Daffy's 'a nice cup of tea cheers you up' diary

Cheery_Daff

Oh dear cherisong, hope some of the emails can be deleted with no action! I usually go through and delete all the irrelevant ones first, then plough back through the ones that actually need me to do something.

Don't go getting carried away with the idea of my productiveness though, it's been an afternoon of tears and tantrums here - quite literally! :rotfl: Headaches and grumpiness all round. Things thrown around the kitchen (not by me!), stompings off and all round tired/hormonal stroppiness And to top it all off, Mr Daffs doesn't want me to paint the wall, he wants me to glue the paper back on :mad: :rotfl:

You've got to laugh - this is the paper that has been STAPLED, yes, STAPLED to the wall for at least a year, and it's apparently going to look too scruffy if I just paint the wall instead <sigh>

So now, the job looks more like - scrape cr*p off wall (old paper, plaster, polystyrene etc), peel plaster/polystyrene and assorted other cr*p off paper (good job I didn't throw it in the bin - I half suspected such a fiasco would occur!), THEN glue the paper (or wall), stick the paper on, no doubt peel it all back off again because it hasn't stuck, paint the original plastered over bit, stick the curtain rails back up, blah blah BLAH :rotfl: Like I said, nothing is ever simple in this house!

Should have just left the bl**dy paper stapled to the bl**dy wall in the first place! <yawn>

Apparently there's a difference between something being scruffy because it's not finished and you're going to do it properly later (eg paper stapled to wall, plaster not painted), and something just being scruffy (painted wall). I haven't even got the energy to argue...

Anyway... let's leave all that grumpity nonsense behind and be cheery for a minute... (and let's be cheery and PURPLE, just because we can). On the plus side today:

- I got up early and did lots of PhD (still going to do a little more this evening)
- I went to the charity shop and found a fabulous creamy duvet cover that will do perfectly as curtain linings for the pair that are off the wall :j :j For £2!! There'll be plenty left for other sewing projects, but not enough to line the other set of curtains, but since I'm not bothered about them being EXACTLY the same (and since I'm not taking the other ones off until this wall is all painted and finished), I'll deal with that later
- the wall will all be finished by the end of the weekend, even if it *is* a pain in the ar*e
- I've had a nice cup of tea bought for me in a cafe by a friend
- we've both apologised and are all cheery again (for now at least, more tears before bed I suspect!)
- Mr Daffs has gone to bed for a bit (good because he'll wake up less tired), and I'm sitting with a hot chocolate mooching through diaries
- I've submitted an application for an all-expenses-paid course in Southampton at the beginning of November, so I'm helping the universe get me on the course by imagining being there and really enjoying it :T
- I have nowhere to be this evening, and Mate and Mr Daffs are both free, so hopefully they can entertain each other while I do a bit of PhD and then make curtain linings. I'm going to do my scraping 15 mins at a time over the next couple of days :T

There, feel all a bit calmer now :rotfl: Gosh, what a load of rambling old nonsense!! :rotfl:

MrsMoo2U

OH DEAR (joining you in purple). What are men like? My OH sometimes goes off on a rant out of nowhere if I do something that I think is improving things (bearing in mind that he has not even put a paintbrush to the house for 6 years) as he is a perfectionist. He wont start a job unless it is going to be done perfectly and then it overwhelms him so he just doesnt get it done. I have taken to just doing things whilst he is not here and he usually likes it if he sees the finished result rather than discussing the proposed result.

Hope that you have a nice jolly evening sewing. I am currently making tibetan roast so I am waiting for the next stage whilst having a nice cup of earl grey!

Cheery_Daff

Oh dear Cherisong, I'm afraid I'm laughing at what you said about your OH, that's exactly what it's like here! :rotfl: Garden ignored for 20 years, I start doing things, and all of a sudden there's lots of helpful suggestions Well, that's probably a *slight* exaggeration, but you get the picture

What's a tibetan roast?? Sounds intriguing!

I'm taking a positive attitude to this decorating, have got my MP3 player in reading me cheery stories, have already scraped the wall clean, and one piece of the wallpaper, wasn't difficult at all! Just got to do the other bit of wallpaper, then glue them on, then should be able to paint tomorrow (fingers crossed!!)

Thanks for helping me laugh about it all

missymoo81

hey daffy, well done on ploughing on through the wall touching up, and good on you for still be cheery and being able to smile. MEN!!! Hey?! And they say women are hormonal!

I am so inspired by your diary and the way you are able to live on so little but have so much, and how you make things out of nothing, really love your make do and mend attitude too. I'm aspiring to be like you.... mind you I already have the tea drinking down to a tee

Keep smiling lovely

Missy

MrsMoo2U

Glad I helped you to smile because by Dawkins I try my hardest to smile when in that situation. It is nice to have a diary to offload to isnt it? Yep the suggestions are the same here re the garden. Not touched for 6 years, I start on it and suddenly he is Diarmud Gavin (I wish - only joking he is cuter than he of curly hair and irish brogue)

Tibetan roast is a vegetarian bake loaf type thing. I have recipe elsewhere if you catch my drift. Not saying the B word because the shabby chic thread had a reminder earlier. Oops

Karmacat

The good long term effects ... isn't that the truth that they're hard to explain? The stereotype is "billy no mates" posting on a forum - and the very opposite can be true.

Cheery, you poor thing - its true, with DIY, especially somebody else's DIY, it can just get more and more complicated. Good luck with it.

Happytogetdebtfree

Evening dafs and happy friday im to bed early back to work tomorrow im tired x

Cheery_Daff

Ah you lovely lot!

Missy, thank you Lovely to be thought of as an inspiration (although please don't be inspired by my stroppy behaviour this afternoon! :rotfl:) I'm sat here smiling at your comment though, thank you :j

Ooh cherisong, must investigate your recipe! Are we not allowed to mention the B word?? Goodness!

Night Happy :T

Feeling much better about the DIY now thanks KC :T Paper and wall all scraped now, just need to stick the paper back up - will save that for when it's light tomorrow.

Feeling altogether calmer here now - tea eaten, washing up done, kitchen tidy, half a curtain lining sewn, Mr Daffs in the bath, mate in the attic, friend on the way round :T

missymoo81

Sounds like a good night daffy, you deserve some chill out girly time with your mate, enjoy x

Cheery_Daff

Thanks Missy, although 'mate' was actually ex-ex-boyfriend, so not very girly!! :rotfl: Cheery though :T