I have a date!

yes finally spoke with Brad this morning and confirmed that the kitchen will go in on the 15th & 16th of December!

Now just to book in the skip, plumber,  & sparky and to get the window bricked up and plastered over, the room painted, the tiles bought and tiler organised and the rest of the kitchen emptied…oh and of course to pick up the other bits of the kitchen that Ikea didn’t have!

progress though….progress is good!

Not going anywhere…

still waiting on a call with a date for my kitchen

still waiting on a call back from the boys new school about some extra orientation for them

not coping very well with the heat…so dishes are still waiting too …blah!

Need to get ready for retreat  – have thought about what to pack…sadly I don’t have the power of telekenetics so it hasn’t flown into the tote on its own…going to have to do it myself.

Well I have tomorrow (with Corey) and Friday (with Corey) as well as evenings to get organised…will get there eventually.

 

Mondays to do list

Well I am so happy with all the things I got done the other day when I listed my tasks in the morning that I thought I would try it again!

Just a boring mundane list of things but somehow writing them here makes me more accountable to do them or perhaps just doing in the morning sets me going for the day.  I do note that I am getting out of bed more easily in the mornings these days (possibly because I have been getting to bed earlier – although I’m sure I didn’t sleep much/at all last night).

So here goes….

shopping list – ilford photo paper (cartridge world),

corner muncher -monster corner rounder for chipboard mini albums I plan to make at retreat – (Scrappe Angels),

flywire, spline & spline roller to repair front wire door (Bunnings),

Pears (fruit shop/supermarket)

Sleeping bag stuff sack – am thinking that buying just a stuff sack might solve my dilemna of my doona taking up so much room when I pack to go camping and be cheaper than buying myself a sleeping bag right now (kmart).

Am not so thrilled that I will have to drive all over town today and suspect if I do all that I won’t get much else done!

Actually fixing the wire door I will probably leave til evening when the kids are in bed or at least when the big ones are at Joeys as it might be cooler then.  I want to get photos printed from our Grampians holiday and our day at the Tulip festival and start packing my scrap tote for retreat.  I also need to get the portable air con set up again with the thing in the window etc as I suspect we may be needing it.

Am pretty pleased to discover that my front wire door actually closes properly again as it didn’t through winter and in fact I was in the process of demonstrating that it didn’t work when I realised it now does…I was looking into door curtains to keep the flies at bay instead – still need one for the back door (although i may try to hold the door in the frame and see if it is worth attempting to put it back on its hinges too).

EDITED TO ADD

ok I got the shopping done except for the stuff sack as I am simply not going to pay $15 for it – will use a pillow case it will be a bit bigger but I’ll deal with it.

Got a door curtain for the back door for $6 AND installed it! Got the air con set back up and working ahhhh.

Got my other stuff BUT when I went to fix the front door realised I bought the wrong spline…who knew it came in different sizes? I got stuff that was too narrow so won’t work at all.  Will have to shop again and do it another day – just not going back today…besides it is school pick up time already.

Have a little faith..

ok I bet that title has surprised you!

life does not revolve entirely around my new kitchen (doorway is now a wall…still have a window to close up)…

My mum sent me a $50 book voucher for my birthday.  I had plans for today but they were changed  as the friend I was going out to see really wasn’t well so instead I found time for a little shopping.  What to spend my voucher on…I spent a good hour in the book store reading blurbs….I know the old adage of not judging a book by its cover and yet in a book store full of books what is it that first draws you to pick it up.

I picked up many books…this one called ‘Have a little faith’ (by Mitch Albom) I picked up several times and eventually brought home and read the entire book today.    I don’t know what drew me to choose this book but something did and to read a book in a day I obviously enjoyed it.  Not what I usually read was my first thought – but then what do I usually read? It varies these days.  This one was a true story.  It is a beautiful, thought provoking story.

I have more books to read…all different…Angus and Robertson is my favourite bookstore and my local store (I am sure it is the same at others) have a pile of books behind the counter that you can buy for $7 each if you spend $20 first…there is no limit to the number of $7 books you buy.  I have found many gems in that section, although it often means I walk away with 2-3 books (or in this case 4) instead of 1-2.

so what else did I buy….Dirt Music by Tim Winton

and off the $7 shelves….Time of my Life by Allison Winn Scotch

and                                          Days like These by Virginia Duigan

perhaps just as a change from blogging my kitchen I will fill you in on these ones as I read them.

I used to not read because I struggled to put the book down and give the kids the attention they deserved.  These days I realise that it is important for the kids to SEE me reading..to see me LOVING reading…even to see me struggle to put the book down as it shows how much I enjoy it. So let their be books I say!

 

 

checked off the to-do list!

I know I know 2 posts in one day….but then I thought it would be cool to pop in and say that the kitchen is now all (flat packed) and stacked in the scraproom AND I can still access 90% of my stuff.

The stuff got delivered (I outsourced and got one girl to pick them up and deliver).

I went to bunnings for the bits with the guy who was doing the work. Door frame was stuborn – apparently my house is very well built and doesn’t come down easily. He is coming back tomorrow to put the plaster up over the doorway and will do the window probably next week.

The kitchen cupboard got pulled out (with a little help from my friends dh who was here to do the door/window) and was collected (thanks to freecycle) this afternoon.

And I’ve been listening to music from my ipod all day – all in all I’d say a very constructive day!

I am however now thoroughly exhausted.

 

 

little bit tired…but lots to do.

I was up past 1am and am now paying for it. I had a great day/night yesterday. Things are exciting with the kitchen but busy. I got 3 Halloween LOs done last night – one more to do.  Had chocolate cake and cheesecake …..just didn’t have room for the carrot cake too!  Got another pressie too – a full set of purple towels with ‘Jude’ embroided on them lovely and soft too! I was thoroughly spoilt by friends and family yesterday.

Today its down to work.  I am just uploading the last of my 5 cd set ready to put on my iphone and ipod..think I’m going to need some music pumping today!

So todays to do list

upload cds to ipod/iphone

clear more room in scraproom for kitchen cupboards (by noon)

clear out unused kitchen cupboard of last stuff in it plus heaps of stuff on top by 3pm and preferably get it off the wall

get plaster, timber and mortar for the guy who is to brick up the window and block up the doorway

deliver my last SU order around the corner and up the road

ok that’s the absolute essentials for today…I can do that…afterall I have 2.5hrs before noon….ahhh ok quick delivery now while music is going then scraproom then kitchen…not sure when/how I’m gunna manage bunnings though!

Shopping Day!

Man buying an Ikea kitchen is a lot more time consuming than I had thought! Got there at 10 and got back to Werribee at 2.05pm!

Still I have most of the kitchen. There were a few things out of stock which will need another trip in but I have plenty of time and will be able to fit the other things in the car which is good.  Only one cabinet was out of stock the rest is mostly doors.  The best bit about that is that I still got my $300 in vouchers which means that I can go and use the voucher to get the last $325 worth of stuff in effect shaving $300 off my slim kitchen budget and giving me some much needed breathing space.

I don’t have a date yet but as I only faxed the paperwork at midnight I am giving them some breathing space and will call them on Monday morning to organise a date if I don’t hear from him before then.

And I got home to find some cool 80s cds, a voucher from my fav book store and a beautiful handmade card with a note to see the girls at Scrappe’s for my present so that rounds out a pretty good birthday I reckon!

oh except of course – I am off to said Scrappe’s tonight for crop as the kids have now gone to Daddys! A pretty good day all in all. Tomorrow will be busy with the Ikea delivery in the afternoon and hopefully the window being bricked up and the doorway blocked off as well as someone coming to collect one of the old kitchen cupboards. It is all REALLY happening now!  Happy Birthday to me!

Shopping Day tomorrow!

Money transferred to an accessible account. Corey booked into Ikea childcare. Kitchen has been measured and plans confirmed. Have Form printed and am about to fax in to confirm installation (date still unfixed grr). Shopping list printed. Tomorrow is the day!

jobs done..

Corey is booked in at Ikea Smaland for 11am, awaiting a call back from kids new school to organise the orientation visit having chased that up. Have quote for kitchen (which came in ever so slightly under budget). Have organised someone to come brick up window and block in doorway on Saturday. Brad, my kitchen project managar, (yes I still love having a project manager) promised to call me back this evening with a mid December date for my kitchen. He would like to start Tuesday at 7am…I know 7am!!! and finish on the Wednesday when I’m home – apparenlty I don’t need to be here, can go to work still so long as I let them in first.  So it’s all happening. I will feel better with the window bricked up and the plastering done…then just have to rip out the old kitchen, organise the plumbing and electrics, get some plaster where there should be plaster behind the cupboards (where there isn’t any atm)…and maybe just maybe I might possibly have time to splash on some purple paint…now that would be ace!  must check out the cheap paint place (and look at tiles)…..it’s really happening now!

best go get the boys from school/after school sport!

 

Didn’t win anything…

no luck on the Melbourne Cup…oh well there goes another year.

Had fun doing a bit of cardmaking while the kids played.  Had a lovely relaxed day with a bbq lunch. Had my first attempt at painting the kids faces…not completely happy with the results but a bit of practice and I’m sure I will improve…kids were happy so will keep at it.

On the agenda for tomorrow – call the new school or organise the transition, call aussemble to chase up my quote and call Ikea to arrange for Corey to go to the care thingo on Friday morning when I go shopping.