Scuba's Second try - Sink or Swim!

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Agreed and this stuff is the absolute budget stuff,

Just like mine!

scubaangel wrote: »

whereas at least the stuff I got feels like it might survive moving again while I'm constantly worried that I'm going to break the front of the drawers when I'm opening and closing them

I'm not afraid in the slightest. Because if it breaks - I can just buy another set out of the change I get when I buy fish and chips.

I actually bought it when I had a house with a wood-burning stove. Guess where it would have ended up if it broke...

Though I have moved in the meanwhile and it is still working.

Although to be fair, it has stood up to a fair about of abuse, when I move into a "proper" house, I'll buy antiques - i.e. "real" furniture.

scubaangel wrote: »

- thankfully the wardrobe isn't in use as anything other than a storage area of clothes I need to iron - and the doors are propped against the wall rather than fixed to the body of the wardrobe.

Why?

scubaangel wrote: »

the general nicknack type stuff can be ok or can be utter rubbish,

I don't tend to buy that sort of thing. A crocodile clip on a bit of wire set into plastic just doesn't do it for me. Their kitchenware is quite good - knifes/sharpeners/drainers etc.

scubaangel wrote: »

although I loved the kids under the sea range they had a few years ago (still have the fish rugs and seahorse and starfish lights at Dad's).

Why is it there? You never settled where you are?

scubaangel wrote: »

Hmm I like my car, and I like not being pulled over on the motorway for doing daft stuff any more often than absolutely necessary....

Given that my IKEA has speed bumps in the carpark, I probably wouldn't count on making it that far... :rotfl:

scubaangel wrote: »

And on that note I need to find my credit card and head out to do a nice tasty junk food mystery shop and put some more gogo juice in to said Fiesta.

At this time out night? :eek:

scubaangel

You'd risk Ikea stuff in a stove...I'd be afraid the fumes from the burning plastic would kill me!

The stuff is still there because the ex thought it would make our place look like a child lives there....in fairness to him most people do assume my room at Dad's belongs to a 5 year old with a very advanced reading age - Finding Nemo posters, kids Ikea rugs and lights give that impression.

Yup its a 'special project' for said junk food chain, they're getting sites shopped over night the time frame for it being 0001 - 0459.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

You'd risk Ikea stuff in a stove...I'd be afraid the fumes from the burning plastic would kill me!

Nope - the drawers are mostly wood, with only a few plastic bits like the runners. Besides, it's a stove, not an open fire. All fumes go straight up the chimney while you looks at the pretty flickering flames throught the glass.

The worst thing is cleaning out the ash. Argos catalogues were the worst... :eek:

scubaangel wrote: »

The stuff is still there because the ex thought it would make our place look like a child lives there....in fairness to him most people do assume my room at Dad's belongs to a 5 year old with a very advanced reading age - Finding Nemo posters, kids Ikea rugs and lights give that impression.

You like bright colours then?

scubaangel wrote: »

Yup its a 'special project' for said junk food chain, they're getting sites shopped over night the time frame for it being 0001 - 0459.

Welll...enjoy your supper...

scubaangel

My experience of wood burning stoves usually involves the discovery that the chimney is blocked!

Not so much bright colours as aquatic stuff - the walls are turquoise, so it feels like I'm in the water sometimes (usually because I've had one or two vodkas too many and I'm confused). Living the the rental places has been hell as I hate magnolia walls, and the neutral brown carpets with the lovely cream and brown curtains....One positive of renting somewhere back home is that I'll be more willing to ask to do stuff like redecorate as I'll have family around to help put it back to the original colours when I leave again (or I can try to stick it out at my Dad's until I've saved enough to think about buying, but I reckon I'm more likely to inherit the place before that happens).

When you say enjoy....you obviously mean glance in the bag to check the items are all present and correct, eat a couple of chips then bin it. The add a large measure of vodka to the drink and settle back on the sofa with an ice lolly, right?

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

My experience of wood burning stoves usually involves the discovery that the chimney is blocked!

That's not good. Try to avoid that... :eek:

scubaangel wrote: »

Not so much bright colours as aquatic stuff - the walls are turquoise, so it feels like I'm in the water sometimes (usually because I've had one or two vodkas too many and I'm confused).

When you're in the water: You're swimming.
When you've had vodka: The room is swimming.

There you go - an easy guide...

scubaangel wrote: »

When you say enjoy....you obviously mean glance in the bag to check the items are all present and correct, eat a couple of chips then bin it. The add a large measure of vodka to the drink and settle back on the sofa with an ice lolly, right?

You should eat it. It'll be good for you. With the fast carbs and high salt and general "supersize me" effects, you'll get an education in palpatations and nausea.

Cheap at twice the price...

scubaangel

Although gaining some weight back wouldn't be such a terrible thing (and would probably mean my clothes stop resembling sacks tied with pretty belts) I'm not keen enough to do that by eating this stuff at this time of night!

As for the water/vodka thing, very possible, especially on the matress I have on the bed there - far too soft, pity I don't have space to put my current bed in my room there the change of mattress plus going from King size to 3/4 is going to be very weird!

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Although gaining some weight back wouldn't be such a terrible thing (and would probably mean my clothes stop resembling sacks tied with pretty belts)

Or you could gradually expand your wardrobe to have things that flatter your new shape?

scubaangel wrote: »

I'm not keen enough to do that by eating this stuff at this time of night!

If you were out on the razzle, you'd be queuing up for a kebab right about now...

scubaangel wrote: »

As for the water/vodka thing, very possible, especially on the matress I have on the bed there - far too soft, pity I don't have space to put my current bed in my room there the change of mattress plus going from King size to 3/4 is going to be very weird!

No more starfish impressions in bed for you... :rotfl:

scubaangel

Which is my plan although flattering isn't a consideration, just fitting will do for me - I'm a source of great disappointment to my mother and sister who both frequently try to make me buy 'pretty accessories' to go with my jeans and t-shirt collection!

About now? Good lord man what sort of bars do you drink at? It'd be at least another couple of hours before I would be headed for the kebab wagon.

Or I'll just fall out alot when I do try to do the starfish impressions.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Which is my plan although flattering isn't a consideration, just fitting will do for me

Noooo...you get fitting and flattering and comfortable and then deploy appropriately as the situation warrants.

scubaangel wrote: »

- I'm a source of great disappointment to my mother and sister who both frequently try to make me buy 'pretty accessories' to go with my jeans and t-shirt collection!

If you have jeans and t-shirts for utility, then "pretty accessories" tend not to go. I'm sure you must have stuff for when you glam up a little.

scubaangel wrote: »

About now? Good lord man what sort of bars do you drink at? It'd be at least another couple of hours before I would be headed for the kebab wagon.

Hit the kebab wagon between the pub and nightclub. Going for a kebab during the "taxi-rank invasion" is not a good way of getting home while it's still "am".

scubaangel wrote: »

Or I'll just fall out alot when I do try to do the starfish impressions.

Bungee cords. They'll save you.

scubaangel

Sorry I'm utterly confused - dressed up means wearing high heels and a v-neck t-shirt with my jeans rather than a round neck one.

The kebab wagon is out of the way of the taxi rank, but is right next to the train line that runs all night with a stop near enough staggering distance to my current house. I seem to get home quicker than the guys who live on camp!

Or strangle me....

Tonights evening meal was a MS, whilst out I made full use of Quidco's check in feature and now only have two more to collect this month.

I also popped in to Lidl and bought some veggies to roast tomorrow with the gammon joint I'm currently defrosting and plan to slow cook, not sure if I'm going to cooking with cola or apple juice, most likely cola as I would need to go and buy juice, which should mean I only need to roast the veggies and use up the last of the open packet of instant mash.

Printed the list of DVD's I want rid of last night and gave copies to two of the girls at work this afternoon, with any luck they'll want some of them so I can reduce the current 1 large and 6 small boxes to something more managable.

Currently working on the list of books, I've copied the list of books I have on greenmetropolis and amazon in to a word file and am about to brave the bookcase in the living room, although I've run out of boxes to put the ones I want to get rid of in to so might use that as an excuse not to bother this evening in favour of staying snuggled on the sofa with the lappy and a DVD.