Very quickly, how, how, how, does it take WEEKS and WEEKS with nothing happening and then does it all just go mad when buying a house? We got the offer accepted at the end of August and nothing appeared to happen at all, including with me occasionally calling the solicitor to ask where things were. And suddenly, we're completing on Friday. If I was young enough it was definitely be a moment for OMG.
There are boxes, despite me having decided to pay packers (for an extra £200 when so much money has passed through my bank account it's scary), bags for charity, bags for recycling, piles of "stuff" I just don't know what to do with ......
And I've got to leave for work at half 6 tomorrow so I'm going to bed. Will report in when I've got a moment to breathe (oh but keep fingers crossed for the second viewing I have tomorrow when they might just want to buy my house??)
Monday 22 October 2012
Tuesday 2 October 2012
To cheer myself up
A post to cheer myself up. I've had a dodgy stomach, which is very unusual for me as I'm usually proud of my iron-like insides. I felt a bit rough on Monday but soldiered into work - and the biggest problem of the hour-and-a-half commute is that it's a long way to get back home if you don't feel good. And I didn't feel good. Throwing up in the loo at work is not a glamorous moment! I've done it once or twice when I was younger and more foolish but this was not for alcohol-induced reasons - nor am I pregnant, before yet someone else asks (four to date!!)
The last few weeks have been whirlwind on some fronts - thinking that we've got a house and that we're moving in together really soon and also life has been pretty busy - but not so whirlwind in that solicitors are not moving very quickly and so I've not got any dates to work to. Which means that it will all happy really quickly at some point soon but until then, I'm trying to sort out papers and bin things that I don't need. I'm not very good at that part - see earlier posts - and not having a deadline to work to isn't helping.
But other nice things have happened. We had a weekend in Paris where we were incredibly lucky with the weather. I had a Eurostar voucher as a present which nearly amounted to one ticket so we got hotel and one more ticket and had a nice weekend. We walked lots and were surprised how many tourists there still were around - I suppose I shouldn't have been so surprised as London continues to be a nightmare, but it's different when you are the tourist!
Back to the grindstone - some sorting out to do before dinner .......
The last few weeks have been whirlwind on some fronts - thinking that we've got a house and that we're moving in together really soon and also life has been pretty busy - but not so whirlwind in that solicitors are not moving very quickly and so I've not got any dates to work to. Which means that it will all happy really quickly at some point soon but until then, I'm trying to sort out papers and bin things that I don't need. I'm not very good at that part - see earlier posts - and not having a deadline to work to isn't helping.
But other nice things have happened. We had a weekend in Paris where we were incredibly lucky with the weather. I had a Eurostar voucher as a present which nearly amounted to one ticket so we got hotel and one more ticket and had a nice weekend. We walked lots and were surprised how many tourists there still were around - I suppose I shouldn't have been so surprised as London continues to be a nightmare, but it's different when you are the tourist!
Back to the grindstone - some sorting out to do before dinner .......
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