My home is a mess

laurel7172

I'm there.:eek:

Garden-trees out, fence replaced, path laid, new washing line put in, trees replaced, borders edged with leftover bricks....

It has taken six months, but it's done.

So shattered that I've given up on h**sework this week. But now the bones of outside are done, I have two weeks off and there is hope.

Just not today. I have a tutoring client, then I'm going to bed for a joint end-of-term/end-of-months-of-slog-in-the-garden collapse.

I may not get up until Monday

YORKSHIRELASS

Wahey Laurel, you must be so so chuffed. Barbeque round at yours then next weekend?

And Adele thats just gross. My son gets nosebleeds and I sometimes find blood soaked tissues in his pockets which is bad enough!

jpscloud

laurel7172 wrote: »

I may not get up until Monday

Well done Laurel, enjoy your hard-earned rest!

Hope everyone is well - I'm knackered, have just finished a second patchwork project (a sort of bolster pillow for my bed) and it's very rough around the edges, but looks quite nice. It was another steep learning curve, and made from scraps so I don't feel too guilty about not undoing the messy mistakey bits

Adela31

woo woo laurel

Ooh, whimperings from next door (as in the boys bedroom) twin two is FULL of snotty cold, and twin 1 has moved into my bed because of the smell of the vicks and olbas oil!

sonastin

:T Laurel - I'm jealous. Garden is still a muddy hole with a washing line stuck in it and probably will be for a wee while yet.

Very nearly ready to move into new kitchen though. So nearly ready that contents of old kitchen had to be decanted onto work surfaces so have absolutely no kitchen whatsoever now!

I know I should be really grateful to OH for building me such a stunningly beautiful kitchen but instead I'm ready to swing for him today. Because it was so nearly finished, he decided that it should really be finished today. I wanted a veto on the lino because its something we don't always see eye-to-eye on. So he took me to see the one he wanted to buy and it was not awful so I agreed. But they didn't have enough in stock. So OH's toy's came out of the pram. Suddenly we HAD to buy lino today and it didn't seem to matter whether it was good enough or not as long as it would do. I have to say that what we've ended up with looks OK and cost less than the stuff we originally budgeted for but it is !!!!!! quality in comparison. I feel like the boat has been lost for a ha'peth of tar - just hope I get used to it and forget the tantrum that led to buying it because otherwise it will spoil my lovely new kitchen and be £150 down the pan.

And coupled with that it was my grandma's 90th birthday today. Credit to OH, he did come to the party which is nowhere near his sort of thing but boy did he make sure I knew it wasn't his sort of thing and made sure that I couldn't relax and enjoy myself while I was there. All because it stopped him meeting this arbitrary deadline he'd set himself on getting the kitchen done today.

And to top it all off, he's made some real passive agressive remarks on the way home about the state of the house we live in right now. I wouldn't mind if it was deserved but most of the carp lying around is his and he's previously objected to me moving his stuff. I've gotten more and more precise about putting my stuff away and making sure that I'm not leaving stuff out and yet the house never gets any tidier and OH still feels like he can blame me because historically I have always been the messy one.

Ggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Sorry. Rant over now. Just needed to get that off my chest because otherwise I'd go off at OH full bore and that wouldn't be a productive argument. I just hope that once we're not living in a building site the messy/tidy equilibrium is re-balanced (i.e. I make the mess and he does the tidying :rotfl:)

Emm-in-a-pickle

Morning Messies! Just had a quick read, will post properly later. Off to work in a min, taking more of that cake in today as yesterdays went down very well! Even the on-call Dr had some (he was starving & had missed getting any lunch, Bless`im!)
Welcome Marywooyeah!
Not all OH`s are in the dog-house today - I`ve been told to work up a thirst this am so we can go down the pub this afternoon!
Have a nice Sunday all!
Drags self away from computer to pack the rest of the unwanted cake...

footymadgal

Only managed to do washing up yesterday as out and about most of the day. So far this morning I've done a WM load and handwashed some tights. The plan for the rest of the day is to change bed clothes and to do some painting of garden fence panels. We started this last Sunday afternoon as one of our neighbours had had some new panels installed and so we needed to paint our side. We finished that but we need to give a lick of paint to the remaining old panels and we do have a lot of fencing in our garden. It probably won't all get done today but at least it will reduce the amount of work that will be needed over Easter. The sun is shining and so I am feeling keen to get out there!

I returned home from work on Friday to the smell of furniture polish. The Virgin TV man had had to come round to look at our TV reception as OH wasn't happy with quality. I'd forgotten all about this but luckily OH hadn't and he'd moved the TV and stand away from the wall and vacuumed the area and wiped down the skirting board as it was (cough) rather dusty. He'd also polished the stand that the TV sits on, so that was a nice surprise! Easily pleased, eh!

Buffythedebtslayer

I will be leaving the thread as I now have a totally clean organised house, all surfaces are dusted, carpets hoovered, Fridge clean with a meal plan and no wasted food.............And the Garden! well, the National Trust are in talks to use it as a tourist attraction as it is so gorgeous.......................






























April Fool!!!

I have two puppies they are adorable but I have newspaper every where and no clean clothes! The kitchen looks like a bomb's hit it and I have to make Birthday Tea for my Mum plus ALL the animals need cleaning out.

oh and I have to bake a birthday cake! I am BRICKING IT!

tattycath

House is still a mess but yesterday we cleared the garden.
Took some metal to scrap yard and got 20quid for it. Took some other broken fencing and garden rubbish to tip.
So at least the garden looks half decent even though there is still a mountain to climb getting the house sorted.

bearcub

Afternoon messies, and welcome to marywoo, and anyone else who may be new on here, and I've not noticed.

Good joke, Buffy! How are the pups?

Well done, Laurel for all that hard work in the garden. I hope you get a good amount of decent weather this year, so you can just sit back and enjoy it all now.

Emms, how much more cake to go?

Adela, your OH would drive me nuts. Don't know how you cope. You must have a seriously perforated tongue by now, or be a total :A

Yorkshirelass, it must have been awful having to clear all that stuff out of the shed. Maybe the new one will be like a tardis, and everything will fit in with space to spare!

Haven't been in for days, although I can't actually recall why. Just other small commitments getting in the way, I suppose. As for de-messying, hmm. Things aren't too bad, I suppose, but as soon as I vacuum, sawdust/hay/straw gets trodden indoors, and I've better things to do with my time, so there! Tbh, OH isn't really one for clutter, in that he doesn't accumulate stuff, but he's not too good at actually putting things away. Still, he does do the cooking......