Pebbles in the water

Happy New Year!  I would have posted yesterday but I was in a post-NewYearsEveParty coma.  You know, too much food, too much dancing, too little sleep.  Where were we for this wild time?  At my parent's house!  In their 70's but they know how to throw a party!  Go them!

I did emerge for a bit, at least for an hour or so - bye bye David, hello Matt!  I did get a bit teary-eyed, I have to admit.  Of course, I've been a fan since the Tom Baker days, so I've seen a fair few Doctors come and go, but I think Ten's been my favourite by a long way. 

My sister-in-law in America can't watch until tonight, so she rang me begging for the Entire Story With Nothing Left Out.  Tell me everything, she said.  So I did.  At least, I gave her the edited highlights:

( I would say there are spoilers under here but - really there aren't... )

 

Apparently I am an evil, evil person.  She is going to phone me after tonight's episode to tell me this.  It will be approximately 1:00am for me.  I love my sister-in-law.

I got my eye surgery - OMG I can SEE! It's fabulous! The best *mumble mumble* thousand pounds I've ever spent.

Been absolute chaos ever since - my parents moved house right round the corner from us; the entire house needed renovating so along with still renovating OUR house we've been helping with theirs.

And I started work a month ago; turned in my notice four weeks later. The job I could deal with; the 3-mile round trip on a bicycle because no cars are allowed on the park was just too much. Fine in the nice weather but after two days of sleet and freezing wind, I thought I'd never be warm again. To everyone else who works there: good for you. I admire you. And I will continue to admire you, from afar, while in my nice warm cozy house.

I'm having my laser eye surgery today.  I'll be getting my SPN 5:03 download around - oh, lunchtime-ish.  Right when I'll be in the middle of my surgery.

I'll be home a couple of hours later, and can't watch my shiny new show. 

whimpers

I'll be listening to it, with my friend describing the action...

not quite the same, is it?

Ten days ago I bought a new car, called my insurance company - the RAC (kind of like AAA in the States) - and got cover.  We're military living overseas so we needed the insurance documents to register the car on base and to be able to do little minor things, like, you know, GET GAS.

Soooo - two days later and there are no documents in the mail - there's a nationwide postal strike and all mail is delayed.  I called the RAC, explained the situation, and asked if they could possible e-mail me a cover note.  They said - no, really, they did -

"Sorry, we don't have e-mail access."

WTF?  This is one of the biggest motoring organisations in the UK and they DON'T HAVE E-MAIL???

( Hahahaha EPIC FAIL, RAC!!!! )

Wonder if she'll reply?

I just booked laser eye surgery for the 28th.

Laser.

Surgery.

On my eyes.

OMG.

Sooo - after four months, the new house is still decorated in old-lady colours, except my daughters room which is a lovely lilac.  It's the only room which is finished.  I thought we would get our kitchen done this weekend BUT - we were laying the flooring and suddenly realised that the gorgeous big stone doorstep which is going just inside the door to the garden has to be laid BEFORE the laminate.  So after a good 6 hours solid work, we had to take it all up again.

We suck at planning.

On the plus side, I have 2 more coats of varnish to do and then I never have to varnish again.

....except I still have to paint.

*sigh*

So, we bought a house. Moved in at the start of May. Aaaaand - it's August, almost September, and the last four months have been one big ugly blur. Jeez, the amount of work it takes to fix up a house!!!

( Yellow and green and pink oh my... )

Still, the house is starting to look good, and we finally have some time 'off' to do family-type things (so I can wear out lil'un and put her to bed early and read SPN porn till the early hours, got my priorities straight, uh-huh). 

Except we have to head out tonight for my mum's birthday celebration tomorrow followed by mine on Tuesday, so I will likely be in a drunken stupor for the next four days.  

Ah well, such is life    *g*

Woo-hoo!  I got a DW account! 

I'm at oriundus.dreamwidth.org/ - yeah, original, I know.

Now off to play with the shiny!pretty...

WE GOT OUR HOUSE!!!

\o/ \o/ \o/

Just got off the phone with the lawyers; we complete on Friday - ONE WEEK FROM TODAY WE MOVE IN!

OMG I'm so excited, this is going to be OURS - first time we've owned a real house, we can PAINT and REDECORATE and KNOCK WALLS DOWN and we don't have to ask anyone's permission to do it!

I have SO much packing to do...

I need a \o/ icon! I don't have one for SQUEEEEE! Anybody... pretty please??

Picture this: travelling home from vacation with hubby, daughter and two cats.  Toffee spends the entire 2 hour trip asleep on my lap.  Bailey yowls nonstop for 20 mins as usual then settles down.  All is calm....

...then Bailey starts yowling again.  Long loud mrrrrOOOOOOOOOOOwww type yowling.  Try to calm him down, no go.  He's prowling round the backseat, won't settle, getting more agitated.  Start clock-watching: home in 40 minutes... home in 35 minutes....

Then Bailey jumps on the back window-shelf and we find out exactly why he's yowling.  He needs to GO.  And proceeds to do so. 

I had to hand a plastic bag to daughter and, bless her, she scooped it all up without even a word of complaint.  Bailey settled right down and went to sleep and we had to drive 15 mins to a turn-off so we could dump the bag...

OMG we were trapped, gagging, for 15 mins in a car doing 60 and we couldn't even roll the windows down because, hello, 2 cats loose in the car...

y'all can stop laughing any time, you know...