Moving!
As you know, school holidays can be a demanding time although I am generally managing to avoid the stresses too much by ample sleep-ins!
Yesterday Troll and I had to attend her appointment at the orthodontist at the Womens' and Childrens' hospital in the city. We had planned on doing a bit of browsing in the city shops in Rundle Street and the Mall but the traffic was totally chaotic and parking was all full, so we escaped up to Stirling, enjoyed a lovely lunch in a ferny courtyard and then went to the Book Shed (sells cheap second hand books) and came away armed with lots of holiday reading!
Today was shopping day and that has been done. Troll reckons we have half a cow in the fridge! We have movies to watch tonight, books to read and kittens to pat - pretty good holiday really. At this stage it is looking like it will be Monday that we pick up Silly Bitch (our next kitten taming project) from her owner. I have also arranged to return her litter-mate Serenity at the same time, lest we all get far too attached to her. I know troll is already! Here are a couple of photos I took this afternoon:
A chair full of Siamese
Troll enjoying cuddling Serenity while she's still here
In other news, as the title suggests, I am moving. Not moving house, moving rooms. For a while now I have had a yen to have a green workspace. Now that isn't as bilous as it sounds as one can have some very nice greens. However my room is decorated mainly in pink. I have also been thinking for a while about separating my work from my sleep area. The solution all finally gelled when I was in a green loo the other day. I was thinking what a lovely soothing effect the green had (ideal for where I was really!) and again my thoughts turned to wanting a green work area and the solution just popped into my head.
So, I am going to separate my computer area from my sleeping area. I have decided that I am going to replicate a room I had a few years ago where my bedroom was a very small room, but it was MY room - almost like a cubby really as it was so small but big enough for my bed, wardrobe and nightstand and room to move in between the three and that was it. I loved that room because it was MINE. I like to have my space in a house. Ideally the whole house should feel like my home but that isn't always the case when one shares it with others and at that time in my life it was good for me to create my own space.
The time has come to do that again, I feel. My bed gets laid on, lounged on, slept in by every living thing in the house so when I go to use it at night I often have to completely remake it. Also I have an eye to the fact that this year we shall have five other people here for Christmas day and while having the tree in my room is sweet when there is three, it will be a nightmare with eight!
So, I am moving into what is now the lounge room, a tiny little room which is less than 3 metres by 3 metres and that shall be my bedroom. My computer etc shall remain exactly where it is and the lounge shall move into where it technically should have been in the first place. This should create a lot more space in this room as well as giving my sleeping space distance from the social area of the house. And I shall not be digging tinsel out of my bed for months after christmas either!
Now this is no small project. Hundreds of DVDs and books have to be packed up and moved out of the lounge, then the furniture from in there has to be moved out. My waterbed has to be emptied, dismantled and moved. My massive old wardrobe has to be emptied and moved as does the big cheval mirror. All the ceiling drapes have to be untied and moved. Once my bedroom is set up then we have to move the lounge furniture into here, set up the tv/dvd/stereo etc again and then unpack and sort all the dvds and books again. I doubt it will all be done in one weekend, but we shall make good inroads into it I suspect.
Nothing like keeping oneself occupied! it shall be interesting to see how it all turns out - and yes, I have already measured everything to ensure it all fits!
Oh, and today I finally got inspiration as to what I shall write for this year's Nanowrimo project - but that's a secret! Well it is at least within the family. I had written a memorial for my mother and posted it on my other online diary recently (her birthday was on 27 September), and a note from my daughter in Queensland commented on how she enjoyed reading a little of my mother's life as she knows nothing of our family history. She said in many ways she feels like the world began on the day she was born as she knows nothing of what happened before then.
It seems I have been very remiss, and this shall have to be corrected. Therefore I decided this afternoon that I shall write a history of my family in as entertaining a way possible as my project for this year's Nanowrimo. When it is done and edited, I shall print and bind it and give it to her as part of her Christmas gifts when she is down here in December. That way there is a permanant copy that can be handed down (or copied as I shall make disks of it as well) from generation to generation.
I think she will like it and it will give me a nice break from my current project. As soon as I thought of the idea today my imagination was running away with how I would tell it, what I would call it and even the introduction was more than half written before I could discipline myself to put it aside and do my shopping as I needed to do.
Suffice to say I am really pleased with my choice, I have lots of inspiration and ideas and cannot wait for November to start! I was only saying to tygrr tonight that I wonder what Troll will be doing in November as tygrr will be busy with overtime and I shall be busy with Nano! I hope she doesn't get too lonely!
Now though I best get some sleep as I have LOTS of packing to do tomorrow!
Yesterday Troll and I had to attend her appointment at the orthodontist at the Womens' and Childrens' hospital in the city. We had planned on doing a bit of browsing in the city shops in Rundle Street and the Mall but the traffic was totally chaotic and parking was all full, so we escaped up to Stirling, enjoyed a lovely lunch in a ferny courtyard and then went to the Book Shed (sells cheap second hand books) and came away armed with lots of holiday reading!
Today was shopping day and that has been done. Troll reckons we have half a cow in the fridge! We have movies to watch tonight, books to read and kittens to pat - pretty good holiday really. At this stage it is looking like it will be Monday that we pick up Silly Bitch (our next kitten taming project) from her owner. I have also arranged to return her litter-mate Serenity at the same time, lest we all get far too attached to her. I know troll is already! Here are a couple of photos I took this afternoon:
A chair full of Siamese
Troll enjoying cuddling Serenity while she's still here
In other news, as the title suggests, I am moving. Not moving house, moving rooms. For a while now I have had a yen to have a green workspace. Now that isn't as bilous as it sounds as one can have some very nice greens. However my room is decorated mainly in pink. I have also been thinking for a while about separating my work from my sleep area. The solution all finally gelled when I was in a green loo the other day. I was thinking what a lovely soothing effect the green had (ideal for where I was really!) and again my thoughts turned to wanting a green work area and the solution just popped into my head.
So, I am going to separate my computer area from my sleeping area. I have decided that I am going to replicate a room I had a few years ago where my bedroom was a very small room, but it was MY room - almost like a cubby really as it was so small but big enough for my bed, wardrobe and nightstand and room to move in between the three and that was it. I loved that room because it was MINE. I like to have my space in a house. Ideally the whole house should feel like my home but that isn't always the case when one shares it with others and at that time in my life it was good for me to create my own space.
The time has come to do that again, I feel. My bed gets laid on, lounged on, slept in by every living thing in the house so when I go to use it at night I often have to completely remake it. Also I have an eye to the fact that this year we shall have five other people here for Christmas day and while having the tree in my room is sweet when there is three, it will be a nightmare with eight!
So, I am moving into what is now the lounge room, a tiny little room which is less than 3 metres by 3 metres and that shall be my bedroom. My computer etc shall remain exactly where it is and the lounge shall move into where it technically should have been in the first place. This should create a lot more space in this room as well as giving my sleeping space distance from the social area of the house. And I shall not be digging tinsel out of my bed for months after christmas either!
Now this is no small project. Hundreds of DVDs and books have to be packed up and moved out of the lounge, then the furniture from in there has to be moved out. My waterbed has to be emptied, dismantled and moved. My massive old wardrobe has to be emptied and moved as does the big cheval mirror. All the ceiling drapes have to be untied and moved. Once my bedroom is set up then we have to move the lounge furniture into here, set up the tv/dvd/stereo etc again and then unpack and sort all the dvds and books again. I doubt it will all be done in one weekend, but we shall make good inroads into it I suspect.
Nothing like keeping oneself occupied! it shall be interesting to see how it all turns out - and yes, I have already measured everything to ensure it all fits!
Oh, and today I finally got inspiration as to what I shall write for this year's Nanowrimo project - but that's a secret! Well it is at least within the family. I had written a memorial for my mother and posted it on my other online diary recently (her birthday was on 27 September), and a note from my daughter in Queensland commented on how she enjoyed reading a little of my mother's life as she knows nothing of our family history. She said in many ways she feels like the world began on the day she was born as she knows nothing of what happened before then.
It seems I have been very remiss, and this shall have to be corrected. Therefore I decided this afternoon that I shall write a history of my family in as entertaining a way possible as my project for this year's Nanowrimo. When it is done and edited, I shall print and bind it and give it to her as part of her Christmas gifts when she is down here in December. That way there is a permanant copy that can be handed down (or copied as I shall make disks of it as well) from generation to generation.
I think she will like it and it will give me a nice break from my current project. As soon as I thought of the idea today my imagination was running away with how I would tell it, what I would call it and even the introduction was more than half written before I could discipline myself to put it aside and do my shopping as I needed to do.
Suffice to say I am really pleased with my choice, I have lots of inspiration and ideas and cannot wait for November to start! I was only saying to tygrr tonight that I wonder what Troll will be doing in November as tygrr will be busy with overtime and I shall be busy with Nano! I hope she doesn't get too lonely!
Now though I best get some sleep as I have LOTS of packing to do tomorrow!