Space & sleep, yay!

[soulstar]

tamaranth and swisstone are stars!  The state of my flat had been really stressing me out - more so than I'd even realised, it seems - what with half the furniture being in the wrong places, and boxes that I couldn't move (car accident, dodgy back, etc etc) all over the place.  You had to turn sideways and shuffle to get to the bed and down to the window to open / close the curtains in the bedroom, and while I knew there was a living room carpet under there somewhere... *g*  Anyway!  As I said, T & T are fabulous, because they offered to come down and help me out, and on Saturday they did just that.

The bedroom is now completely rearranged and looks great, and all the boxes of stuff (books, mainly) that are to go in there, are in there ready to be unpacked - that part I'm now doing at my leisure.  Likewise with the living room - not much furniture moving took place there, except for moving the bookcases that were stored in there out and into the bedroom, and shifting around of boxes, but everything looks so much more spacious.  Hoorah!  Plus, I've slept so well, and during the actual night as well.  It's like a miracle, or something!

I do need to do some sorting out in both the kitchen and bathroom now - we found lots of things that belonged in both while moving the clutter that the moving morons men had left randomly piled in the bedroom.  Including some potatoes.  Yummy! O.o  I also want to do a big clothing sort-out, because I have too much stuff that just doesn't fit me, and isn't likely to in the foreseeable future.  If I do manage to lose the weight that I want to, and get fit, I shall treat myself to new stuff!!  So, my plan goes as follows:

• Unpack books, dvds, videos, etc.  Recycle boxes.  Hang mirror in bedroom.


• Unpack and sort out clothes, hopefully making some spare drawer space.  Clean the top of the wardrobe and put stuff (Xmas tree, air bed, empty suitcases, etc) back on top of it.


• Sort out the things in the bathroom - eventually get the wall cabinet painted and up.


• Sort out all the stuff in the kitchen and get it into various cupboards and drawers.  Remember that the top cupboards and the drawers still need cleaning inside before stuff goes in them!


• Move the dresser into the kitchen.  See if Ian downstairs still wants my old single bed, so get rid of that.  (Get storage baskets or boxes to hold the bedding / towels that currently live in single bed drawers.)  Move the computer desk so that it's (a) near the phone point, and (b) facing the sea view.  Probably also move the rest of the living room furniture about a bit as well.  Eventually get sofabed to replace single bed as seating / visitor-sleeping-place.


• tamaranth to have bedroom desk unit thingy: replace with a nice big bookshelf.


• Get pictures and posters up on the walls.  No more living with an unending expanse of magnolia!  Nope, I want something a bit more... oh, I don't know.  A bit more me, I suppose.

Other good things:

• Although I am currently stuck on dial-up while my broadband is being transferred to my new phone line, it's not for much longer now.  Only four more days to go, in fact: roll on Jan 19th!!


• I had my eyes tested today, and although my right eye has got a little bit worse, my left eye has corrected itself somewhat.  Yay!  This means that my current glasses are overcorrecting, mind you, and also that my eyes are now quite different prescriptions from each other when they were fairly similar before.  But anyway.  There are also very funky new glasses in my near future, and they are kind of going to match my...


• ... new hair!  I've made an appointment to get the hair chopped and coloured and have even more interestingly coloured bits added into it.  Whee!  This is all part of my overall plan to make me feel brighter, and encourage myself to go out more.  The idea being, if effort has been expended on my hair, I will want to go out and show it off.  Hopefully to places like the gym, as well as socially.  Hee!

Comments

[clarey-h.livejournal.com]

Wow - that's such good news! Seems like everything is working out.

Bet you can't wait to get your hair done. :o)

[soulstar.livejournal.com]

It is, gradually! Now all I need is to have hot water in the kitchen, and to get the TV point put in before LoM restarts so I'll be able to actually watch it on the telly! *g*

I am looking forward to getting my hair done. I must remember to take before and after pics. :-)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe they had left it in such a state! didn't envy you at all, but with two of us (one a strapping swisstone) to move things around it was ever so much easier than it would have been for you, even if your back was up to it. And it was excellent use of my pre-moving energy bursts!

Re the fleece, no hurry for return ...

Shall I see you on 29th then? I promise no lifting!

[soulstar.livejournal.com]

Heh, you really should have seen it before Martin made it a bit more livable in! But it's excellent now you two have made such a huge dent in what needed doing, and I'm getting everything else unpacked and sorted out. Today, the windows are being re-done, so I'll be able to get my curtains properly hung as well. Hoorah!

29th is good for me. I shall bring the fleece (um, I shall try to remember it, anyway *g*), and you shall see my new hair! Whee :-)

[ionaonie.livejournal.com]

I always hate unpacking more than packing. Trying to find places for everything is very difficult and sorting out books and DVDs is possbly the worst (not least because you find yourself flicking through books and starting to read them again becasue you'd forgotten just how good it was, or you find DVDs that you haven't watched in a while and really want to).

Hope it all goes well for you though.

Broadband in a few days? Very cool. Hopefully sometime soon I'll get round to getting mine - so that'll be middle of the year then. I will so be having an Internet party if I actually get organised enough to get it sooner.

[soulstar.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think I quite like unpacking... as long as I'm not on a time limit for it because I'm the same - I get very easily distracted by shinythings. ;-) But getting everything settled into a new place is nice, and making it all look as you want it to (for the ten minutes until you make a mess again, anyway) is something I enjoy. It's just that I haven't been physically able to do it, which has sucked. And hey, talking of which, how is your ankle?

And woohoooo, my broadband is back! Early, even, which is nice. Which has meant some crazy ep d/l-ing, as I'm sure you can imagine.
When you do get broadband, you won't know how you ever did without it. It's definitely worth having a party for! Hee :-)