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Nov. 14th, 2016 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsI was surprised to see it's been so long since I posted.
Things are going okay, just busy. We're decorating right now and for the last week or so I've been stripping the wallpaper from the hall, stairs and landing. As it's blown vinyl wallpaper covered in many years worth of paint it was coming off in tiny sharp shards at first. Then we got our hands on a wallpaper stripper and it's gone faster from then. Unfortunately I'm just an inch too short to reach the ceiling, even when standing on a step, so that top bit is taking longer than the rest of the wall put together. We bought long handled scrapers, but it still means stretching up to steam the spot and then scraping away, my neck aching all the time.
Then there was the cluster fuck with the bed last week. We'd bought a new super king size bed as the old one was well past its best. Corey used to sleep in it with us when he was a bairn, so that shows how old it was. Knowing how big the beds would be we paid extra for the old bed to be taken away and the new one set up. So the new bed arrived, the delivery men looked at the old one and said they wouldn't take it as the mattress had some stains and the divan scratched in places by the cats.
When James asked what we were supposed to do they said could we arrange for someone to come take the bed out, and they'd bring back the new bed later, but we'd have to pay another delivery on top of the first one. Which we said no to, so they left, and with James, I took ages wrestling the old bed downstairs where a local man with a van type picked it up and took it to the tip. We did get part of the delivery fee back, but that was wiped out by the man with the van.
What's annoying is if they'd said the mattress needed to be pristine to be moved or otherwise wrapped we would have done so, but they never did. But, at least the bed is in there now and very comfortable. At least for me, James says it's making his hips hurt, but I suspect that's because he's sleeping on an actual firm mattress now and not one that's gone soft with age.
In the last weeks we've also gone to Mog on the Tyne, the cat cafe, again, which was fabulous! And gone to see lots of movies, my favourite being A Streetcat Named Bob, which was amazing and everything I wanted in a film.
Mini nano is going well and I've hit my target each day. Though considering I only put down 100 daily words that's not hard to do. But, it does mean my bandom holidays story is going nicely and should be easily done in time.
Things are going okay, just busy. We're decorating right now and for the last week or so I've been stripping the wallpaper from the hall, stairs and landing. As it's blown vinyl wallpaper covered in many years worth of paint it was coming off in tiny sharp shards at first. Then we got our hands on a wallpaper stripper and it's gone faster from then. Unfortunately I'm just an inch too short to reach the ceiling, even when standing on a step, so that top bit is taking longer than the rest of the wall put together. We bought long handled scrapers, but it still means stretching up to steam the spot and then scraping away, my neck aching all the time.
Then there was the cluster fuck with the bed last week. We'd bought a new super king size bed as the old one was well past its best. Corey used to sleep in it with us when he was a bairn, so that shows how old it was. Knowing how big the beds would be we paid extra for the old bed to be taken away and the new one set up. So the new bed arrived, the delivery men looked at the old one and said they wouldn't take it as the mattress had some stains and the divan scratched in places by the cats.
When James asked what we were supposed to do they said could we arrange for someone to come take the bed out, and they'd bring back the new bed later, but we'd have to pay another delivery on top of the first one. Which we said no to, so they left, and with James, I took ages wrestling the old bed downstairs where a local man with a van type picked it up and took it to the tip. We did get part of the delivery fee back, but that was wiped out by the man with the van.
What's annoying is if they'd said the mattress needed to be pristine to be moved or otherwise wrapped we would have done so, but they never did. But, at least the bed is in there now and very comfortable. At least for me, James says it's making his hips hurt, but I suspect that's because he's sleeping on an actual firm mattress now and not one that's gone soft with age.
In the last weeks we've also gone to Mog on the Tyne, the cat cafe, again, which was fabulous! And gone to see lots of movies, my favourite being A Streetcat Named Bob, which was amazing and everything I wanted in a film.
Mini nano is going well and I've hit my target each day. Though considering I only put down 100 daily words that's not hard to do. But, it does mean my bandom holidays story is going nicely and should be easily done in time.
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Date: 2016-11-14 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-14 08:03 pm (UTC)It was amazing how little the buildings had changed, even inside. Though yeah, it was more walking boots, waterproof trousers and rucksacks outside.
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Date: 2016-11-14 08:53 pm (UTC)Go Mini Nano!
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Date: 2016-11-19 07:18 pm (UTC)\o/
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Date: 2016-11-14 09:36 pm (UTC)It really sucks that the movers flaked out on you guys. Here's hoping that James adjusts to the new mattress' firmness soon. :)
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Date: 2016-11-19 07:18 pm (UTC)James is liking the mattress more now it's got a padded mattress protector on it. I thin he just got so used to the old one that had the imprint of his body.
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Date: 2016-11-20 05:02 pm (UTC)LOL, I hear him on how "comfy" the old mattress might have felt. However, like most things, the support his body will get with the new one will soon make him feel less nostalgic about the old one. ;)
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Date: 2016-11-15 02:25 am (UTC)Also the cat cafe sounds absolutely wonderful! :3
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Date: 2016-11-19 07:17 pm (UTC)The mattress thing was a pain, though.
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Date: 2016-11-15 08:31 pm (UTC)That really sucks about the movers, but hooray! for your new comfy bed!
And go you for keeping up with your daily writing target!! *waves pompoms enthusiastically*
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Date: 2016-11-18 06:04 pm (UTC)It really is. Thankfully it's all nearly done now. The decorator has just been to quote how much to wallpaper the stairs, and it's not really that much more to get the paintwork done too. I was going to do it myself, but think I'll hand the job over to the professional, especially the ceilings.
The bed is so comfy, and so very high.
Thank you! The writing streak is still going on, so a scene or so and bandom holidays will be done.
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Date: 2016-11-19 03:33 pm (UTC)WTF about them not taking the bed away - honestly, whose mattress would be pristine enough to be collected?
I am doing much the same with my bandom hols fic - it's such a delightful confluence of fannishness that mininano and it fall so nicely together :D
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Date: 2016-11-19 07:16 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's what I was thinking mattress wise. I would have understood if it was a health hazard, but it was just staining due to old age.
it's such a delightful confluence of fannishness that mininano and it fall so nicely together
It really is. I'm enjoying writing so much, and the sense of achievement of doing mini nano too is a lovely bonus.
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Date: 2016-11-20 09:52 am (UTC)I'm looking forward to seeing A Streetcat Named Bob.
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Date: 2016-11-26 04:55 pm (UTC)A Streetcat Named Bob was so good. Just a really nice adaptation of the book.