It is that in between week, the fun, family and presents are all over and the mad panic of "what are we doing for New Years?" starts.
There is no question what me and M34tb4LL will be doing for New Years this year, staying home and chilling with our homies (don't ask us why i just referred to beloved friends as 'homies', i'm very sorry about that!)
Need post Christmas wrap-up here i think. There was much visiting of relos, Christmas day drove to the parentals house where we had lunch with the paternal grandparentals and an aunt, and uncle, two cousins and two cousins once removed.
Then drove to M34tb4LL's family do (about an hour away) where there were multiple rooms full of people, some i did not even know who they were, and a MFL of food (more food, after the major nosh up for lunch, more food)
Got home about one in the morning and then got up on Boxing day to go back to the parentals house for the maternal side of the family!
I gave M34tb4LL a shock machine for Christmas - you get a few people to hold a handle and press a button. A light flashes red for a random amount of time and when it goes green you have press a button. The last person to press the button will get an electric shock - who would know that this gadget could be considered fun, but it was a big hit on Christmas day with M34tb4LL's brother and random children in the house. But it does seem to be a boy thing (sorry to be sexist, but there were no females stepping up to give the toy a try!!!)
M34tb4LL gave me an uber kewl keyboard, which i am typing this post on right now! It has blue LEDs under all the keys and a screen that cycles through clock, email connection, CPU usage. It also has 18 keys that i can set up macros for gaming (yet to do it at this point) and it has volume control so i don't have to lean over to the speakers anymore!
There were of course other fantastic gifties given and received and when a certain Amazon order arrives i will be able to complete the hand out (been waiting since mid November when it was shipped!)
So i have finished up at work - and got a bestest pressie from them. A gift voucher for gold class movies!!! So M34tb4LL and i can have a bit of pre-bubs luxury, i thought that was a really kewl prezz!!!
Now i am just playing the waiting game - why did i not buy hungry hungry hippo for M34tb4LL for Christmas!!!! Bugger, another good idea that just came too late!
(: G
28 December 2006
15 December 2006
Christmas - AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
The silly season seems to have snuck up behind me and taken a great big bite out of my sanity! No way, when did it get to a week and couple of days to Christmas?
I did notice all the decorations going up in the shops a few months ago and remember thinking, yeh yeh, plenty of time...
And i did get started on the Christmas shopping and have nearly bought presents for everyone that needed to be bought, but it is more the whole doing what with who and when!
It seems since the start of December there has been something on and there are still places to go, things to do and people and see!
*** Amazing, seriously, i am like just half way through typing this and one of our pre-chrissy commitments has had to cancel - I'm not kidding!!! ***
So anyway, it was my works Christmas party two weeks ago. 80s theme night - there was karaoke - i sang "Papa Don't Preach". Tomorrow is M34tb4LL's work Christmas thing, we will need to park in Richmond on a Saturday night - could be interesting. Sunday night have a friends Christmas dinner thing, looking forward to that - chilling out and stuff. Then back at work for a week (last week which is going to be chaos). Then have girlie night with a bestie at work as a "w00t! goodbye nine to five, hello great unknown". Then it is only a couple of days till the big X-mass day itself and have to prepare food type things to take to various places.
Then after Christmas there is boxing day with more family stuff, friends birthday and friends post chrissy BBQ - then it is new years!!!
So after all this is over, i think i will start to think about having a baby!
(: G
I did notice all the decorations going up in the shops a few months ago and remember thinking, yeh yeh, plenty of time...
And i did get started on the Christmas shopping and have nearly bought presents for everyone that needed to be bought, but it is more the whole doing what with who and when!
It seems since the start of December there has been something on and there are still places to go, things to do and people and see!
*** Amazing, seriously, i am like just half way through typing this and one of our pre-chrissy commitments has had to cancel - I'm not kidding!!! ***
So anyway, it was my works Christmas party two weeks ago. 80s theme night - there was karaoke - i sang "Papa Don't Preach". Tomorrow is M34tb4LL's work Christmas thing, we will need to park in Richmond on a Saturday night - could be interesting. Sunday night have a friends Christmas dinner thing, looking forward to that - chilling out and stuff. Then back at work for a week (last week which is going to be chaos). Then have girlie night with a bestie at work as a "w00t! goodbye nine to five, hello great unknown". Then it is only a couple of days till the big X-mass day itself and have to prepare food type things to take to various places.
Then after Christmas there is boxing day with more family stuff, friends birthday and friends post chrissy BBQ - then it is new years!!!
So after all this is over, i think i will start to think about having a baby!
(: G
26 November 2006
I blame Brisbane
For many things really - it is just setting the clocks forward by one hour people! Not that hard! Just get up an hour earlier to milk the cows! And noooo, your curtains will not fade faster because of it!!!
But on a serious note - no wait, I'm talking about Queensland, how can i be serious!!! "Well don't you worry about that", pumpkin scones all round!!!
Ok, so last week i had to travel to Brisvegas for work. For those of you who have not noticed that there is a second blog that i have (check out the visit worthy blogs under 'Peanuts blog') i am currently pregnant. 31 weeks or 7 months pregnant to be precise. I checked with the airlines before booking the trip and they said that i can fly up till 35 weeks without a medical certificate but would need a letter from my GP to confirm my current due date - easy done.
So the airlines are like 'you are fine to fly', my GP is like 'if you have to go, but this will be your last trip interstate right?', my team in Brisbane is like 'Yaaa, your coming up for a visit', my team in Melbourne are like 'We are going to watching you the whole time - you are not going to do too much' and i am like 'Hmmmm, not sure if i want to do this trip, not sure if i can get out of it'.
Can't get out of it - well i might have been able to get out of it had i been to a physio and had the strange pain in my hips when i walk looked at, but I hadn't. And being the soldier i am, i had not really told anyone about it either.
So the flight up was fine till we started the decent into Brisvegas and hit a patch of turbulence. Not only was the plane shaking, but the bubs was to! So i was being rocked from both outside and in!!! Not pleasant.
Got to the office, had some meetings, got taken out for lunch - roast lamb, mmmmm - had more meeting and found my hotel on a little map that i had picked up at the airport. I had two traveling companions with me this time and one of them was staying at different hotel (limited accommodation availability because of Kylie Minogue concert the following day - and schoolies) and by the time i was ready to leave the office, the other traveling companion, with which i was sharing an apartment, was still in meetings.
Did the walk to the hotel myself, very easy to find and only about 10 minutes away. Checked in, went up to room, turned on telly, sat on the couch and instantly fell asleep.
The next thing i remember was being woken up by roomie frantically opening the door and asking me if i was ok, while saying to her mobile "she's here, i looks like she just fell asleep". It seems that both of my colleagues had been trying to call my mobile to make sure i found the hotel, and when neither could reach me had assumed....
But a little time has gone by, we can laugh about it now. It is lucky that i was in the apartment with someone and not at the other hotel on my own really!
We then got ready for dinner, Brisbane team members had a attack plan for food, and walked back to the office to meet them. We walked down to the river and got into a ferry and went across to the other side. This is now the part that i wished i had have said something rather than played follow the leader.
When the ferry docked at the other side there was a rather steep stair case to climb - to get to a stupidly steep hill to navigate so we could get to up to the road that would take us to the restaurant of choice. And this is when the pain in my hips really kicked in stay.
Dinner was nice, service was scarily slow, but the food was delicious - and it was fun watching my senior manager getting more and more drunk as the night wore on.
Got a cab back to the hotel and crashed on the bed - pain.
Got up in the morning and walked to the place where our morning workshop was being held - pain
Got into a cab to go back to the airport - pain
Got on the plane to come back to sunny Melbourne - pain
Got to Melbourne airport and 'jumped' into a cab to take me home - pain
Stopped at office on the way to pick up parcels that had arrived while i was away - pain
Got home, home sweet home, my place of comfort and support - bearable pain
M34tb4LL got home a few minutes after i did - forgot the pain
So, got up the next morning and went to local physio to make an appointment. Had said appointment on Wednesday and the pain that i am experiencing is due to my hip becoming out of alignment and tilted on one side. Then the whole trip to Brisbane and walking that should not have occurred has torn muscled around the already aggravated area.
I have sticky plaster on my back (not sure how plaster on the skin is going to help bones, but) and a list of don'ts (not many do's to think of it) and i have another appointment this week.
The pain now depends on how much i try and do, and the physio assures me that it will get better with treatment and time.
Though the airlines say you can fly up till 35 weeks, think about the other activities you may be engaging in and get medical advise about any concerns, strange niggling pains, before venturing out!
(: G
But on a serious note - no wait, I'm talking about Queensland, how can i be serious!!! "Well don't you worry about that", pumpkin scones all round!!!
Ok, so last week i had to travel to Brisvegas for work. For those of you who have not noticed that there is a second blog that i have (check out the visit worthy blogs under 'Peanuts blog') i am currently pregnant. 31 weeks or 7 months pregnant to be precise. I checked with the airlines before booking the trip and they said that i can fly up till 35 weeks without a medical certificate but would need a letter from my GP to confirm my current due date - easy done.
So the airlines are like 'you are fine to fly', my GP is like 'if you have to go, but this will be your last trip interstate right?', my team in Brisbane is like 'Yaaa, your coming up for a visit', my team in Melbourne are like 'We are going to watching you the whole time - you are not going to do too much' and i am like 'Hmmmm, not sure if i want to do this trip, not sure if i can get out of it'.
Can't get out of it - well i might have been able to get out of it had i been to a physio and had the strange pain in my hips when i walk looked at, but I hadn't. And being the soldier i am, i had not really told anyone about it either.
So the flight up was fine till we started the decent into Brisvegas and hit a patch of turbulence. Not only was the plane shaking, but the bubs was to! So i was being rocked from both outside and in!!! Not pleasant.
Got to the office, had some meetings, got taken out for lunch - roast lamb, mmmmm - had more meeting and found my hotel on a little map that i had picked up at the airport. I had two traveling companions with me this time and one of them was staying at different hotel (limited accommodation availability because of Kylie Minogue concert the following day - and schoolies) and by the time i was ready to leave the office, the other traveling companion, with which i was sharing an apartment, was still in meetings.
Did the walk to the hotel myself, very easy to find and only about 10 minutes away. Checked in, went up to room, turned on telly, sat on the couch and instantly fell asleep.
The next thing i remember was being woken up by roomie frantically opening the door and asking me if i was ok, while saying to her mobile "she's here, i looks like she just fell asleep". It seems that both of my colleagues had been trying to call my mobile to make sure i found the hotel, and when neither could reach me had assumed....
But a little time has gone by, we can laugh about it now. It is lucky that i was in the apartment with someone and not at the other hotel on my own really!
We then got ready for dinner, Brisbane team members had a attack plan for food, and walked back to the office to meet them. We walked down to the river and got into a ferry and went across to the other side. This is now the part that i wished i had have said something rather than played follow the leader.
When the ferry docked at the other side there was a rather steep stair case to climb - to get to a stupidly steep hill to navigate so we could get to up to the road that would take us to the restaurant of choice. And this is when the pain in my hips really kicked in stay.
Dinner was nice, service was scarily slow, but the food was delicious - and it was fun watching my senior manager getting more and more drunk as the night wore on.
Got a cab back to the hotel and crashed on the bed - pain.
Got up in the morning and walked to the place where our morning workshop was being held - pain
Got into a cab to go back to the airport - pain
Got on the plane to come back to sunny Melbourne - pain
Got to Melbourne airport and 'jumped' into a cab to take me home - pain
Stopped at office on the way to pick up parcels that had arrived while i was away - pain
Got home, home sweet home, my place of comfort and support - bearable pain
M34tb4LL got home a few minutes after i did - forgot the pain
So, got up the next morning and went to local physio to make an appointment. Had said appointment on Wednesday and the pain that i am experiencing is due to my hip becoming out of alignment and tilted on one side. Then the whole trip to Brisbane and walking that should not have occurred has torn muscled around the already aggravated area.
I have sticky plaster on my back (not sure how plaster on the skin is going to help bones, but) and a list of don'ts (not many do's to think of it) and i have another appointment this week.
The pain now depends on how much i try and do, and the physio assures me that it will get better with treatment and time.
Though the airlines say you can fly up till 35 weeks, think about the other activities you may be engaging in and get medical advise about any concerns, strange niggling pains, before venturing out!
(: G
30 October 2006
I'm going to have a whinge ):
For want of something better to ramble on about really, but this is my blog - it is about me - it is your choice to read it - so there!!!
Right, got that out of the system now it is down to the whinging part.
As you should have figured out by my last post, M34tb4LL i got married one month and one day ago. We did the whole secret thing and told people the next day, SURPRISE. But it was the way we wanted to do it, and after being together for over fifteen and a half years, having not really talked about getting married, and with a baby on the way...
Well the reasons are there and, yup, anyway back to my whinge.
There is a girl (woman) at work who has been planning her wedding for the best part of two years, ever since her little man slipped a ring on her finger and her wedding happened to fall about two weeks after ours. I had the Monday and Tuesday off work after our little event and came back to work on the Wednesday to much congrats and people laughing about how much of a sneaky peoples we had been, love it! On the Thursday i had a rather large envelope placed on my desk with a request to sign a card for the afore mentioned bride to be and a second envelope with a request of money to buy her a wedding present.
This is not the whinge part by the way, this is just setting the scene for you.
The envelope made its way around the office and by early the next week members of the office were called into the kitchen for a presentation to the bride to be. She was given the giant card that about 100 people had signed and was given a present that consisted of a two-in-one DVD and VCR player, and a milkshake maker.
Still just setting the scene.
I was standing at the back at the crowd (as is my want) feeling happy for her and enjoying watching her blush with excitement at her new appliances, when
Here comes the whinge part...
A member of the senior management pointed to me and encouraged everyone to turn and give their congratulations to me having recently gotten married myself.
Don't get the whinge part? I spell it out.
It was a choice i made to 'elope' and if that means not getting showered with gifts is part of it - don't care. We've been in our house for 10 years and have enough crap. Plus i have always kind of felt like i have to give a gift at a wedding because the bride and groom have spent so much money on that one day that they need a bubble or two as pay back. I can cope without getting a gift, but...
To have this girl being the centre of attention, holding a stupidly big card and loving the look of her new toys, and then turn the attention on me with an "oh, by the way, lets also recognise G" made me feel hideously embarrassed.
Either have a presentation (again, don't care that i did not get one) or leave me be. Actually, just leave me be!
(: G
Right, got that out of the system now it is down to the whinging part.
As you should have figured out by my last post, M34tb4LL i got married one month and one day ago. We did the whole secret thing and told people the next day, SURPRISE. But it was the way we wanted to do it, and after being together for over fifteen and a half years, having not really talked about getting married, and with a baby on the way...
Well the reasons are there and, yup, anyway back to my whinge.
There is a girl (woman) at work who has been planning her wedding for the best part of two years, ever since her little man slipped a ring on her finger and her wedding happened to fall about two weeks after ours. I had the Monday and Tuesday off work after our little event and came back to work on the Wednesday to much congrats and people laughing about how much of a sneaky peoples we had been, love it! On the Thursday i had a rather large envelope placed on my desk with a request to sign a card for the afore mentioned bride to be and a second envelope with a request of money to buy her a wedding present.
This is not the whinge part by the way, this is just setting the scene for you.
The envelope made its way around the office and by early the next week members of the office were called into the kitchen for a presentation to the bride to be. She was given the giant card that about 100 people had signed and was given a present that consisted of a two-in-one DVD and VCR player, and a milkshake maker.
Still just setting the scene.
I was standing at the back at the crowd (as is my want) feeling happy for her and enjoying watching her blush with excitement at her new appliances, when
Here comes the whinge part...
A member of the senior management pointed to me and encouraged everyone to turn and give their congratulations to me having recently gotten married myself.
Don't get the whinge part? I spell it out.
It was a choice i made to 'elope' and if that means not getting showered with gifts is part of it - don't care. We've been in our house for 10 years and have enough crap. Plus i have always kind of felt like i have to give a gift at a wedding because the bride and groom have spent so much money on that one day that they need a bubble or two as pay back. I can cope without getting a gift, but...
To have this girl being the centre of attention, holding a stupidly big card and loving the look of her new toys, and then turn the attention on me with an "oh, by the way, lets also recognise G" made me feel hideously embarrassed.
Either have a presentation (again, don't care that i did not get one) or leave me be. Actually, just leave me be!
(: G
01 October 2006
BIRTHDAY!!! and more (???)
Well it is my birthday and my stress levels are far lower than they were the other day when i rambled on amnd on and on and on and on and ...
M34tb4LL and i had our party last night, and it all went well (i can say that now). We had far too much food, better to have too much than not enough though.
After people had eaten we gather them round the telly to watch a little surprise birthday video that we had prepared -
If it does not load, it might, it might not, here is the direct link to YouTube -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iqHjhkjXnM
It was sort of like a reverse surprise party - the birthday peoples (and a few others) were the only people who knew what was really going on!
(: G
M34tb4LL and i had our party last night, and it all went well (i can say that now). We had far too much food, better to have too much than not enough though.
After people had eaten we gather them round the telly to watch a little surprise birthday video that we had prepared -
If it does not load, it might, it might not, here is the direct link to YouTube -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iqHjhkjXnM
It was sort of like a reverse surprise party - the birthday peoples (and a few others) were the only people who knew what was really going on!
(: G
24 September 2006
Pre-Birthday Post
The birthday session is nearly upon us again, and this time it feels almost like it snuck up on this time!
It is M34tb4LL's birthday on Wednesday (in like three days time) and mine is a week from today.
I have picked up a few prize goodies for M34tb4LL's gift but this year I have not been nearly as organized as previous years, only finished shopping yesterday for him - which is not like me. And I feel that the gift does not reflect any sort of creative effort. I have just gone and bought 'stuff' that I know he wants.
I'm not saying that the gift is not quality, it is premo. But I have not thought of things by myself, it is all stuff from a list. He will love it though.
It is just with other things that are coming and going through our minds are kind of taking over thoughts. With Peanut still growing away, and what are going to call him, and what room will be his, and if we get rid of the futon in the back bedroom we can move the piano from the front bedroom to the back, but the pinball machine will have to go as well, and that room is dump at the moment and you can't even get into the door, and the chaise does not suit he nursery look, but it is a family heirloom and I could not part with it, and just other stuff...
And oops! It is only a couple of days till M34tb4LL's birthday and what do I get him? And we should take some time off work together, but there is new staff starting, but I have put my leave form in and it has been approved, but the new HR manager is coming down from Queensland the day before I am going on leave, and there are still more new staff members starting, and if I get in by 7.30 in the morning I should be able to get my normal work done, and each work day is looking quadruple booked in my calendar, and now there are another two staff members staring after my leave starts, but if I can get their packs done someone else can go through the content with them, and just other stuff...
So by next Sunday (a week from today) I will have been on leave for three working days and both M34tb4LL and myself will have to refer to our ages as a digit higher than we are now, and I will still have two working days left of leave, and I want to go to the zoo, which should be possible, because school kids are back in school by then, hopefully my head is not going round as fast as it is at the moment, and just not much other stuff...
Ask me next week how I am, I should be able to answer you in a sentance that does not take five minutes to say by then.
(: G
It is M34tb4LL's birthday on Wednesday (in like three days time) and mine is a week from today.
I have picked up a few prize goodies for M34tb4LL's gift but this year I have not been nearly as organized as previous years, only finished shopping yesterday for him - which is not like me. And I feel that the gift does not reflect any sort of creative effort. I have just gone and bought 'stuff' that I know he wants.
I'm not saying that the gift is not quality, it is premo. But I have not thought of things by myself, it is all stuff from a list. He will love it though.
It is just with other things that are coming and going through our minds are kind of taking over thoughts. With Peanut still growing away, and what are going to call him, and what room will be his, and if we get rid of the futon in the back bedroom we can move the piano from the front bedroom to the back, but the pinball machine will have to go as well, and that room is dump at the moment and you can't even get into the door, and the chaise does not suit he nursery look, but it is a family heirloom and I could not part with it, and just other stuff...
And oops! It is only a couple of days till M34tb4LL's birthday and what do I get him? And we should take some time off work together, but there is new staff starting, but I have put my leave form in and it has been approved, but the new HR manager is coming down from Queensland the day before I am going on leave, and there are still more new staff members starting, and if I get in by 7.30 in the morning I should be able to get my normal work done, and each work day is looking quadruple booked in my calendar, and now there are another two staff members staring after my leave starts, but if I can get their packs done someone else can go through the content with them, and just other stuff...
So by next Sunday (a week from today) I will have been on leave for three working days and both M34tb4LL and myself will have to refer to our ages as a digit higher than we are now, and I will still have two working days left of leave, and I want to go to the zoo, which should be possible, because school kids are back in school by then, hopefully my head is not going round as fast as it is at the moment, and just not much other stuff...
Ask me next week how I am, I should be able to answer you in a sentance that does not take five minutes to say by then.
(: G
08 September 2006
Home delivery rocks!
I can't tell you how many times i have had to do a midnight run to the 24 hour petrol station because we have run out of one of lifes little essential items. But not anymore.
A couple of weeks ago while M34tb4LL and myself were doing nothing on a Saturday afternoon a young lad came to our door, selling an idea that was so simple yet so revelutionary, we had to sign up for the service then and there.
The idea was - once or twice a week (our call) we could get products of our choice, from their range, home delivered and it would be charged to a credit card. No-one has to home to receive the delivery as they give us a cooler bag that we just have to leave at the door that items will packed into.
Amazing - who would have ever thought of that!
So every Thursday night before going to bed i pop a large bright green (for that is the colour they provided) cooler bag outside the front door and when i get out of bed on Friday morning i have a two litre bottle of milk, a loaf of white bread (toast cut) and a two litre bottle of juice.
And this is the even better part of the deal. With the juice they alternate between apple and orange (that was my choice). One week it is apple the next orange, and i'm not talking naff orange fruit drink and crystal clear, colour of pee apple juice - i am talking orange juice so full of its natural puld that you could chew it and apple jusice that is that satifying cloudy, greeny-brown colour. Both of them tasting like you have squeezed them fresh yourself.
And does this service cost us an arm and a leg? It is a darn site cheaper than the service station charges for the same products and i think it is at least comparable or even less than some supermarkets!
And you thought i was going to ramble on about ebay or something (by the way ebay rules!!!)
(: G
A couple of weeks ago while M34tb4LL and myself were doing nothing on a Saturday afternoon a young lad came to our door, selling an idea that was so simple yet so revelutionary, we had to sign up for the service then and there.
The idea was - once or twice a week (our call) we could get products of our choice, from their range, home delivered and it would be charged to a credit card. No-one has to home to receive the delivery as they give us a cooler bag that we just have to leave at the door that items will packed into.
Amazing - who would have ever thought of that!
So every Thursday night before going to bed i pop a large bright green (for that is the colour they provided) cooler bag outside the front door and when i get out of bed on Friday morning i have a two litre bottle of milk, a loaf of white bread (toast cut) and a two litre bottle of juice.
And this is the even better part of the deal. With the juice they alternate between apple and orange (that was my choice). One week it is apple the next orange, and i'm not talking naff orange fruit drink and crystal clear, colour of pee apple juice - i am talking orange juice so full of its natural puld that you could chew it and apple jusice that is that satifying cloudy, greeny-brown colour. Both of them tasting like you have squeezed them fresh yourself.
And does this service cost us an arm and a leg? It is a darn site cheaper than the service station charges for the same products and i think it is at least comparable or even less than some supermarkets!
And you thought i was going to ramble on about ebay or something (by the way ebay rules!!!)
(: G
30 July 2006
My blog is broken!
I have been having trouble with the appearance of my blog recently. Rather than the smooth purple flow that is exciting to the eye i have had an angry, painfull for the eye, purple overflow!
Or at least that is what i thought, but how come none of my loyal readers have complained about the violent-violet appearance?
It has taken me till this morning to figure out what had happened when, as a last ditch effort, i opened the blog in interent explorer - it looked fine!
So my blog seems to only be broken in firefox, check the site of the dude that wrote the template and low and behold commentage about my the template does not display correctly and can he post a fix, to date, nothing.
So now i have fix my broken blog. I know it does not make a differnece to you my poor unforunate ie users, but i am perfectionist (and anyone who knows me will know that that is an out and out lie) and i can not have an angry fruit salad of blog in firefox.
So my purple passion template - RIP (can we please have a minutes silence?)
): G
Or at least that is what i thought, but how come none of my loyal readers have complained about the violent-violet appearance?
It has taken me till this morning to figure out what had happened when, as a last ditch effort, i opened the blog in interent explorer - it looked fine!
So my blog seems to only be broken in firefox, check the site of the dude that wrote the template and low and behold commentage about my the template does not display correctly and can he post a fix, to date, nothing.
So now i have fix my broken blog. I know it does not make a differnece to you my poor unforunate ie users, but i am perfectionist (and anyone who knows me will know that that is an out and out lie) and i can not have an angry fruit salad of blog in firefox.
So my purple passion template - RIP (can we please have a minutes silence?)
): G
12 July 2006
So what has been happening now?
In the post labeled "so much has happened" I said that so much has happened and then I prattled on about our couch whoos, which seeing as this blog is all about me and all the stuff involved with the sizable purchase that a sofa is - it can be considered fascinating, of course it can.
But, anyway, when I said so much was happening - so much is!!!
If you look at my list of links you will see that under the list of blog worthy sites you will notice a new blog about "Peanut".
Have a little look at it, there is stuff there.
tee hee
(: G
But, anyway, when I said so much was happening - so much is!!!
If you look at my list of links you will see that under the list of blog worthy sites you will notice a new blog about "Peanut".
Have a little look at it, there is stuff there.
tee hee
(: G
08 July 2006
Oops, been more than a month since last post
So the continuation of the couch saga -
Being once again couchless, we started the search all over again. With a better idea in our minds of what would suit the room and what structural properties to look for (or look out for) we hit the furniture shops.
It became very clear, very quickly, if we wanted to get something in the same price range as we had previously chosen we would only get either the same thing that we had just returned or some sort of naff, 80s style, mega puffy, high backed, violent coloured, far too many recliners to be practical suite.
With heavy hearts and tear streaked faces we stumbled into the next shop along, Oz Design. There was a couch set that we had been considering from there the last time we had purchased, but had opted to go another way at the time. This time we looked again at the sofa in question and from what we now knew it was struck off the list. Nice couch, just the style did not have the option of matching arm chairs and it was sold as a package with a giant rectangular ottoman that would have taken too much room.
Our eyes then fell on the "Dorado", available in arm chair, 2 seat, 2.5 seat, 3 seat (with three seat cushions - they had it in stock so we could be sure of this), semi circle ottoman and a rectangular ottoman. Lower, less chunky arms than the "James" (the one from the evil furniture place, that was not very fantastic) that were properly padded, good choice of colours, very comfy to sit (and lie) on, "WE'LL TAKE IT!!! but not yet"
So, we went home, draw up a plan of the room to the correct measurements and made some cut outs of the "Dorado" to scale, then looked at the best placements in the room.
Then we went back to the store - they were having a 12% off sales - and placed an order for a 3 seat, two arm chairs, a rectangular ottoman and a coffee table that they happen to stock that is the same make and model as the entertainment unit that we bought 8 years ago (how lucky is that!). Now we just have to wait 4 to 6 weeks for it to be ready.
This all took place 4 weeks ago tomorrow, should be here any time now...
(: G
Being once again couchless, we started the search all over again. With a better idea in our minds of what would suit the room and what structural properties to look for (or look out for) we hit the furniture shops.
It became very clear, very quickly, if we wanted to get something in the same price range as we had previously chosen we would only get either the same thing that we had just returned or some sort of naff, 80s style, mega puffy, high backed, violent coloured, far too many recliners to be practical suite.
With heavy hearts and tear streaked faces we stumbled into the next shop along, Oz Design. There was a couch set that we had been considering from there the last time we had purchased, but had opted to go another way at the time. This time we looked again at the sofa in question and from what we now knew it was struck off the list. Nice couch, just the style did not have the option of matching arm chairs and it was sold as a package with a giant rectangular ottoman that would have taken too much room.
Our eyes then fell on the "Dorado", available in arm chair, 2 seat, 2.5 seat, 3 seat (with three seat cushions - they had it in stock so we could be sure of this), semi circle ottoman and a rectangular ottoman. Lower, less chunky arms than the "James" (the one from the evil furniture place, that was not very fantastic) that were properly padded, good choice of colours, very comfy to sit (and lie) on, "WE'LL TAKE IT!!! but not yet"
So, we went home, draw up a plan of the room to the correct measurements and made some cut outs of the "Dorado" to scale, then looked at the best placements in the room.
Then we went back to the store - they were having a 12% off sales - and placed an order for a 3 seat, two arm chairs, a rectangular ottoman and a coffee table that they happen to stock that is the same make and model as the entertainment unit that we bought 8 years ago (how lucky is that!). Now we just have to wait 4 to 6 weeks for it to be ready.
This all took place 4 weeks ago tomorrow, should be here any time now...
(: G
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