Sunday, June 10, 2007 Quick catch up. Went out to Auntie Ange's Hen Night last night, was a really good night but sooo hot and sweaty on the dance floor. It's been so hot and humid the past couple of days, and I really can't be bothered doing much. Missing Andy like mad too :0(
The good news though is that the bathroom is just about finished. Just waiting for the electrician to put the dimmer switch in. Yay!
So here's a few piccies of the fabby new bathroom. Can't believe it's the same room!
Monday, June 04, 2007 Are you sure it's not Friday 13th?
What a disaster of a day. 8.10am chief builder bloke arrives. They can't come today or tomorrow, they've got an emergency job on. They'll be back on Wednesday, the bathroom will be finished...promise, I made him promise, to be honest it's only a few finishing touches that need to be done, but this now means I can't do my step gran's shopping on Wednesday. I usually do it on a Monday but the car has gone in for it's MOT today and I've got the decorator and electrician here tomorrow so can't go then.
I've been trying to order her shopping off tesco.com for the last 2 hours, but their site seems to be down. The electricity in the house has gone off twice so I have to keep starting up my computer again. I've rung the electrician he says we need a new fuse box, but he can't put it in tomorrow, as he's got stuff to finish in the bathroom and he's not coming till tomorrow lunchtime! Aaargh!!!
The place is a tip, everything is constantly covered in dust, my carpets are a mess, I can't book the carpet cleaner man in until all the work is finished. All 3 bedrooms are full of stuff that doesn't belong there, and I've just had an email off hubby to say that his new laptop has gone kaput and he's working away at the mo and needs it desperately, all his work is on there.
Right enough moaning, think I'll go and sort out my kitchen cupboards. I've been working and sitting at the 'puter since 8.30am and it's time to go and do something else.
Sunday, May 20, 2007 Still no bath! So the bathroom and most of the rest of the house is still a mess. But we do now have a new toilet in which flushes...hurrah...but it is covered in black dust, as are most things in the house :0( I keep cleaning up but I'm fighting a losing battle.
Anyway, here are some pics of the bathroom before, and what it looks like at the moment. We just have to keep reminding ourselves that it will be gorgeous when it is finished, with a separate shower, whirlpool bath, and solid oak vanity sink unit. Ooo yes, and dimmer spotlights too. Still going up to the inlaws for showers at the mo though. Honestly it's worse then bloomin' camping!
Nasty avocado bath with crap shower and falling down shower curtain! This is the before!
More avocado/slate green loveliness...NOT!
Our new loo and some tiles on the wall...woohoo! Pipes in wall for shower cubicle, where the sink used to be.
Oh my Gawd! New pipes run for sink unit on the right. Pipes on the left are for the bath.
Aaaargh, what has happened to my lovely home? The blokey chaps have started work on the bathroom. I don't expect the work to end any time soon. Everything has had to be replumbed as we are moving stuff around in the bathroom, so that means taking floor boards up and running miles of copper piping. The walls have now been replastered, but we no longer have a loo that flushes, but we do have some tiles on the walls. I'm trying to look on the bright side here :0) Our lovely neighbours habve left their keys with us so that we can use their loo and shower during the day. Bless them, they are such a lovely couple.
Right it's late I'll ramble on more about this tomorrow and perhaps put some pictures up too. | 12:35 am
Thursday, May 03, 2007 B*ll$@ks!
Well this IVF has been abandoned, very poor response to the drugs...peed off and upset. We can try again but not sure yet what we want to do. Was hoping this would be the end of it all, one way or another, now it's gonna drag on for longer. So yeah, wish I'd kept it all to myself now :0( My ovaries are crap and there's no getting away from it.
So it's now out amongst friends and relations so I might as well post about it on here. We are doing IVF again. Our NHS 'go' finally came through, after spending almost £15000 on private treatment. The letter came in January and we both felt really weird about it. We'd just about accepted that we were going to be a childfree couple and that I was too old to be offered a 'free' treatment by the NHS. Anyway, it seems that our consultant really pressed our case and so we were accepted after being on the waiting list for 3 years. I really feel for those couples who have to wait for that long and can't afford to go privately in the meantime.
Eventually we decided that we didn't want to have any regrets about treatment so we agreed to go through with this one. I didn't want the menopause to start and be thinking, I wonder if that last treatment would have worked. I'm not holding out much hope, I'm a pretty poor responder to the drugs, despite the fact that I am on a high dosage again. Infact yesterday's scan showed that nothing was going on with the old ovaries, not a single follicle! But I don't finish the jabs until next Monday so there is time yet. I've been downing milk by the pint, taking my vitamins for the past 3 months and knocked the booze on the head as soon as I got back from me hollies. Infact I didn't drink very much whilst we were on holiday, and the wine I did have was watered down with a pile of ice cubes in the glass.
So I guess we have to be philosophical here, we'd both love it to work of course but in our hearts we have both accepted that perhaps this is more of a treatment that will finally give us some closure, as the Americans say. Of course there continues to be that little hopeful voice inside my head whispering, 'but this might just be the one'...9th May is Egg Collection Day and hopefully 11th May will be Embryo Transfer so in 10 days time the wondering will be over and perhaps the 2 weeks of waiting will begin again. We shall see. | 1:33 pm
Monday, April 23, 2007 Back from me hollies!
I was only away for a week in Lanzarote. A fantastically chilled out week it was too. No phones, no 'puters...bliss! My 'puter has been on the blink but seems to be working ok now, I think it may be a power source problem...errr at least that's what hubby says LOL
I've shut up Shop on Ebay for awhile, got quite a bit going on here. The bathroom is getting done in a couple of weeks and I've got lots of sorting out to do and stuff to take to the charity shop. Plus Andy and I have got a website to work on. I need to kick his butt to get a move on with it. ;0)
Our visitor from Canada is still with us, and it's been really lovely having a house guest. We do need to take him out somewhere though, and I mean further than the pub! LOL Maybe we will go to Jodrell Bank if the weather clears up a bit. I can't believe we've come back to all this rain! You had gorgeous weather whilst we were away. My garden is glad of the rain though...some of my plants have unfortunately died, so I've got my brother and Dad coming to sort the garden out in a couple of weeks. I'll get some plants in and my Dad will have a lovely time potting them up into tubs and baskets. :0)
