Day Three!

HOORAH! The fitters are done! They finished about 5.30 this afternoon...so next we have to wait for the plasterer to come, then the tiler, then next week matt is going to get new flooring, and then after that our mate Neil is going to decorate it! I'm so pleased with it already! It already looks so much bigger than it did before and i'm going to enjoy it! The plan is to keep it clutter free!

Right...off to watch Desperate Housewives!

Day Two!

Well as you see it seems to be coming along pretty well! Matt cleverly figured out about the different colour of the cupboards, and thats because the lighter cupboards are the ones that you are not going to be able to see the sides of..and the ones that you can see the sides of have a slightly darker side.....that make any sense to you? Anyway as you can see the cupboards are now looking fine and the guys reckon they will be done on there bit by Thursday! We will then need to get the plasterer in to tidy up the bit which is going to be tiles and then the tiler will be coming in! Matt's going to try and get some flooring next week!

Slightly less stressful today so thats a relief!!

Bekky had her school review today...bless her she's coming a long a treat! When we went last time her teacher said she wasn't that confident about reading....but this time she said she had really improved on her reading...you can tell she loves it by the way she brings home about 7 books to read before bedtime! I was really proud!

I also had my work review which went well today! Michael didn't seem to have anything negative to say about me at all! Brilliant!

Just got back from the cinema where i went with some girlie friends to see Becoming Jane. It was truly beautiful!!! Just my cup of tea!!!

Day One!

The above pictures are what the kitchen looked like this morning before the workmen arrived! The microwave and new cupboard arrived this mornong and then the workmen at about 9.00. I left for work at 9.30...then got a phone call about 11 to say that they had burst a water pipe! For crying out loud!!!! They tried to make out that it was our fault the pipes are old...but i reckon things like that should be picked up in the survey...so the plumber i had called spoke to the workmen and then called me back to tell us to ring Kitchens direct and get them to pay for it! So matt called them, and they have agreed to pay for it and we just need to hear from them as to how that will work! Hopefully that won't take too long as it is temporarily repaired and could go at anytime!

So i arrived home from work and the kitchen now looks like this......




As you can see one of the cupboards looks like its a slightly different colour so will have to talk to them about that tommorrow. Hopefully they will arrive before we leave for Bekky's parent/teacher conference!

We're Ready

Looks like we're finally ready for the kitchen fitters tommorrow! They are due between 8 & 9, so once they are in i can go off to work and just let them get on with it. The living room doesn't look too bad considering and i've stocked up on food that can be microwaved! We've got a little box in the lounge which has all we should need for the week! Anyway will be great to finally have it started!

Can't think of anything else to write about....too tired!!!xx

New Hair

Not normally keen on posting photos of myself but wanted to show off my new haircut...i'm so pleased with it! It took Tracy forever due to the fact that my hair was long and black when i got there this morning! Anyway i'm so chuffed i had it done and was definately the right cut to choose....well i think so anyway.

Kitchen drama has moved on slightly.....nobody had called me by lunchtime today so i phoned them again and spoke to 'surveys' who were meant to be calling me, and they said i needed to speak to 'customer care' who then put me on a voicemail and i had to leave a message...anyway they do seem to listen to their messages and she called me back to say she had spoken to the technical department and that they are still coming monday to start and someone from the technical department will ring me! Anyway he did (they must b going for a record today) and he said the microwave and new cupboard has been ordered and will either come saturday morning or sometime monday.....so it's all looking ok now! Just got the last bit of sorting to do and then we'll be ready!!!

Slightly less AARRGGHHH...but it's sill there!

Well the update is that they didn't get back to me, i had to call them again at 3 and leave a message and then again at 5...and the result is that the surveyor is going to ring me tommorrow to see what th best way forward is! I'm not taking any mucking about.......!!!!!

Thats my second rant of the day over!

Just picked up Boo from school and she's a bit hyper sensitive today....burst into tears twice in M & S...but seems to have calmed down now that we are back home!

I need beer and chocolate!!!

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH

Question: How hard can it be to deliver one of these with the kitchen order?
Answer: Extremely

The new kitchen was delivered this morning and is now spread over various rooms in the house. Thats fine and doesn't bother me.....what has bothered me is that after getting the survey redone to include the above item...they have still delivered the first order! So i am assuming that includes the old cupboards which will be replaced by the above item! I'm so cross (ask Bee and Mark and Matt) that i could barely speak to them about it. Anyway, i have and they were meant to be ringing me back about half an hour ago. I'll give them till about 2.30 and then i'm going to be back on the phone! They don't want to be messing me about today....i'm not in the mood now! They'll have to deliver the microwave next week whilst they are making a start on the rest of the kitchen!

Managed to do a really good clean out of the kitchen cupboards last night and now we only have to sort out the drinks cupboard and the food cupboard! Shouldn't be that hard and i was pleased with the progress that i made!

Can't speak about it anymore now!

Sun, Rain, Hail, Snow, Sleet, Wind

That's what it seems to have done today! If it wasn't one it was the other!

Good day at work today...managed to get lots of bits done that had been sitting in my tray for a week or so...but felt like they had been there for months! Got my review next week...GULP!

Weekend was nice....Matt's parents came round for lunch which was lovely...boo wasn't really that well..got a cold and a runny nose! I got some lovely stuff from l'Occitane(?) for Mother's Day, really nice bubble bath and a lip gloss and rub on perfume in a little tin...all lovely and now hidden away from Bekky, she sees them and i might as well kiss them goodbye! I also got a flower from church, Matt had to give it to me in the end as she had some kind of hissy fit about giving it to me! Bless her!!!!

Having a little wobble about my haircut...worried about:
a - it being too short for me
b - it suiting me
c - being too high maintenance

sure that's all normal when you are going for something different.....

Not much planned for this evening...Matt's out so i could do a bit of clearing up in the kitchen...but no, it's a monday night and it America's Next Top Model night....i know it's the recap night...but you never know i may have missed something in the previous episodes which was important. Plus i have the end of Shipwrecked to watch...oh and ER...hmmm....lots of tv!

Progress!

Progress has been made on cleaning out the kitchen....the bookshelves which were in there are now upstairs in Boo's room and the table is now in the lounge. We're going to be living in chaos but it's going to be worth it. They are delivering the new kitchen on Wednesday so we need to make room for that!

Been a big rugby day today with the end of the Six Nations....France won overall which i was quite pleased about...but it was very close! Sadly England didn't have a great game against Wales!

Good news is that Kyran won 'Dancing on Ice'...I was very pleased about that and next week is Champions of Champions....Matt looked thrilled!!

As you can see i have now got the hang of putting the links in...what fun I can now have!

New Hair!

This is how i'm going to get my hair cut! Hope it's going to look ok! And not be too high maintenance either! Apparantly Honey in Eastenders has just had hers done so i need to watch that Sunday to see what I think, but i'm going to go for it anyway...be nice to have a change and to have my highlights back in!

Manic day at work today....been doing the magazine for the AGM meeting!

Not loads planned for the weekend...3 rugby games tommorrow so don't imagine that we will venture far and then Matt's parents are coming for lunch on Sunday and Matt is cooking so i'll look forward to that.

Matt's just come in from work with a jar of Marmite with Guiness which he got given from Gill at work.....expect he'll love that! In aid of St Patricks Day!

Painful!

I'm back...and yes it was painful! To be honest he did do me a favour...he's been bugging me for ages about going to the hygienist and i keep putting off as it's almost more painful than the actual dentist.....anyway i got into the chair....he'd already told me i looked like i was going to be sick! He injected my gum TWICE which i thought was a bit odd as he's not done that before when repairing my tooth and he repaired the tooth and then proceeded to do the hygienists job! Man, i was really crying!!! anyway all done now and £90 (!) lighter!!!

Done now tho and they look much better!!!!

Waiting.......

I'm just waiting for the surveyor to come and look at the kitchen again to build in the microwave. Then after that i'll have to wait for my dreaded dentist appointment! Shouldn't be in there long tho and hopefully he won't get too cross with me!

Seem to have sorted the links thing out.....i downloaded firefox and if i access my blog through there all the little buttons are on the top of the page....we still can't seem to copy and paste the links in but that's not the end of the world!

Well the surveyor has just been and microwave is now in place!

Off to the dentist now!!! AAARRGGGHHHHHH!!!!

Links

Does anyone out there know how to put a link into your post?

Clearly my take that one below didn't work!!!!

HELPPPPPPP

Good or not?

Wonder what this will be like?

Guess it will either be a brilliant chance for a sing along...or it'll be slightly on the naff side! I will of course have to go and see it!

The Delayed Kitchen

Well, i finally managed to speak to someone at Kitchen's Direct after spending another lunch hour calling them! They then called me back to say it was all going ahead as normal....then they called again to say that the surveyor needs to come back out and redo the bit where the microwave is going. so it's now going to be delivered next week and then they will fit it the week after.....gives us a bit more time to clear out the ktichen which is good...it's getting there slowly!

Got an appointment at the dentist tommrrow at 11.30.....already worried about it....but guess it will be fine and i won't be in there long!

Getting my hair cut next week! this is what i'm thinking of going for.......a graduated bob....i'll look for a pic later and post it!

Right better go and hang out the washing!!!

The beginning of the week

Well it's Monday agin and the start of another week! Not been a bad day for a monday...we are working on the magazine at work so that will keep me busy this week. It's my mate Bee's birthday tommorrow so we are off to the pub tommorrow evening! Kitchen is meant to be arriving on Thursday but i realised to day that the microwave was not in the plans and when i checked them it hadn't been put in the original order...so we're currently waiting for them to ring back and let us know what we can do! Guess the options are going to be getting the surveyor in to do it all again, or hopefully get the money back for that bit and go for it as it is! Anyway, hopefully they will get back to me tommorrow sometime!

And to end the day nicely my tooth broke! And its at the front!!! Charming!

Fingers Crossed

Well hopefully we have cracked the internet problem on the computer. I rang Applecare during my lunch break yesterday and spoke to 'Brian' who was very helpful considering i don't really know that much about computers and i kept uttering the words 'sorry, where is that on the laptop'.....but eventually he worked out i needed to download a programme (couldn't tell you what it was called) so he kindly emailed it to me and i cleverly put it on Matt's memory stick, transferred it on here and TA DAH!!! i've been online ever since! It flicked off a couple of times yesterday evening but came straight back on so i can cope with that! Anyway, big thanks to Brian! Not that i think he'll be reading this!

Not done much today which has been nice....tommorrow i am off to Norwich to meet up with Mum for the day and wander round the shops. She needs to get Boo a birthday present and we need to look for Andrew's birthday present too if we have the time! Hopefully all the trains will be running as last time i went for the day i was delayed for an hour which was just typical.....but not really what you want when you are only there for a few hours anyway!

Kitchen

We're getting a new kitchen! Kitchens Direct came last night and we're going ahead with it! It's going to look so lovely!!!!! Anyway, they rang just now to say they would like to start fitting it on March 19th...thats pretty soon! No doubt it's going to be complete chaos and pretty stressfull all round...but it is so going to be worth it.

Still not having much luck with the MAC! For some reason it seems to be fine during the day but loses the internet connection in the evening which is when i'm at home wanting to do stuff on it! Pretty annoying! Anyway i'm going to ring Applecare a bit later and see what they say if not you can take it to the shop where they have a desk where they can look at it! It's so annoying to get something new and exciting and not be able to use it properly!

Kew Gardens

Had a lovely day out yeserday at Kew Gardens with Matt's parents...weather was lovely except for a little dowpour, but we were having lunch so didn't affect us at all. It's a really nice place to go to for the day and really easy to get to from our house! Boo seemed to enjoy herself to and did quite a bit of skipping along the paths.

The internet connection went down last night which caused the MAC to put up a funny little message when i turned it on...was very frustrating and Andrew tried to help me sort it out to no avail...then this morning it was still the same, so spoke to Mark and he just suggested turning it all off and start again...and bingo...here i am!

Poor Boo has got a cough and a cold.....the cough has given her a bad headache as well...but we both had a sleep this afternoon and her headache seems to have gone! I always quite like the idea of a sunday afternoon sleep...but i think i actually feel worse afterwards and now we have to hope that Bekky goes to sleep tonight too!

Well i had better get the tea done before Shipwrecked is on later!

Fun!

As you can see Matt has been having fun with the "PhotoBooth" option on the MAC.

This evening i've been playing games on here with andrew which was pretty cool .....even he didn't know you could do that!

Anyway i should call it a night!

p.s I am still excited!!!!

HHHOOORRRAAAYYY!!!!!!!

We're going again!!!! Courtesy of causing Jenny a lot of stress she managed to get some tickets this morning! They were pretty pricey but who cares!!! We're going!
Just heard on the radio they sold 370,000 tickets in three hours!

Am i going to be this excited till December? YES!
Should i maybe get a grip as i'm 33 years old? MAYBE!
Am I bovverred? NOOOOOO!!!!!

The Mac has arrived

We have the MAC! I like it! Andrew was incredibly helpful in letting me know what i needed to do......got my MSN sorted and also my IPOD is back in use.....with Take That on it....so that's brilliant! Think its going to be quite cool having this!

Not done that much the past couple of days...was really sick yesterday so that was prety unpleasant....fortunately Bekky was a complete angel after school and more or less just let my lay on the sofa! Feeling much better today. Tuesday evening we went to Rob's Licensing as a Chaplain at St George's which was nice......Matt, Jenny and Charlotte were there and also Diana, so was lovely to see them all!

Not got any plans for the weekend which is nice...so not sure what we'll do!