Kill me now...
...I have the sort of cold where death seems like a sane and preferable option. I have been sneezing explosively for the last four days - the sort of sneezing where you wonder if perhaps your brains have just shot out of your nose. Also, smells hurt. WTF is that about? Surely with a cold you're supposed to not be able to smell things, they shouldn't hurt! After half a day of thinking that perhaps I felt fractionally better than yesterday, this evening I suddenly started feeling much, much worse because my body suddenly treated me to the delights of swollen glands in my armpit and my neck. If I develop black buboes, I promise to go to the doctor...
Poor Cat also has this but fortunately not quite as drastically. The Kidlet is a bit stuffed up but he is in love for the first time, so his immune system can shrug off colds with a merry laugh. I am also in love but unfortunately after 14 years it no longer provides quite the same tonic effect!
Oh, and the bedroom is looking great. I managed to strip two of the walls in the end and the remaining one is not as obnoxious a pattern, so I didn't mind leaving it although if I'd had more time I would have done it. Z was able to slap three coats of paint on during the space of a day and even though it's just a temporary stopgap job, it looks pretty good. She's a goddess!
I've got candles arranged in there, the bed is made up with my lovely bedlinen and my rugs are down on the floor - I don't know why I didn't think to do this before. The blind still needs to go up and I have some stuff to move back into the wardrobe and some drawers to clear out, but overall it's a much nicer place to be.
The mattress came and I think it's comfortable but it's a bit hard to tell because I'm so achy from the damn cold. Unfortunately it turns out that Ikea kingsize and normal kingsize are not the same and so my mattress is ten centimetres smaller than the damn frame and yes, I do know that I should have measured the frame. But I didn't. Because I'm an idiot!
The only place that seem to make the stupid Ikea size is Ikea and I don't want an Ikea mattress (had one of those on the bedframe originally and it was not at all comfortable). I probably don't want to give the nice expensive mattress back, so I'm going to be looking out for a new frame in the January sales. Or maybe just living with the slight discrepancy for a while depending on finances. The mattress is so solid and good that it doesn't move an inch on the frame even though there's a gap at one side, so I could live with it for a while if I had to. I want to pick up a reading lamp, a wall hanging, a low bookshelf and ideally a new bedside table and they might be more of a priority than a new frame.
OK, it's cold down here, I'm off to cuddle up in my lovely room with my book, my hot water bottle and the candles and incense going.
Poor Cat also has this but fortunately not quite as drastically. The Kidlet is a bit stuffed up but he is in love for the first time, so his immune system can shrug off colds with a merry laugh. I am also in love but unfortunately after 14 years it no longer provides quite the same tonic effect!
Oh, and the bedroom is looking great. I managed to strip two of the walls in the end and the remaining one is not as obnoxious a pattern, so I didn't mind leaving it although if I'd had more time I would have done it. Z was able to slap three coats of paint on during the space of a day and even though it's just a temporary stopgap job, it looks pretty good. She's a goddess!
I've got candles arranged in there, the bed is made up with my lovely bedlinen and my rugs are down on the floor - I don't know why I didn't think to do this before. The blind still needs to go up and I have some stuff to move back into the wardrobe and some drawers to clear out, but overall it's a much nicer place to be.
The mattress came and I think it's comfortable but it's a bit hard to tell because I'm so achy from the damn cold. Unfortunately it turns out that Ikea kingsize and normal kingsize are not the same and so my mattress is ten centimetres smaller than the damn frame and yes, I do know that I should have measured the frame. But I didn't. Because I'm an idiot!
The only place that seem to make the stupid Ikea size is Ikea and I don't want an Ikea mattress (had one of those on the bedframe originally and it was not at all comfortable). I probably don't want to give the nice expensive mattress back, so I'm going to be looking out for a new frame in the January sales. Or maybe just living with the slight discrepancy for a while depending on finances. The mattress is so solid and good that it doesn't move an inch on the frame even though there's a gap at one side, so I could live with it for a while if I had to. I want to pick up a reading lamp, a wall hanging, a low bookshelf and ideally a new bedside table and they might be more of a priority than a new frame.
OK, it's cold down here, I'm off to cuddle up in my lovely room with my book, my hot water bottle and the candles and incense going.