I think I'm doing myself no good by putting the countdown on my blog. Everytime I see it and realise how close I am to going back home, I get more and more panicky. Sure I want to go home. But truth be told, there's still so much to be done before I can leave. Trouble is the tickets been booked and paid for so we have to leave whether I complete all my tasks or not.
What's the delay you might ask. Everything's put on hold just because the contracts have not been exchanged and it was supposed to happen last week. No exchange means I can't give notice to my landlord. I can't place an order for the floorings. I can't buy paint. I can't confirm with my boss when I will be away. This delay, in turn, means that I have less time to get the house ready before we move. Now, we may have to leave things to when we return from Singapore. Oh I just can't imagine that. But if we have to do it that way, then it has to be done so.
At least I've completed my sis-in-law's wedding invite design. Next will be deciding on the flowers for the bouquets and bridal car. We kind of know what we want but need to check with the florists the availability of the flowers. Other than that, I think I've nothing to worry about until I reach Singapore.
Floorings. My poor girls. Everytime I ask them to get changed, they'll ask where we're going. We've been making so many trips to carpet shops they are now scared of it. Which child can be bothered about carpets? So we try to explain to them that we want to create a nice home for them. There are now so many pieces of samples in the house you can lay them out to create a patchwork. We also took home a piece of underlay to get a feel of how the carpet will be like when fitted. A and I will step on different samples everyday and we've come to the conclusion that the nicest one is the 6ply yarn which feels really thick and plush. Thing is I'm not so keen on the colour. It looks like a dirty beige. Will go to the shop tomorrow to see if they carry the right shade I want.
Paint. I need to paint the master room, girls' room, part of playroom, living room and dining room. I've got the colour charts BUT we haven't decided on the colour. The existing colour in the what would be the girls' room matches the base colour of the wallpaper. But Louisa doesn't want a 'cream room'. She wants a pink one. So I'm going to choose a very soft pink for her. As for the master room, I can't decide between eau de nil or fawn. But since the table lampshades are in eau de nil, I think it's better to have fawn. As much as I like neutral colours, I also fancy dark colours like those you see in 'Extreme Makeover-Home Edition'. But my dining room is not very big. So even though dark colours make a room appear cosy, they also make it look smaller. I'm still veered towards Olive or if I'm bold enough, redcurrant on a feature wall! The very big job will be taking down the wallpaper in the living room. If we keep it, it'll dictate the colours and decorations in the room which we don't like - black and gold. By the look of things, I don't think I have enough time to take it down and give the wall a lick of paint. I'll just have to concentrate on painting the walls upstairs and not worry about messing up the existing carpets as they'll be ripped up and replaced by new ones.
Wallpaper. They'll have to wait until I come back from my holiday.
Packing and Move. We engaged the service of professional movers the last time. It was expensive but less of a hassle and everything was moved in one single trip. This time, I wonder if we should do the same since we're not moving somewhere far. Will renting a big van do the job? But we need a few strong men to help. Also, my back is not as strong as before. Should I take the risk? After packing a few boxes and moving them around yesterday, it was sore this morning. My boss kept telling me not to move any heavy stuff but if I don't do it, who will? This time round, I'm packing room by room rather than all over the place. I've tackled my own room and have moved on to the girls' room. Upstairs look messy now with cartons stacked against walls. But I console myself that the more boxes I pack, the closer I am to moving, though I'm not looking forward to THE MOVE at all.
Summer is the time when many events happen at schools. Summer fetes, sports days and whatnots. They're going to take up more of my precious time which I'm lacking of. Told you before I'm bad at multi-tasking. A friend had said that what I'm going to do is a tall order. How I wish there's a few of me.
What's the delay you might ask. Everything's put on hold just because the contracts have not been exchanged and it was supposed to happen last week. No exchange means I can't give notice to my landlord. I can't place an order for the floorings. I can't buy paint. I can't confirm with my boss when I will be away. This delay, in turn, means that I have less time to get the house ready before we move. Now, we may have to leave things to when we return from Singapore. Oh I just can't imagine that. But if we have to do it that way, then it has to be done so.
At least I've completed my sis-in-law's wedding invite design. Next will be deciding on the flowers for the bouquets and bridal car. We kind of know what we want but need to check with the florists the availability of the flowers. Other than that, I think I've nothing to worry about until I reach Singapore.
Floorings. My poor girls. Everytime I ask them to get changed, they'll ask where we're going. We've been making so many trips to carpet shops they are now scared of it. Which child can be bothered about carpets? So we try to explain to them that we want to create a nice home for them. There are now so many pieces of samples in the house you can lay them out to create a patchwork. We also took home a piece of underlay to get a feel of how the carpet will be like when fitted. A and I will step on different samples everyday and we've come to the conclusion that the nicest one is the 6ply yarn which feels really thick and plush. Thing is I'm not so keen on the colour. It looks like a dirty beige. Will go to the shop tomorrow to see if they carry the right shade I want.
Paint. I need to paint the master room, girls' room, part of playroom, living room and dining room. I've got the colour charts BUT we haven't decided on the colour. The existing colour in the what would be the girls' room matches the base colour of the wallpaper. But Louisa doesn't want a 'cream room'. She wants a pink one. So I'm going to choose a very soft pink for her. As for the master room, I can't decide between eau de nil or fawn. But since the table lampshades are in eau de nil, I think it's better to have fawn. As much as I like neutral colours, I also fancy dark colours like those you see in 'Extreme Makeover-Home Edition'. But my dining room is not very big. So even though dark colours make a room appear cosy, they also make it look smaller. I'm still veered towards Olive or if I'm bold enough, redcurrant on a feature wall! The very big job will be taking down the wallpaper in the living room. If we keep it, it'll dictate the colours and decorations in the room which we don't like - black and gold. By the look of things, I don't think I have enough time to take it down and give the wall a lick of paint. I'll just have to concentrate on painting the walls upstairs and not worry about messing up the existing carpets as they'll be ripped up and replaced by new ones.
Wallpaper. They'll have to wait until I come back from my holiday.
Packing and Move. We engaged the service of professional movers the last time. It was expensive but less of a hassle and everything was moved in one single trip. This time, I wonder if we should do the same since we're not moving somewhere far. Will renting a big van do the job? But we need a few strong men to help. Also, my back is not as strong as before. Should I take the risk? After packing a few boxes and moving them around yesterday, it was sore this morning. My boss kept telling me not to move any heavy stuff but if I don't do it, who will? This time round, I'm packing room by room rather than all over the place. I've tackled my own room and have moved on to the girls' room. Upstairs look messy now with cartons stacked against walls. But I console myself that the more boxes I pack, the closer I am to moving, though I'm not looking forward to THE MOVE at all.
Summer is the time when many events happen at schools. Summer fetes, sports days and whatnots. They're going to take up more of my precious time which I'm lacking of. Told you before I'm bad at multi-tasking. A friend had said that what I'm going to do is a tall order. How I wish there's a few of me.
5 comments:
Is that why you disabled the countdown gadget?? Haha!!
Anyway, very exciting times ahead, oh oh oh! And yes, I feel the same about summer, I just feel the day's are so short (although the contrary is happening).. love love love summer time!
I didn't disable it. Has it been disabled?
Dun risk ur back- u have enough on ur plate already! :)
Mel,
Advice noted. THanks! I'll try to get as much help as I can.
Ros : Oh, I thought it was! But it was prob just down or there was a connection prob earlier. Now it looks fine again.
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