Learning to walk before I run

Karmacat

Extreme sympathies, Ed!  Poor you, poor Mrs Ed, poor cat, come to that.  Everything will be okay, your washing machine is super duper for this stuff, just think back to your lovely brunch.  All the best.

CCW007

How do they know exactly the best way to cause maximum carnage and mayhem?

Debsnewbudget

And Breathe............
Everything will be fine 
and breathe............

themadvix

Sending sympathy here too - been there too! 

The brunch sounded lovely.

 I’m off on travels shortly, so wishing you and Mrs E (mainly her!) all the best for the birth and hoping that DD2 is all you could wish for (a baby who sleeps well and is immune to cat vomit/blood/****?!)

edinburgher

Painter has another job tomorrow and is going to be in and out until tomorrow afternoon. He is doing a lovely job, but OMW

Sitting around the house with Mrs E starting to feel stomach pains (it begins?) and I decided to try and tidy a few things before bed. Opened the garage door to put away a bag of moss killer and it won't close. It's goosed, cable has come off drum and detached from door, I couldn't do anything with it. Have messaged a couple of garage repair places, but not feeling too optimistic as it's the weekend If I get through this, I'll get through anything... Garage should have been knocked down 30 years ago, sectional concrete monstrosity with a leaky asbestos roof. Can't afford new one or known down, so will need to get it fixed for now. At least we have an EF now.

South_coast

Deep breaths, Ed.... (if the smell has cleared, that is 😳)

Karmacat

Oh my!  Breathing, yes, and just getting through each minute.  You can do it, both of you.  Positive vibes.

edinburgher

I am slowly trying to get things back to normal, I think I will need to miss my exercise class tomorrow as the house is a tip.

The painter will finish today, but is currently rushing around like a blue ***** fly between our house and 2 other houses where he is painting external walls. He has already been out twice and will need a third visit to finish. I can't imagine he will be done before dinner time. I have found a chap who can fix the garage door tomorrow, it will be £50-90 depending whether or not parts need replaced. That sounds pretty reasonable, he'll have a 50 mile round trip to get here. We have delayed the flooring fitters for a couple of weeks because they were meant to come out on Monday and it was all getting a bit much The dust is everywhere (and painter is actually quite conscientious).

We have assembled the downstairs crib, the side sleeper next to our bed and I've managed to process 3 loads of laundry (the poopy bedding + towels from yesterday). I've also taken out a big load of recycling, have managed to get the DW on and we went out for a supermarket breakfast this morning. I find it really depressing being unable to use the kitchen, it's like being a business traveller (everything is bought in too much packaging from the supermarket, in a restaurant or delivered as a takeaway). It's unhealthy, expensive and tedious, thankfully today will be the last day! On the plus side, the kitchen is looking absolutely lovely. Brown units and terracotta and white tiles and terracotta walls to white units, grey tiles and white walls is a lovely change, feels cool (both temperature wise and in terms of appearance)  

As an aside re. housey stuff, I think it's probably time to sort out the garage in the short term. We'd love to replace it with a posh garden room with electricity and possibly a wee sink (teenage DD1 could use it for hanging out with her pals in 5-6 years time). It's hard to know, however, what to do in the short term, as a posh garden room is probably £20-30,000 these days and we could use an extension way more than that, car won't last forever either. I am thinking about getting out a garage repair company to replace the asbestos roof, fit a roller door and repoint the concrete panels to make it more waterproof. It has basically been ignored as "too hard" for the last 7 years.

Suffice to say nothing moneysaving is happening, although Mrs E is due an £800 bonus at the end of the month because her firm exceeded their financial targets for the year.

killerpeaty

You have a lot of choices to make, don't you? I do not envy you that!

Harking back to your discussion on Scottish taxes, oh boy am I glad I don't do them. It's very complex and I'm not that clever!

edinburgher

@killerpeaty - one foot after the other

Mrs E is still experiencing mild contractions, they have been going on since Friday night now and I don't think she is any further on. She was booked in for a sweep tomorrow and is going to speak with a midwife in the morning to see if that's still an option.

Because she has been largely unavailable, I have had my busiest day of housework in ages. I swept the tops of our kitchen units, cleaned them, cleaned the window and door, wiped down all the worktops and woodwork, swept out cupboards and swept the floor, removed paint off cupboard handles and downlights, screwed the cupboard door handles back on, adjusted the cupboard hinges, hand washed all the dishes that had built up, took out 2-3 loads of recycling, processed 5 loads of laundry, cleaned the coffee maker, took DD to IK3a to get new hand towels, changed the batteries in the smoke alarms, put everything back in the cupboards and changed the cat's litter tray!

DD has been a wee trooper - watching TV, playing with Lego and entertaining herself with arts and crafts.

Guy came out to fix the garage door - cost £90 but he has replaced both springs, re-fitted one of the runners and it now works better than it has done since we moved in. I've paid him and the painter and I had to remind myself that the garage repair was home maintenance (not "Extension", which I'm getting guilty of dumping anything vaguely home related into, same with the hand towels). Looking forward to a quick bath and a shave tonight, perhaps tomorrow will be the day?