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Bad timing
Apr. 30th, 2007 01:35 pmIt’s amazing how tiring it can be to spend money! Actually, it’s all the walking around. Saturday we looked at lights for the new kitchen. Finally found some – bought them. Then we went to Bunnings and bought various tools and bits for tiling. Then we bought the new canopy range hood (fortunately, they have a deliver policy that means we can get it delivered shortly before we need it). The World of Beers to buy some more Moo Brew and Blackwattle Beer.
Sunday saw us back at Bunnings getting fibre cement underlay for the tiles and a circular saw for all the things that will eventually have to be cut.
The rest of the weekend was spent on housework, pulling up flooring, laying out Australian Physics and Writing on the Wowld.
I need more time in my weeks, but I’m actually going to have less – for the next 6 weeks or so, anyway. My manager is going on 6 weeks leave and this means that I will be working full time over that period. The money will be nice (kitchens are expensive) but weekends are going to be a lot shorter and not very relaxing as can be seen from the timetable below – starting next weekend.
Weekend 1: Tiling the hallway, clearing out some of the kitchen cupboards, trying to find ways to make the house vaguely liveable over the next two months of renovation madness.
Weekend 2: May Crown, Mother’s Day (at least I’ll be in Canberra for it), Eurovision get together if we can make it.
Weekend 3: Rehearsal camp, Harvest feast, More rehearsal camp – meanwhile Styvyn moves furniture in part of kitchen, removes old flooring and tiles said area.
Weekend 4: Rehearsal, Do the stuff that didn’t get done earlier, Move more furniture and tile another part of kitchen.
Weekend 5: Rehearsal and Concert. Demolish remaining kitchen bits, a wall etc.
Weekend 6: Finish tiling kitchen, Eat out a lot.
Weekend 7: Catch-up – i.e. some of the things above will no doubt be running behind –this is catch-up weekend.
Hopefully, after that we can just hang around and wait for them to put the new kitchen in.
All this doesn’t include all the usual social things, putting together WotW, making garb, organising a feast (at least I’ll have a whole month after the kitchen goes in to check out the recipes, though it’s cutting it a bit fine), harp practice and the thousand an one other projects that I have planned.
It will all be worth it in the long run… and we must enjoy doing it because we’re already planning the next room for renovation. However, the hall will be a lot cheaper and less disruptive to renovate.
Sunday saw us back at Bunnings getting fibre cement underlay for the tiles and a circular saw for all the things that will eventually have to be cut.
The rest of the weekend was spent on housework, pulling up flooring, laying out Australian Physics and Writing on the Wowld.
I need more time in my weeks, but I’m actually going to have less – for the next 6 weeks or so, anyway. My manager is going on 6 weeks leave and this means that I will be working full time over that period. The money will be nice (kitchens are expensive) but weekends are going to be a lot shorter and not very relaxing as can be seen from the timetable below – starting next weekend.
Weekend 1: Tiling the hallway, clearing out some of the kitchen cupboards, trying to find ways to make the house vaguely liveable over the next two months of renovation madness.
Weekend 2: May Crown, Mother’s Day (at least I’ll be in Canberra for it), Eurovision get together if we can make it.
Weekend 3: Rehearsal camp, Harvest feast, More rehearsal camp – meanwhile Styvyn moves furniture in part of kitchen, removes old flooring and tiles said area.
Weekend 4: Rehearsal, Do the stuff that didn’t get done earlier, Move more furniture and tile another part of kitchen.
Weekend 5: Rehearsal and Concert. Demolish remaining kitchen bits, a wall etc.
Weekend 6: Finish tiling kitchen, Eat out a lot.
Weekend 7: Catch-up – i.e. some of the things above will no doubt be running behind –this is catch-up weekend.
Hopefully, after that we can just hang around and wait for them to put the new kitchen in.
All this doesn’t include all the usual social things, putting together WotW, making garb, organising a feast (at least I’ll have a whole month after the kitchen goes in to check out the recipes, though it’s cutting it a bit fine), harp practice and the thousand an one other projects that I have planned.
It will all be worth it in the long run… and we must enjoy doing it because we’re already planning the next room for renovation. However, the hall will be a lot cheaper and less disruptive to renovate.
