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Monday 22 November 2010

Stuff that's happening

The ginger kid got a climbing frame (to replace the playhouse we pulled down because it was grooooooooss. And knackered. And stinky), and spent some very happy time helping the husband put it together.


















There are a good 10 million other photos to post. I will make time. I promise!

Monday 8 November 2010

Again with the bullet points

- I ordered all the curtains for the downstairs last week, paid a 50% deposit and was generally pleased.
- Until I got a phone call telling me that the fabric had been discontinued and they couldn't supply enough fabric to make my curtains.
- They're coming back tomorrow with more fabric samples.
- The first fabric I chose was perfect.
- Poos.
- We paid an astronimical amount of money to have the tree that was about to fall down cut down.
- Turns out they under quoted by more than half because it was a really dodgy tree.
- Thank heavens for quotes.
- I still feel a little bit guilty though.
- I bought them some beers to say ta.
- I think they'd probably have preferred having a cherry-picker on site and not being afraid for their lives for about 3 hours.
- Bummer.
- The tree guys told us that the tree was one good wind away from splitting completely and falling down, and it would've taken the side of our house and the sunroom out if it had.
- There was a pretty impressive storm the other night.
- Phew.
- The peach tree came right out of the ground and there was nothing wrong with that.
- Except shallow roots, apparently.
- It makes me a bit nervous when the neighbours are letting off really big fireworks to the background music of bottles clinking into the recycling bin.
- If any of them hit my house, I'm going to plant Wandering Dew in his lawn in the middle of the night.
- He has an awesome lawn.
- Wandering Dew will be excellent punishment.
- Assuming that his rottie doesn't eat me.
- Note to self to take dog treats if Wandering Dew is required.
- We do actually like the neighbours.
- I won an awesome Fun Ho! giant dump truck on Trademe for Cuinn the other day and I'm very excited about it.
- Jazz cat has been out and about, but is still being locked in the house at night.
- I wanted to keep her in for another week, but she was starting to get miserable.
- She seems to be really enjoying the grounds.
- We thought that the dogs would take quite a while to settle, based on a past move.
- They're happy as happy things.
- Excellent.
- It's really entertaining to watch the dogs run laps around the house at top speed chasing each other.
- They also think that the river is the business.
- I bought a persian rug.
- It was 70% off and I loooove it.
- YAY ME!
- We went to Plum (a historically awesome Wellington cafe) the other day, and they've ruined it. It's all shiny and beautiful and everything matches.
- We were most disgusted.
- I have it on good authority (chur Pal Nikki) that Olive will be a suitable replacement for cafe awesomeness.
- I'll let you know.
- We had a marvellous time poking around Petone stores yesterday, then we took Cuinn down to the water to chase seagulls.
- He chased them right into the water.
- Oops.
- Apparently from his perspective, that just added to the seagull-chasing fun.
- I'm making inroads into the dirt, slowly, and things are getting organised.
- We're getting a quote for a re-wire at the moment.
- Especially after we blew the fuse and it took my new computer with it.
- 2 days after the computer arrived.
- ARGH!
- We've got a quote for a heat pump.
- We won't be doing much else except weeding for a while after we do those two big uns.
- I'm really tired.
- REALLY tired.
- I'm trying to remember all the things we've done so that I can bring you up to speed, and all I can think about is going to bed.
- We haven't seen the wood pigeon for a few days.
- We're a bit disappointed about that.
- Although at least the cars aren't covered in undigested berries.
- That's a bonus.
- We got a letter from Fertility Plus yesterday about the embryo transfers, telling us what will happen with the next one when we move ahead with it.
- It seems like a lifetime ago that we were having embryo transfers.
- I feel weird about it for no known reason.
- The husband put up a new washing line the other day and it's seriously in the most awesome spot ever.
- Or it could be that anywhere in Wellington is an awesome spot to dry your washing. Quite windy here it is.
- I really should just go to bed and try to think of the important stuff we've done tomorrow.
- Oh! But before I do, the neighbour wants to drop our chimney and remove our fire place, which is an excellent idea in theory, except it seems that the wooden floors don't go all the way under the fireplace.
- I have no idea what to do about the floor if we do get the chimney and fireplace removed.
- Tiles maybe?
- We're going to put deco lightshades through the entire house.
- Heh.
- I found an awesome pink dome one on Trademe last night.
- Heh heh.
- I'm not joking.
- I'm going to bed.
- Night!