Ding! Ding! All change, please... (now replaced with new diary on MFW)

Baileys_Babe

I'm the planner in our relationship and OH is a whatever comes a long type of guy.  Sometimes he does mention that it was easier this time because we had been organised in advance of an event/trip/visitors but doesn't see it could be easier more of the time if we did a bit more planning.

beanielou

More positive vibes your way. 

EssexHebridean

dreaming said:

EssexHebridean said:

I have just sent MrEH over a list of the various jobs that we must get done on Monday - several involve the possibility of giant spiders, and others are just a bit tedious so I don't have any intention of doing them on my own...! having said that, I have SO many lists in various draft emails actually finding anything is beginning to get a bit challenging! 

Ah, what you need is a "list of lists" - which is something I actually caught myself doing a few years ago when I had a lot going on. I'm better now but my daughter is known to ask if it's going on the spreadsheet when I buy lunch for us (yes, it does!). I have a quite-large spider in my living room which seems to run from one side of the room to the other, then back again each night. Although I keep my feet off the floor when I see it, I don't really mind it doing it's evening constitutional. When my daughter moved into one rented place the agent doing the initial hand over actually wrote on the contract that there were "lots of dead spiders" in one of the kitchen drawers. When daughter moved out she did wonder if she should replace them as you are supposed to leave the property in the same condition. Hope everything falls into place for you.

The bit I've bolded made me positively HOWL with laughter!! Brilliant!! 

Makingabobor2

Love that idea of a "list of lists", I do that all the time.  

I am very much a planner and DH is most definitely not, maybe its a man thing with just not planning. 

Humdinger1

Meta-lists, eh? It makes sense though love Humdinger xx 

Seasidegal58

I say this with love, but right now, I really can't cope with any more "other people's moving horror stories".   Please believe me if I say that if there is any possibility, even if it's entirely unprecedented, of anything that could occur between now and us finally getting into the new house (or indeed NOT getting in to the new house!) I will already have thought about it and indeed probably be hyper-focusing on it at this very moment!  

I won't inflict you with my flat lease extension horror story then and save it for another time!🤣🤣🤣

Seriously though I'm so sorry it's turned out to be so stressful for you and Mr EH and I'm projecting very positive vibes to you. Hope they work and boo to Giant Spiders!🕷️ 😀👍

redofromstart

Everything crossed for an imminent exchange. Cheering you on from the sidelines.

will you get new cats...?

starnac

EssexHebridean said:

starnac said:

I'm a planner too and hate not being able to plan due to uncertainty for whatever reason. Once I have a plan in place I feel better and some of the stress eases. I like a plan!

I struggle to get this one across to MrEH as he doesn't like to plan anything until it's all certain - until then I tend to get a lot of "Oh, we'll just have to wait and see what happens, won't we..." whereas I like to plan based on what I expect to happen, and then if that plan needs revising, fine, I can cope with that perfectly well!

This is exactly Mr Starnac too!!!

Humdinger1

Everything crossed for today @EssexHebridean! Standing by for bubbly and yet more packing love Humdinger xx 

EssexHebridean

Still not exchanged. Let’s just say that our buyers solicitor is a fitwuck of the highest order…I’m not saying more because a) I’m raging and nothing ai say right now will be civil and b) anything I say is highly likely to earn me a forum ban for what might be called “industrial language” 

- more boxes packed (I’m trying to think hopeful thoughts)
- got my steps in walking to the town centre this morning. Coins paid in, £2 coins also paid in. £29 to the holiday account and £40 to my own savings. (Those £2 coins have been lingering though - I just don’t amass them any more sadly)
- wandered into Wilco to see if there were bargains - there weren’t so left again with my purse firmly closed.
- Shopping (Lil’s) done this morning - £18.35 but some odds and ends still to get elsewhere.
- made the planned banana and choc chip muffins this evening. Although hit a few challenges - first up I realised that we’d already packed the muffin tin, so decided fine, I’d just pack the paper muffin cases into a roasting tin..except we’ve packed the paper cases too! Improvised with splitting the mixture between two Pyrex pie plates which actually worked fine, and result is delicious! 

- another spend booking a hotel room for a friend’s 40th birthday later in the year - she is literally having a p155 up in a brewery (and a brilliant brewery, too!)  so we’re well up for that! We will need to take the cost for that from our personal spends as the money in the joint fun account needs to be reserved to pay the beer festival accommodation bill when our lovely chief finance lady confirms the amount.
- decluttered the end of a bottle of gin and the end of a bottle of whisky this evening - more stuff to not have to pack !