Lou-quacious

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!

• Been to the sorting office to pick up a packet that needed signing for... and discovered it was the photos from thewatch - ta! :-D


• Took said photos over to Mum's and left them there for el bro.  Duly admired (and dodged) newly done paintwork, and ooo-ed over baby lettuce and tomato plants (small stalks with leaves on top. very nice I'm sure).


• Had a highly amusing time in Sainsbury's.  Shopping while slightly manic?  Much more fun.  Because you can add trolley sound-effects out loud without caring.  Brrrrrrrrm brrrrrrrm brrrrrrrrrrrrrrm!  Bought too much interesting salad (still manic).


• Burned Lost 2.17 & 18 to disc.


• Tried to fix the hall lightswitch more securely to the wall.  Failed, because the wall is kinda crumbly and not inclined to provide much grip for the rawlplugs.  Oh well.


• Called the Yorkshire Building Society and discovered that I've either got to go to Eastbourne, or write to them, to do a transfer from one account to the other.  Ho hum.


• Called Scottish Power and got the sudden and bizarre electricity bill they'd sent me (I have a pre-payment meter!) sorted out.


• Called the dentist, and was told to call back in three weeks.  Again.  *headdesk*


• Printed off the rest of the course material for my OU course.


• Had toast for breakfast!  (I keep forgetting to record my breakfasts, and it is an integral part of PEDW, after all!)


• Realised that my cat disciplining skills are completely rubbish:
  Xander: *plays up*
  Me: Argh!  I'm going to BEAT YOU!!!! *takes single step towards him*
  Xander: *flees in abject terror and hides under the bed... for 30 seconds*
  Me: *goes back to what I was doing*
  Xander: *emerges, plays up*
  Me: Argh!!!  (....rinse and repeat)

And now I'm going to.... to.... have a go at editing that damn fic, I expect.  Oh, no!  I know: I'm going to answer emails.  That's a good idea.  I'll do that, then.