The Ongoing Saga of Ruby Trying to Own A Home

ruby_eskimo

South_coast said:

You can spend the first day/night of the hen familiarising yourself with the place and then roll your eyes at the others from then onwards for their complete lack of knowledge and your obvious superiority 😀😀😀

That's the plan 🤣  I bluumin hate group trips; the organising, the trying to get everyone to agree on things, dealing with the people who don't want to do the one thing you've gone to the place for or drink too much on the first night and are in a foul mood the rest of the trip...can you tell I hate these things 🤣🤣🤣

South_coast

LOL,  I hope your relationship with the bride makes it worth it 🤣

LadyWithAPlan

I am sure you will have a great time, I love travelling on my own - its the adventure of it all.

ruby_eskimo

South_coast said:

LOL,  I hope your relationship with the bride makes it worth it 🤣

Yeah she's the centre of the friendship group and we all love her so should be fine...🤞

LadyWithAPlan said:

I am sure you will have a great time, I love travelling on my own - its the adventure of it all.

Turns out that I'm not the only one coming out that day now so won't get to enjoy being on my own for too long 🤣

debtfreewannabe321

LOL @South_coast that is an excellent idea 
I went camping on my own the year I turned 40, it was for a festival that I wanted to go to and couldn't talk anyone into coming with me I decided to just go on my own, I camped for 2 nights on my own and it was all good, I survived and it was even fun dare I say it - just being on my own! You'll get to rest and recuperate and acclimatize before anyone else gets there!

APWhiteSavvy

debtfreewannabe321 said:

LOL @South_coast that is an excellent idea 
I went camping on my own the year I turned 40, it was for a festival that I wanted to go to and couldn't talk anyone into coming with me I decided to just go on my own, I camped for 2 nights on my own and it was all good, I survived and it was even fun dare I say it - just being on my own! You'll get to rest and recuperate and acclimatize before anyone else gets there!

Camping or glamping?

ruby_eskimo

I'm leaving the hen do chaos till next year now, a lot more to think about before Christmas 😂

Bedroom is plastered and just waiting for coving to go up.  Moved on to boarding out the bathroom now, and the plumber is starting the fitting on Monday so progress is being made - I have the toilet in the box in the middle of our living room.  Paint arrived yesterday so we're going to try and get the lounge done over the weekend but we need to try and also find another vanity unit for the bathroom as the one DH picked out is apparently really bad quality 🙄

Money wise I might have to raid the emergency fund there's something wrong with my car.  I'm going to try and not pay the exorbitant diagnostic fee as it was a possible issue I questioned when the car was in for a service a month ago and then last night on the drive home from work, the dash lit up like a Christmas tree 🙄  Earliest it could be booked in is Tuesday and I have to be in the office on Monday so might have to suck it up and get the train to work instead next week.

ruby_eskimo

Made it into the office today and the journey by train wasn't too bad, although I did wince that the cost of getting here is double what I would usually pay to drive.  Really hoping the car is an easy fix tomorrow as think I'll be using it a bit more as there's talk of us having to be in the office at least twice a week going forward.  No idea how that's going to work as there's barely enough desks for us when it's only one team in each day.  

We managed to mist coat the downstairs on Saturday (took 7 hours) and then base coat it on Sunday so still living in absolute chaos.  Plan is to prep during the week (caulking, cleaning, taping up) and hopefully painting the ceilings properly on Friday night and then the walls on Saturday and Sunday.  Have had to order more paint as Dulux told me that I'd need less than 5 litres for 2 coats but we went way over that with one coat of white yesterday 🙄  

On the money front it's payday on Thursday and I have about £150 left that hasn't been allocated to anything.  Will move that to the house pot to go towards blinds / shutters / some kind of window covering as the ones in our bedroom came down when it was being plastered (they were awful anyway).  Would really love shutters but they are expensive for what they are.  But they look nice 😂

debtfreewannabe321

APWhiteSavvy said:

debtfreewannabe321 said:

LOL @South_coast that is an excellent idea 
I went camping on my own the year I turned 40, it was for a festival that I wanted to go to and couldn't talk anyone into coming with me I decided to just go on my own, I camped for 2 nights on my own and it was all good, I survived and it was even fun dare I say it - just being on my own! You'll get to rest and recuperate and acclimatize before anyone else gets there!

Camping or glamping?

Camping in a muddy field. Thankfully back end of August so not too cold but it wasn't very glamorous I was glad to have a bath when I got home 🤣

debtfreewannabe321

I love shutters too Ruby - although our house came with some not too bad white wooden blinds so we've left them up after a good clean (they were filthy- we think from coal being burned in the fire?)   ...in awe at all your progress!