from the pharmacy, so I think I'll have to try them for dinner.
And you may not have noticed :), but I'm typing much faster too!
Yep - I'm officially two-handed again. The Wrist Doc is amazed at how fast I have progressed back towards full movement and strength, but then I mentioned the knitting and he nodded sagely. Spinning the wrist (the movement you would do if swinging a cat by its tail..) still hurts a little - and this is what I need for knitting. But I think it is good enough now to start the my self-funded knitting therapy - once I'm not so tired anymore that I'd drop stitches and get frustrated - so that'll be tomorrow!
Amazing how it has all come together at once!
In house news, all the valuations got done and the bank agrees we *can* actually afford the new house :) I fear there are still many, many signatures needed, however, before we actually get to the moving in part...
That's all for now, move along... :)
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”
Just in case you hadn't heard...
We've bought a house.
Yep - we won at auction on Saturday.
It starts being a home come October.
Want to see more pics, email me and I'll send you the URL.
And just around the corner from a S'n'B in a Gluten Free Cafe! How more perfect could that be!
We've bought a house.
Yep - we won at auction on Saturday.
It starts being a home come October.
Want to see more pics, email me and I'll send you the URL.
And just around the corner from a S'n'B in a Gluten Free Cafe! How more perfect could that be!
Sunday, April 22, 2007
In Other News....
I know, when blogging the FNQ holiday I diverged and posted an other news blog and then never got back to the original - I will try this time to return to the Tassie trip - although it is getting to be a long time between drinks...
Just a quick update on life with A (and occasionally B).
That lump in my right wrist that some may have seen, or at least heard of before, has turned out to be a benign ganglion cyst - that is wrapped around my radial artery and trying to squeeze the life out of it - OK not quite, but every time it expands a little, it causes pain, I believe it is also pressing on the nerve running through there which is causing carpal tunnel syndrome - so still not much knitting in my life :( Not to mention riding or anything that involves bending my wrist or using my thumb to grip. I am coming more and more to appreciate the wonders of this opposable thumb mechanism we have! The upshot is there will be an operation likely later this year, after which I will look like I've slit my wrist, but hopefully the pain and weakness will go and I can return to knitting (and other pursuits) in earnest.
Other news:
B has sold his Brisbane unit, still waiting for settlement to go through, but in the meantime we(I) can actually start looking and discussing what we want to buy together. Woo Hoo! Spreadsheets here I come!
With my recovering energy this year I have been able to start reading again. I am currently into Book 4 of "The Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan. I have read these before, many years ago, but there were some bad memories associated with it all, so B kindly gave me new copies of 1-9 (and I bought 10 with gift money) for Xmas. You know you're perhaps reading too much though, when you use their swear words, and start wondering what Faile would do in a situation.
Because someone somewhere *had* to go and do it, I did a google and found the quiz:
What Ajah are you?
Other things I've sought out: Visual DNA:
Just a quick update on life with A (and occasionally B).
That lump in my right wrist that some may have seen, or at least heard of before, has turned out to be a benign ganglion cyst - that is wrapped around my radial artery and trying to squeeze the life out of it - OK not quite, but every time it expands a little, it causes pain, I believe it is also pressing on the nerve running through there which is causing carpal tunnel syndrome - so still not much knitting in my life :( Not to mention riding or anything that involves bending my wrist or using my thumb to grip. I am coming more and more to appreciate the wonders of this opposable thumb mechanism we have! The upshot is there will be an operation likely later this year, after which I will look like I've slit my wrist, but hopefully the pain and weakness will go and I can return to knitting (and other pursuits) in earnest.
Other news:
B has sold his Brisbane unit, still waiting for settlement to go through, but in the meantime we(I) can actually start looking and discussing what we want to buy together. Woo Hoo! Spreadsheets here I come!
With my recovering energy this year I have been able to start reading again. I am currently into Book 4 of "The Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan. I have read these before, many years ago, but there were some bad memories associated with it all, so B kindly gave me new copies of 1-9 (and I bought 10 with gift money) for Xmas. You know you're perhaps reading too much though, when you use their swear words, and start wondering what Faile would do in a situation.
Because someone somewhere *had* to go and do it, I did a google and found the quiz:
What Ajah are you?
Other things I've sought out: Visual DNA:
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