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Posted on March 31, 2009

We’re still work­ing on the bath­room– the never end­ing bath­room.  You’d think that the small­est room in the house would be an easy job.  So the tub is back (after being out for a day and a half).  It came out almost as soon as I hit the pub­lish but­ton on my last post.  It’s back now but we can’t drain the water because the waste pipe is too short.  So ANOTHER trip to B&Q (Think Home Depot).  This evening we bought a tile cut­ter from Screw Fix– Wal descrip­tion of the place “like a shoe store for men”.  So I’m hop­ing and pray­ing that the bath­room is DONE this week­end but I’m not going to hold my breath (breathe? breath? breathe?!?! aaaargh!).  

Tomor­row the HIP inspec­tors are com­ing– YAY!  £200+ for 15 min­utes and we’ll get a cer­tifi­cate that will allow us to list our house for sale.  Yea verily! 

I’ve been out tak­ing tons of pho­tos of trees and blos­soms and naturey crap.  I’m look­ing to get some art­work up on the walls as part of get­ting the house ready for show­ing.  We’re get­ting a stor­age facil­ity (room? space?) and we are going to put EVERYTHING into stor­age.  I mean it’s all going.  I don’t want no stinkin’ fam­ily pic­tures on the wall. Books, book­shelves, toys (woooo boy are the toys going) and cloth­ing.  Actu­ally the clothes will be going to the char­ity shop.  We have a large 2 bed semi and I want the peo­ple view­ing the place to real­ize it.  It’s too small for 3 espe­cially when the newest third comes with some much crap!  I’m also think­ing about putting in new counter tops in the kitchen.  Then I think no we shouldn’t because the per­son who buys this house will most likely put in a new one.  

That is all folks. I’m cur­rently in DIY hell w/ a man who likes to tin­ker and make things as per­fect as pos­si­ble even though we won’t be liv­ing here.  OOOH you know what?  That board you’ve been obsess­ing about for 2 hours won’t be seen because it’s UNDER THE FECKING TUB!!  Aaaah!!  We’ve been bick­er­ing a bit but all in good fun.  I mean I HAVE to give him a hard time about his nit­pick­y­ness and he HAS to give me a hard time about my desire to just slap up any old piece of trash up as long as it looks good.  LOL so when­ever I give him sh!t he just reminds me that he has pride in his work.  Blah! Blah! Pride! Blah! Give me a break and just fin­ish the damn bathroom!  

Hai!

Posted on March 28, 2009

Where has the time gone?!?!! So what have we been up to…
On Mon­day I drove down to Stoke to pho­to­graph this lit­tle bun­dle of new­born loveliness

I had sooooo much fun.  It was my first new­born shoot and Jenny (the mom) was super sweet and I hope she enjoys the pho­tos as much as I enjoyed tak­ing them.  I’m still in the mid­dle of pro­cess­ing.  I had for­got­ten how teeny new­borns are.  You should have seen the tiny lit­tle bum this one has!  Not like the big girl bum that comes my way after it goes potty!!

The rest of the week has been pretty bor­ing.  Went to the library on Tues­day, which was good since we missed our nor­mal Mon­day story time.  On Wednes­day I didn’t do much of any­thing.  Thurs­day we went swim­ming and Squidge was sooo freak­ing good!  It was like we had our swim lov­ing Squidge back!  I’ve been talk­ing to her for 2 weeks about swim­ming and not cry­ing and how when she cries water goes up her nose and she doesn’t like that and she needs to not cry and and AND!!!  And I think it finally worked!!  Thurs­day Wal went down to Lon­don for work and when he got back we went out for a curry.  Only thing was we had to wait until it got dark!  It made us laugh because Squidge asso­ciates going for a curry as some­thing that only hap­pens at night.  Not that we go out for cur­ries much so I don’t know why that has stuck.  I won­der what would hap­pen if we went to a dif­fer­ent restau­rant?  Hmm prob­a­bly a lot of tears.

So that has been my week in a nut­shell.  Hmmm did I for­get any­thing?  Oh yes the bath is in. I repeat the BATH IS IN!  Well at least tem­porar­ily, we need to make some adjust­ments and then we can start tiling.  Oh, I am SOOOO look­ing for­ward to that– not!  I absolutely loathe DIY but Wal is happy put­ter­ing around so hey what­ever as long as I sell this feck­ing place by the Sum­mer. Oh I also sold all but one of my lenses (kept my 50mm) and have ordered a Nikon 24–85 f/2.8.  It wasn’t my first choice lens but at £1100 that lens was NEVER going to hap­pen.  At least not yet.  The new lens should be arriv­ing tomor­row and I’m really look­ing for­ward to it as it’s sup­posed to be a fan­tas­tic lens.  

Any­hoo enough of my bor­ing jib­ber jab­ber– here are some ran­dom pho­tos from the past week.

 

 

 

back to the regularly scheduled program

Posted on March 22, 2009

Because I’m sure you’re all tired of look­ing at Wal’s uuuuh eeeerm duck.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some more pho­tos of us enjoy­ing the sunny weather.

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