Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

PasturesNew

And .... it's tipping it down. This is "again", not "still", because earlier it was only raining.... still.

And my imagination is running riot as it looks like the exit to the field is flooded..... so I am trying to say to myself "don't be daft"

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

I wonder if lemonjelly went to see the Olympic torch today? Just watchingMudlands Today and I think it was near him today. It's coming here tomorrow. Trying to persuade my dad to come and see it (rather than just saying he can see it in TV/ in the local paper). I wouldn't have to drag my mum along (although she's somewhere much more exotic atm). I'll go anyway, but I think it would be good for him to do more things outside his normal routine IYKNWIM.

Ha!
On catching up, managed to find that you'd posted this.

I did, as you've probably read!:D

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Just cook books? Dunno.


Well, i have filled the first ikea billy book shelf of cook books from the ones we have had heaped on the floor just doing cook books, but don't have all of them on a shelf, nor, frankly out of boxes. We have books all around the walls in the whole of the first floor.....and messy piles aroun d the landing, but not just cookbooks.


I am being gifted two more billy bookshelves this week which i expect to take everything off the floor down stairs and the piles off the fllor of the landing, but not all of the pnes round edges upstairs.
then there are the boxes, which i do not plan to unpack until the builders are out in autumn.

Incidentally, the house is getting messier and messier instead of more and more organised. I am going to have to pray for sun when people visit so i can put loadsastuff in the garden:eek:

I look forward to seeing this develop...

I have 4 seperate bookshelves in my room. (I also seperately have 4 large cd racks!:eek:) Worryingly, I get bothered by how books/cd's are arranged, in a kinda OCD way.

I have a lot of books I haven't read yet - they are all on 1 bookshelf, alphabetical by author. Same large bookshelf also stores my vinyl (again alphabetical, with collections at the end, then soundtracks. Singles are stored seperately...)

On another large bookshelf are the read books that I really love, and/or am likely to refer back to, or lend to people. Books that are ok are currently stored in a wardrobe.

The only books I have seperate, are books I have on art & artists (there are only a few, but they tend to be large...), and since the interest & therefore collection has grown, my Jack the Ripper books (which are on a small bookcase, only a shelf an a half full so far...)

CD's were split into 2 types of categories years ago, however in time since, the gap is blurred, & there is more of a crossover between the 2. Compilations, DJ mixes, soundtracks, comedy/spoken word all have their own section. The other 2 (much larger) groups are kind of guitar based groups/non-guitar based groups, but is nowhere near as clear cut as that... & I have about 5000 cd's to deal with!:eek:

lemonjelly

michaels wrote: »

I tend to put the ones I don't mind people seeing I own in prominent places and try and put the more embarrassing ones on low shelves out of the way....

Does anyone else always find bookshelves bow?

Posh alert!

lemonjelly

michaels wrote: »

I quite enjoy trying to do CDs in order of purchase...another reason for not going the way of MP3s

Totally wrong! Chronological, in order of release date!:o

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

Phone call over, could have been better but could have new worse. Failed at not getting upset. Must do better

Nikkster wrote: »

Sometimes I'd rather be less human. At least I'm now a human with a big glass of wine and a nice bowl of cherries and strawberries.

I have no idea what is going on, & am making a blokey style guess which is probably way off the mark. However, firstly :grouphug:
Secondly, whilst you may have felt not great about it immediately after, I sincerely hope that you feel better as a person having addressed it, dealt with it, rather than letting it fester.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger...:)

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Totally wrong! Chronological, in order of release date!:o

When i think ip'i want to listen to something in particular, i never think, i want to listen to something released in 1996 i think. I want to listen by genre or artist, or...at the most odd, something 'seasonal' that reminds me of summer or whatever.

Whoch poses the chistmas music issue. Should the cheesy stuff fo with the classical stuff in a subsection all of its wn?

Tearing my hair out with book shelves atm. I also hate the way they look, so its not a cheerful job. It is nice to see some old friends though. Tonight i will be reading a russian supper i have decided.

PasturesNew

Moving areas on a tight budget isn't easy. A rich person would pop out their credit card, look through some hotel booking sites, pick one, book. For me it's hours and hours and hours (days) of trawling mindlessly through easyroommate, gumtree, various websites promising best prices..... and still everything's expensive.

I can't rent a flat as that takes 2-3 weeks, with references etc and I don't want to commit to one I've not even viewed.... but trying to find a house-share that suits is just as hard.

All I want is: double room, en-suite, off road parking .... in a place that doesn't resemble Beirut, with people "just like me", so not students or clearly "blokey houses" (like the ones who are 3 guys, late 20s, who like to party in their garden with the BarBQ, trampoline, hot tub....).

I'd like an owner-occupier .... rather than the HMO where the picture of the kitchen showed at LEAST 6 full fridge-freezers lined up against a wall..

And all within budget... of about £450/month tops.

And I've not even got to the point where I contact them and realise that they're "choosing" somebody and I can't just move in. I think I need to just book the cheapest B&B within 20 miles for a week and see how it goes.

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

Totally wrong! Chronological, in order of release date!:o

lostinrates wrote: »

When i think ip'i want to listen to something in particular, i never think, i want to listen to something released in 1996 i think. I want to listen by genre or artist, or...at the most odd, something 'seasonal' that reminds me of summer or whatever.

Whoch poses the chistmas music issue. Should the cheesy stuff fo with the classical stuff in a subsection all of its wn?

Tearing my hair out with book shelves atm. I also hate the way they look, so its not a cheerful job. It is nice to see some old friends though. Tonight i will be reading a russian supper i have decided.

The CDs I have that are on a shelf rather than in boxes are arranged by artist, then albums/ singles and within that chronologically. I have a personal dislike for categorising music (probably because I like lots of stuff) so don't go for that approach.

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

I have no idea what is going on, & am making a blokey style guess which is probably way off the mark. However, firstly :grouphug:
Secondly, whilst you may have felt not great about it immediately after, I sincerely hope that you feel better as a person having addressed it, dealt with it, rather than letting it fester.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger...:)

Ahh, thanks lj. Don't worry, you haven't missed any details.

The overall problem is that I spent quite a lot of time dealing with problems (many of which were not my own), and now I would rather just ignore them. Which has been made a lot easier with geographical distance. Unfortunately this does not help get things sorted out. In the grand scheme of things its not so much to worry about (esp compared to other NPs situations, and thats before you even consider they have children to care for too), but I would really like some closure and its not forthcoming!