Fog

I am a bit full of brain fog at the moment (along with a major headache and feeling like I'm walking through treacle). Tomorrow we are off to Soul Survivor with the youth of the church, it should be a really good time and I am hoping this little patch of eurgh passes quickly. I do find that patches of eurgh do tend to go more quickly than they used - hopefully a sign of general getting better.

kitchen

So we had our appointment to sort the kitchen. It turns out that even with a lot of discount the whole thing comes to the amount we have left to do everything that needs doing in the house. So it is kitchen, or be able to decorate, have enough sockets to plug things in, be able to put lawn and plants in the garden, have a decent shed, etc. Needless to say the kitchen did not win. We will get a new oven to replace the funny old one, and put a couple of shelves up and that will be kitchen done. To be fair, the current kitchen is not that old, it is just that there is no under-counter space for a freezer and the oven is old. We think we might use some of the money we save to get a decorator in to do the hall/stairs and maybe some of upstairs.

You may recall I was having a little difficulty with my shoulder a while back. This has carried on, and we found out last week that my right shoulder frequently semi-dislocates. That explains a lot. There is nothing that can be done for it, just take painkillers when it gets bad. I had said to the husband before we went to get the x-ray results that I wanted them to show something, at least it did that.

settled

We already feel really settled into the new house. Everything is unpacked, most things are in the place they will stay. I have a few things to sort through and work out whether to keep or not (like photos, do I really need every picture of every animal I've taken on zoo trips?) We are going to do an ikea run next week to get a table, sideboard and new sofa cover to replace the one that went mouldy in storage. We have an appointment at homebase at the weekend to plan a new kitchen (half price and then an extra 15% off, can't say no to that!). And then we just need to get an electrician in to fit some extra sockets and we are ready to decorate. In fairness there is nothing that needs decorating, but we would rather get a fresh coat of paint on the walls before we get too settled in. We are going to be boring beige the whole way through and then use curtains etc to add colour - will make it easier and cheaper all round. I love living here, and I am no longer living on the sofa which is doing my health no end of good. The husband says he can already notice a marked difference in me.

new

We are all in the new house. Thanks to our army of helpers we have more unpacked than I thought we would by this point, which is lovely. I have realised that a lot of the things I had put in storage just over 18 months ago I probably don't need any more. Many of them were things that we kept thinking that if I had six months of not working I would then be ready to start work again and so I kept lots of work stuff. However, even though I am close to be ready to start work again, I am no where near ready to do the kind of job I used to do, that is a long long way off if it ever comes. So a lot of the work stuff is now going to be recycled or thrown. We have decided to try and not put things other than furniture in the spare bedrooms, so that if people need to stay for short or long periods it can feel like their own room and not a bed in someone else's room.