I have cracked it!

I can wallpaper. Woo and hoo. I have done the majority of downstairs, need to do three more strips on the other side of the stairs and round the doors on the landing, the layout of our house means that the entire landing is taken up by doorframes. That makes our house sound terribly grand, the reality is that it's a tiny, square, landing :) Of course the entire house is squint, curved, lumpy and messy so it's impossible to tell if the wallpaper is right until it dries 12 hours later, but what has dried so far is pretty good, if I do say so myself. Even my husband was impressed *beaming and proud of herself smiley* I promise that many, many photos will follow this post, once we're a little more settled.

I get to see Bunny on SUNDAY! That's three days! :D That means my birthday is in two days. Woop woop! My stack of cards is getting bigger, including a few from family members who insist my middle name begins with A... (I have two middle names, neither of which begin with A)

Short post today, I'm talking to some old friends, thinking of some older ones and smiling, really smiling, for the first time in a while. Until next time, my friends all lie and say, they only want the best wishes for me, three two one, we go live...

Wallpaper....

...sent by the Devil himself. That is all. Last night my husband told me I wouldn't manage it alone, so I'm doing it anyway, somewhat stubborn of me, but that's just me. However, after five hours, I've now got three strips up, one of them is a bit dodgy, it kept creasing, and nothing I could do made it better. So tomorrow I'll take a look at it and if need be I'll take it down and start again. Get me all grown up! It did take me three attempts to get the first strip up, but we'll brush over that :)

I've got my eye test tomorrow, my eyes are currently, as if to prove the point, refusing to focus on anything, which makes typing great fun! We'll see how it goes, this time I actually feel like I need to get my eyes checked, which would suggest there may be a problem with them, which is a very weird thought.

I'm planning to vomit. My ex flatmate has just put up on bookface that it's her first anniversary with her boyfriend, that she loves him and that the next year will be as good as the last. Bleugh. Especially as they got together while he was still with his ex, who he was living with... Anyway, each to their own.

Moving on. It's my birthday in three days! I've got a nice stack of cards waiting for me in the kitchen, and on Sunday I get to see the bunni! :D Then it's Wicked on Monday for which I'm already planning my makeup. I know the bunni is planning an Elphaba inspired look so I'm thinking I might go for Glinda myself :)

I've just found out that an old friend is coming over from Oz for most of August which promises to be truly epic :) He's off to both the old city and the new one, so I'll definitely see him at some point, I feel some singing is in order, possibly not Mr Brightside though, which I love, and he hates, and he used to sulk about me singing when he ran the karaoke :)

Right, now I'm off to bed. I've got a headache and, despite drinking nothing but water and Diet Coke today I feel strangely drunk. Until next time, I'm doin' cartwheels...

Minging rain and hailstones...

...in contrast to the other post hehehe. Things are good up at the farm, the house is taking shape nicely, if slowly. I still don't have a plinth in the kitchen, but the wiring is done and the conservatory/dining room is completely finished, and he's taken the plinths to school to cut them down to size so maybe they'll get done one day, though it wont be today, he's still at school, or tomorrow when he's away with DofE...

We have had the nursery discussion. Properly. None of this dancing round the issue malarky. We've decided to finish the house and are looking to his birthday in October as a marker/waypoint to work towards. Which is both exciting and terrifying, all this time I've been so desperate to have that date to work towards that for him to agree with me is quite scary :)

I've been playing with my Alice palette, lots of fun, and the primer potion is incredible, I showered on Sunday night and there were still traces of my makeup visible on Monday! Yes, I know I should take my makeup off properly, so sue me.

I am supposed to be wallpapering now, well, I decided I was going to, but I can't find the wallpaper paste or brush, so it's not getting done. I'm off Thursday and Friday so I'll get as much as I can done then. Instead I have spent the afternoon slouched on the couch catching up on facebook and emails and getting up occasionally to do the laundry. I have also booked an eyetest, when I was 18 I sustained a head injury which meant I had to get my eyes tested every six months for two years but since then it's slipped somewhat, we've now moved as well so no one will be sending me any reminders. Here's hoping that this isn't the time my eyes have worsened enough from their slight short-sightedness to mean I need glasses as I can't afford them as I'm saving for London. I have alreasy picked frames, just in case :)

This morning three champagne flutes arrived for me, on Saturday, while making dinner, I knocked one of our wedding present flutes over and it promptly shattered everywhere. The company still make them, so to avoid the debacle we had with the mugs, I ordered three so we had two spares! They are apparently dishwasher safe, but they wont fit, and I'm not risking breaking another one!

Right, time for a hot bath, the house is a bit cold today as we generally rely on the heat from the conservatory to keep the downstairs of the house warm and without sun it's not really warmed up today, the heating is on but knowing our luck if we turn it up too much it'll be roasting hot tomorrow! Until next time, you are young, but so am I, and this is wrong, but who am I to judge?

Blue skies and sunshine!

Well, sort of. There are some blue skies out there but they're strangely combined with rain, leaving us all a bit soggy.

The house is taking shape, despite all this, my mother in law turned up and weeded my garden for me which was nice of her. I'm currently on a break from varnishing shelving materials for my library which is going in the nursery, the lounge floor has been laid, and the suite was delivered this morning so we have a living room again! The plinths are on two of the banks of kitchen units and I've been promised that the lounge wiring, final plinth and clearance of the conservatory will be done tonight in preparation for building the dining furniture before one of my best friends and her other half come up on Saturday to spend the night.

The nursery is something of sore point atm, our initial deadline/road marker for trying for a baby was my 25th birthday, which is next week. Obviously that's a bit pie in the sky as we'll still be living in a building site, but we need to talk about it, not me get upset about it, try and bring it up and be platituded off. I've no idea if platituded is a real word, but I'm going to use it anyway. I'm trying to be patient and calm, but my body clock is screaming at me, especially as there seem to be babies and pregnant women everywhere I look recently.

My ex is running for a seat in the city we used to live in in today's election. Most bizarre. Giving him any position of power can not end well... More on that another time when I'm not buzzing.

I've managed to get an Alice palette! Charlie on www.ladyofthelane.com was selling one so I am very excited :D I am a geek, I get it... I'm also stupidly excited about having ordered new cushions to match my new suite. And I have appliance envy again, over a fridge. It's very pretty...

Anyway, I must be back to work otherwise my husband will be home to be greeted with half unpacked boxes in the lounge and a landing full of pieces of timber. Not good. Until next time, I wont tell anyone how your voice is my favourite sound...