Struggling With Practicality

As you can tell from my title, at this very moment I am struggling to be practical. I want to be practical, I need to be practical but its turning out to be harder than I thought.

Let me explain, we need a new toaster, kettle and iron. These things did not follow us from the old house so we need them. I know practically its best to buy something basic and workable that doesnt need to be brightly coloured and shiny, they are going to be behind closed doors so not on display. I know this but do you think this stops me from looking at all the pretty options and thinking .... can I?

I want to be practical, I need to be practical but god its hard! What do you think, I mean really, its a bloody kettle not an arm chair or anything ... I really need to suck it up and be good with my money and focus on more important things .... like lighting!

Its a kettle .... I need to keep telling myself that.

Drama's on the Western Front

 

I don't know if you have heard but the West has been hit by a number of large storms over the last few days and although our house survived hale and hearty our side fence did not.

We are not the only ones dealing with this drama - boats have been beached, power lines down, roofs have been lifted and trees everywhere are screaming in protest at the rough treatment.

Some area's have no power and have been told it may take up to a week to get back!

I must say after 48 hours powerless I do enjoy my electricity. Life is so boring without power and my phone is dead .... I don't think I can survive without a phone!

 

 

 

Our House .... Is a very very very SMART house!

So we have this lovely touch screen security system installed because I just can't figure out how to use a normal security system.

That's right, I struggle with the whole concept of using electronics. Ok I will admit alarm clocks, ovens, TV's with multiple remotes and security systems in particular set my hair on end .... I just cant seem to figure out how to work the damn things!

One thing that I can work is my IPhone and this little baby is almost as clever as that. I can switch the system on or off, it has really cute little security pictures where away shows a person walking away from the door .... well duhhh. It also has this messenger service so I can leave hubby cute little voice messages for when he comes home.

Slightly OTT - Maybe! Making life easier for me - Definitely!

When it Rains it Pours

In so many ways this title is relevant at the moment. It seems that when one thing goes wrong everything follows and this week for me I am nearly broken.

So many things have gone wrong or people have let us down and although usually I can just sigh and realise "things happen" today I just cant seem to make out the light at the end of the tunnel.

Let us hope that with sleep and a little bit of Scotch the light shines brighter tomorrow!

A Sneak Peak

The last week has been exhausting ... emotionally and physically exhausting. I wont go into all the gritty details but I am so tired that my head hurts.

The upside of all of this is that the physical exhaustion is due to a hell of alot of progress on the house front. I have managed to get things moving on the house front and this brings me a quandary. Do I show you overall pictures so you can see it moving forward of give you sneak peeks and a final reveal when things are happening.

I have decided on the sneak peek approach and this is the first sneak peek of bedroom .... the colours and textures are all blending beautifully and I cant wait to finally move in!

Reliving My Youth

10 years ago hubby and I met at the ice rink ... I was a young 19 year old totally bessotted with the big burly ice hockey player with the nice smile.

10 years on and I can embarrasingly say I am still totally besotted but obviously alot less young. I also seem to have lost any skating abilities I once had.

Hubby was feeling a bit the same - about an hour in he looked at me and said .... we used to do this for 4 hours? Im bored and buggered after 50 minutes!

Lets just say we both slept extremely well that night and the next day woke up a little bit stiffer than normal!

Flooring - Check

 

So my floor is now done and it looks amazing - its not too dark but has the most amazing colours running through it I just can say enough good things about it. It also has a texture to it which ... while not exactly wood like is lovely to walk along.

The pictures are at night so you may have to wait until the weekend for more .... accurate colours (Im blaming winter for allowing me less daylight to admire the house) but overall I am extremely happy with how it has turned out.