Live Blog of the Renovation (start reading from the bottom)
9:30 Collapse into bed exhausted and wake at 6 am to do it all again tomorrow with the next two rooms.
2:30 Recommence cleaning and moving stuff. Decide that dinner is going to be at least partly take-away.
2:15 pm Pick up Anika from work.
1:36 Having a slight breather after lunch and moving stuff. Piano moving soon to come. Maybe not quite so thankful for the hot day - can't put the air-con on in Anika's room until the furniture is in and the doors on.
11:46 Find out that Anika's room is finished so start cleaning there.
11:45 Oops, forgot the curtains still in the washing machine. Will hang curtains first and eat afterwards.
11:44 Is happy that it seems it will be finished by lunchtime. Is wondering if Lloyd and I should have an early lunch so as to be ready to hit it with the cleaning and moving once it's done? Going to investigate the fridge.
10:29 Am happy that he did not have to grind the slab of concrete after the carpet left. Just in case, am glad that the plastic drop sheet still covers the piano wedged in the hallway. Look at the wonderful new floor being put down.
10:28 See to the fourth (or is it the fifth?) load of washing of quilts, sheets, curtains, matress protectors etc. Am thankful for a very hot day to get it all dry.
9:30 Leave to take Anika to work.
8:00 I am reminded of Dr Zeuss: "This mess is so big and so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up, we cannot do it all." Apologies for a (most likely) mis-quote. 'The Cat in the Hat' is somewhere around here but it's hard to get to around the dismembered pieces of beds.
7:57 Floor man arrives
7:55 Grandma arrives
7:50 am Australian Eastern Standard: Waiting for the floor person to arrive. Getting Mike and Matt ready to go to Grandma's house for the day.
2:30 Recommence cleaning and moving stuff. Decide that dinner is going to be at least partly take-away.
2:15 pm Pick up Anika from work.
1:36 Having a slight breather after lunch and moving stuff. Piano moving soon to come. Maybe not quite so thankful for the hot day - can't put the air-con on in Anika's room until the furniture is in and the doors on.
11:46 Find out that Anika's room is finished so start cleaning there.
11:45 Oops, forgot the curtains still in the washing machine. Will hang curtains first and eat afterwards.
11:44 Is happy that it seems it will be finished by lunchtime. Is wondering if Lloyd and I should have an early lunch so as to be ready to hit it with the cleaning and moving once it's done? Going to investigate the fridge.
10:29 Am happy that he did not have to grind the slab of concrete after the carpet left. Just in case, am glad that the plastic drop sheet still covers the piano wedged in the hallway. Look at the wonderful new floor being put down.
10:28 See to the fourth (or is it the fifth?) load of washing of quilts, sheets, curtains, matress protectors etc. Am thankful for a very hot day to get it all dry.
9:30 Leave to take Anika to work.
8:00 I am reminded of Dr Zeuss: "This mess is so big and so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up, we cannot do it all." Apologies for a (most likely) mis-quote. 'The Cat in the Hat' is somewhere around here but it's hard to get to around the dismembered pieces of beds.
7:57 Floor man arrives
7:55 Grandma arrives
7:50 am Australian Eastern Standard: Waiting for the floor person to arrive. Getting Mike and Matt ready to go to Grandma's house for the day.
3 Comments:
At December 7, 2009 at 6:06 PM , Wendy said...
Just thinking the other day how we've learned to live mostly without carpet - even in freezing Japanese winters. It is much easier to keep clean! I was particularly happy with my tiles the week we had gastro!
At December 8, 2009 at 3:36 AM , Mrs Q said...
Gastro is one of the reasons I hate carpet - no more bother about cleaning carpets!! You still have carpet in the bedrooms though I think?
At December 8, 2009 at 2:47 PM , Wendy said...
Yes there's carpet there. Not in Japan, though. There we only had it in the lounge area. In Japan houses generally don't come with carpet, you have to supply your own - which makes it easy to replace it when it is old and dusty!
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