Getting FIREd up 😀

QueenJess

I hate it too, which is ironic as I spent most of my career working with American companies. I glare at DH and correct his insistence of using movies (no, its films) or call (no, it should be ring). Mind you I also correct his grammar usage, much to his annoyance. He can’t figure out when to use less or fewer 🙄 and it’s “bored with” not “bored of”.

 “Formulas” is the normal one I find annoying at work. The phrase that has seeped into the corporate world over here is “reach out” and I visibly cringe every time. I have to grit my teeth to stop myself saying either “reach out and what?” or “I can’t reach”.

Anyway… thanks for that @South_coast. It’s good to get these things off your chest isn’t it?! 😂

LadyWithAPlan

Loving the English language chat ... there is a great bit on a US drag race programme where a contestant (Ben de La Creme) was channelling Dame Maggie Smith and speaking in a  very posh British language  ..  a fellow contestant said 'next time get some people who speak English properly ' and BenDeLaCreme fired back '"Excuse me, we originated the language!"

I always correct any wrong American spelling especially those z's such as organization (shudder)

PennysIntoPounds

'Reach out' always ends in 'and touch faith' and I just presume Depeche Mode lyrics are inexplicably part of mainstream American linguistic culture

Viking_mfw

LadyWithAPlan said:

I always correct any wrong American spelling especially those z's such as organization (shudder)

Me too... except the OED uses 'ize' spellings...

themadvix

Viking_mfw said:

LadyWithAPlan said:

I always correct any wrong American spelling especially those z's such as organization (shudder)

Me too... except the OED uses 'ize' spellings...

Don’t even get me started on that (this all touches very much on my work - and the OED is my bible for everything except its -ize/-ization constructions! So infuriating!

CCW007

"Revert back" is a pet hate along with people who make statements such as "my head literally exploded".

South_coast

Whoops, sorry for getting everyone so fired up (not quite what I meant by my diary title 🤣!) - anyone would have thought I'd mentioned politics! 

Now, who's everyone going to vote for this year???

South_coast

P.S. Please DO NOT answer that 🤣🤣🤣!

South_coast

OK, on to money stuff, and I am getting slightly overwhelmed by the amount I need to buy for the refurb. Not the cost of it necessarily (although even contemplating the exercise when the refurb fund is currently sitting at -£1420 - nearly 3 years after paying off the mortgage 🤦‍♀️! - is feeling somewhat foolhardy), more the actual volume of decisions I'm going to have to make. Because practically everything I own is ancient (because I've been waiting until I did the refurb), almost nothing is going to be coming back in and it all needs to be replaced. What's the lead time on something like a bed? Mattress? I know sofas are 10-12 weeks - ish? I feel like I should be more prepared after having had all this time to think about it 😬

I've started writing a massive list this evening of everything I'll need to buy, so I can at least start fleshing some ideas out. I'm also feeling a lot of pressure to get it "right" (again, as it's been so long in the making), ie I have seen a sofa I really like in DFS, but feel like I should at least visit other places to make sure I'm happy with it before I commit - but then I like that one! Aaargh, I'm normally a very decisive person, but I think this is just too many decisions at once! This is where living with someone would come in handy, then I could at least kowtow to their decisions and then openly say I don't like it for ever after 🤣!

greenbee

Decision fatigue is a huge problem with big projects. While you know you need to replace 'almost everything', you don't necessarily need to do it immediately. I moved in August, brought everything from my old house even though I knew it probably wouldn't all work here (and like you, much of it was past its best). I have taken ages to make decisions on individual pieces of furniture, and have been circulating things around the house and slowly making the decisions on disposal. 

Order the things you KNOW are what you want now. And with everything else, wait until you find it/it finds you. As long as you have a bed, bedding, towels, somewhere to store your clothes, something to sit on, and if you work from home, somewhere to work - then that's enough for the immediate post-refurb furnishing. 

The rest can wait until you've got a feel for the 'new' updated space.