Late 2011 onwards
Well hello again! Long time no see.
So 2012 is finally here, the year of the Olympics. Olympics = MURDER GETTING TO BLOODY WORK. Ugh. Nevermind.
Anyway, I had a brief thought while waiting for a job to come in today while at work. Yes I am writing this while at work but shhh.
A big life event happened late 2011 and I thought I should document this occasion somewhere on the interwebs. It's already on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, but they were only brief shout outs. So back to Livejournal for another exciting news story in the land of Katie.
December 28th 2011. Paul and I got ourselves a flat together (yay!). Move in day was the 28th but we didn't actually settle until about two weeks ago now.
It came as a shock to a lot of people: parents, family and a few mates who I imagined would say congrats the moment they heard but didn't. Shame. Oh well.
I think the initial thought my parents had was probably that it's all come around quite quickly. To be honest, I'm not bothered really. They've been fully behind me through all of this and I am so grateful. Probably the same though with my other family members. My cousin moved in with his girlfriend after about 6 months of going out with her and it flopped. They ran out of money, he had to sell his car and he ended up moving back to his parents' house, with her too. they're still together and happy as ever. Good for them! :)
Anyway. Paul and I have been together for way over a year now and it has been brilliant. We thought about moving in together for months, and didn't actually go for it and start looking for quite a while.
I don't regret the move at all. I love it.
I do miss home sometimes (even though I was desperate to get out of there quite a lot), but that's to be expected for the first few weeks/months. It's a big step from having your parents cook, look after you, pay the bills, buy food, and do chores and stuff, to doing it all yourself literally overnight. It did really hit home one night a couple of weeks ago and I was really down, but looking on the bright side, I have a lot more independence now (more than before) and it feels good.
We've still not got *everything* we need to (how do I explain this...) live fully...? We don't have a TV, but we have internet so iPlayer and Demand 5 ahoy! Tumble dryer being delivered on Saturday (29th Jan). We already have sofa/s, dining table and chairs, bed, the essential basics to live basically. Yet to get my wardrobe out of my parents' house and Paul's desk in from his parents'. All in good time.
I never wanted to be (and never plan to be) a typical house wife type of person. However it is becoming more so already.
Ok, I do get home from work before Paul so I start the dinner. I'm not bothered about that. I do most of the washing up and tidying up too. Hah. Nevermind. Don't get me wrong, he's helpful. I'm not saying he isn't, at all. We do our fair share of things. After all, he drives me to places that maybe he doesn't want to go, but still does. I guess we do each other favours and just don't really realize them at the time we're doing them.
SO. After blabbing on, I would hope you have the jist of what's going on at present. Still stuff to sort and do, but we're getting there. It's long, tiring, and expensive, but fun.
I love waking up and coming home after work and seeing that cheeky, cute, smiley face of his every day. After the the most crap or tiring days, it's so nice to come home to that.
Except when he's had a bad day and not smiley. Heh. I like trying to make him feel better by making jokes, hugging and making him cups of tea and stuff like that.
I hope it works...
More flat related news shall probably be posted as they happen. Topic is closed for now.
In other news, Paul became and Uncle again to Matilda Mae Skinner. Eeeee she's so cute! I get called Auntie Katie but...yeah you know (I'm not married lol). A nice thought though and I quite like it. :)
_______________________time goes past, work, work, work...___________________
Ok so I'm not at work now. Just got home and lost the swing of thought... and I have cooking to do.
So. Ta-ta for now.
Katie
So 2012 is finally here, the year of the Olympics. Olympics = MURDER GETTING TO BLOODY WORK. Ugh. Nevermind.
Anyway, I had a brief thought while waiting for a job to come in today while at work. Yes I am writing this while at work but shhh.
A big life event happened late 2011 and I thought I should document this occasion somewhere on the interwebs. It's already on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, but they were only brief shout outs. So back to Livejournal for another exciting news story in the land of Katie.
December 28th 2011. Paul and I got ourselves a flat together (yay!). Move in day was the 28th but we didn't actually settle until about two weeks ago now.
It came as a shock to a lot of people: parents, family and a few mates who I imagined would say congrats the moment they heard but didn't. Shame. Oh well.
I think the initial thought my parents had was probably that it's all come around quite quickly. To be honest, I'm not bothered really. They've been fully behind me through all of this and I am so grateful. Probably the same though with my other family members. My cousin moved in with his girlfriend after about 6 months of going out with her and it flopped. They ran out of money, he had to sell his car and he ended up moving back to his parents' house, with her too. they're still together and happy as ever. Good for them! :)
Anyway. Paul and I have been together for way over a year now and it has been brilliant. We thought about moving in together for months, and didn't actually go for it and start looking for quite a while.
I don't regret the move at all. I love it.
I do miss home sometimes (even though I was desperate to get out of there quite a lot), but that's to be expected for the first few weeks/months. It's a big step from having your parents cook, look after you, pay the bills, buy food, and do chores and stuff, to doing it all yourself literally overnight. It did really hit home one night a couple of weeks ago and I was really down, but looking on the bright side, I have a lot more independence now (more than before) and it feels good.
We've still not got *everything* we need to (how do I explain this...) live fully...? We don't have a TV, but we have internet so iPlayer and Demand 5 ahoy! Tumble dryer being delivered on Saturday (29th Jan). We already have sofa/s, dining table and chairs, bed, the essential basics to live basically. Yet to get my wardrobe out of my parents' house and Paul's desk in from his parents'. All in good time.
I never wanted to be (and never plan to be) a typical house wife type of person. However it is becoming more so already.
Ok, I do get home from work before Paul so I start the dinner. I'm not bothered about that. I do most of the washing up and tidying up too. Hah. Nevermind. Don't get me wrong, he's helpful. I'm not saying he isn't, at all. We do our fair share of things. After all, he drives me to places that maybe he doesn't want to go, but still does. I guess we do each other favours and just don't really realize them at the time we're doing them.
SO. After blabbing on, I would hope you have the jist of what's going on at present. Still stuff to sort and do, but we're getting there. It's long, tiring, and expensive, but fun.
I love waking up and coming home after work and seeing that cheeky, cute, smiley face of his every day. After the the most crap or tiring days, it's so nice to come home to that.
Except when he's had a bad day and not smiley. Heh. I like trying to make him feel better by making jokes, hugging and making him cups of tea and stuff like that.
I hope it works...
More flat related news shall probably be posted as they happen. Topic is closed for now.
In other news, Paul became and Uncle again to Matilda Mae Skinner. Eeeee she's so cute! I get called Auntie Katie but...yeah you know (I'm not married lol). A nice thought though and I quite like it. :)
_______________________time goes past, work, work, work...___________________
Ok so I'm not at work now. Just got home and lost the swing of thought... and I have cooking to do.
So. Ta-ta for now.
Katie