Way too much stuff!

I am for ever fighting with overload of stuff at home. Too many clothes, too many toys, too many kitchen utensils and way too much storage solutions. Our stuff is just overwhelming me. I am a little bit of minimalist at heart so it is strange that our house is full! I am not hoarder, but it just seems that they are too many items everywhere (and the little one is not helping).

 

E-bay and why I love it

I spent a lot of time on E-bay. Buying or selling I just love it. Where else will somebody pay you to take your "junk" away? :-)
We sold our 3 seater futon and it was picked up on Monday evening. The lovely buyer actually fit it in the VW golf! I would not believe it.
I see E-bay as big treasure box with a new stuff every minute!
With selling some high cost furniture there now maybe even the cost of the baby stuff will not be that bad.

There are some basic & safety rules when selling which is a good idea to follow.

It doesn't match!

Yep, that was when I was proudly showing our new nursery furniture!
Chair is a light wood, cot is white and our new/ second hand chest of drawers is a dark oak. Put it together with our solid Oak furniture in the rest of the house and it is not colour coordinated!

Cats & pregnancy

It is really funny, but I am pretty sure that our cats have known that I am pregnant even before it showed on the "stick". :-) They both got more cuddly with me and as I realised they never leave me on my own at home. At least one is always in the room with me. Especially in the morning when I am getting dressed & putting makeup on. Sometimes even Meowgi (the boy) follows me to to bathroom at night and then back to the bedroom. :-)))

Mewogi's usual position.

Our new mortgage deal

We own our little house in Surrey for 2 years now. That means that our first mortgage deal is running out. I had a look at new deals with our bank to switch to and I was interested in their 4 years fix. We think that rates will go up so it makes sense to fix it for longer. I have popped into our local Halifax and spoke with manager. It looked like we were just above 60% Loan to Value (LTV). To get the best rate (which is below 60% LTV) I have paid £6000 into our mortgage (from our savings).

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Visit of my workoholic family

What happens when you get a visit from your workaholic family? DIY and some more! Yep, that is what happened on the first day of my parents & both my brothers holiday in my house.
I was showing them around and last was the attic (here in England very important room) as it is the only storage what we have. My dad and my middle brother (I am the youngest one) had one look at its unfinished stage and started straight away on it! Asking me where is our jigsaw cutter (It needed some translating as I didn't know how it is called in English) and then sending me to Screw fix to buy one!
In all chaos I took some pictures. Please be warned they were working and not posing. :-)))

My dad doing the finishing of the loft hatch.

New page on the blog

I have added a new page named: Pregnancy & baby. There will be the most important "staff" regarding our first.
So far I have been so lucky and didn't have the usual pregnancy symptoms. No running to bathroom first thing in the morning or staying in the bed for me! :-)
I have been only a little bit tired so going to GYM had to go and also I have rested more so no blog for a while. Now I am 14 weeks and I am thinking about going back to GYM. I can feel that my body isn't as strong as used to be.

Also we are thinking about slowly changing our second bedroom to more of baby room. We will sell our futon. It served us very well. Also getting rid of small TV and TV stand to make a room for some dresser for baby staff. We will keep 2 wardrobes (as there is my husbands clothes) and also the computer desk.
We will be buying cot/bed on e-bay and just getting new mattress. I am at the moment looking at dressers. I want just some long and made of solid wood. I will probably sand it down and paint it white. I am quite looking forward to some more DIY!

Very exciting news for Home in Surrey!

We have very exciting news here. Home in Surrey is prego!

That is why I didn't write anything for a month. To be honest I was so tired that even switching on my PC was too much!
We still finished all running DIY and I still did my second job but something has to give and my GYM and my blog unfortunately were put on hold.

We had a scan on 04/09/14 and this is our 12 week old! So far everything is good.

Now they are doing some blood test for genetics. We just hope that our baby is healthy.

Bad and unlucky day

Yesterday I had one of the "bad" days. You know the days when your luck just got lost and everything just go wrong. You will not get any warning. I got up as usually, had a shower and went to work. That is when it started. When unlocking my car door I have noticed a big scratch on my door! :-((( Another one?

I have already a number of them on my car. None of them my mistake! I would appreciate if other people had a little bit of consideration and stopped damaging my little runner. Somebody just opened their car door into mine.

Gluten free diet

My stomach upset sickness is finally over! I have been so unwell that I let go of everything not essential. It means that house looks like a bomb exploded, no GYM for like ever and only half job done at the work. Sorry but my almost daily Blog writing has to be put on stop too I really didn't have energy for anything than just trying to survive!

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And why was it? I have been stupid! I have this gluten / wheat intolerance.

Bulling? Really?

I had very, very bad night yesterday in my second job. It looked like all went just from bad to worse. I don't usually get involved in "job" politics but unfortunately I have been on receiving end.

One of the "favourite" employees was trying to "push" me into leaving. It happened without any warning and left me really upset. I went from very surprised, to very upset to today very angry.

Very angry at myself that I didn't see it coming. Very angry at myself that I didn't protect myself from that happening! I will have to take action. I don't want be a victim of bulling. I am old enough to be able to deal with it.
Even with saying all of that It still leave me in very unhealthy state of mind. :-(

Oh, the builders!

This week we are in the process of changing our 20 years old boiler.

Hura! (the Czech spelling). It doesn't go very smooth so far.
When they were the previous owners building the extension and adding utility room + bathroom, they did not build any hatch - access into the extension attic. It means that we had to first get that installed. Easy you say. We called the friends builders to do it.

Work and work to save

This week I got 4 shifts in my second job! It means that in 5 days I will be working about 60 hours. I don't usually do so many hours but if I have this opportunity I will do it. Only regret is that I don't go to the GYM, because to be honest I am totally exhausted after 13 hours of work.

Willow screening update 2

We got delivery of more screening yesterday! I know not very exciting but the fun is I didn't order it. That even is not the whole story.
Firstly I have ordered 2 rolls of 2m high and 4m long willow screening. Next day I got delivery but the rolls were only 1.5m high. So I have contacted the seller. I have bought it on Amazon (and used voucher from my Amazon credit card) so I taught that all process will be very safe. Seller (Primrose shop) apologised and gave me the small rolls free! So I have been very happy when the mine 2m rolls were delivered on Monday. Yep, I got 4 roll now. 2 days later (on Wednesday) I got another 2 rolls of 2m high rolls. So now I have 6 rolls!
Not sure what is happening but I think that our neighbour is getting a little bit worried what for goodness sake we are going to do to our tiny garden. :-)

Good morning giant spider

Our cats woke us up at 4:30 in the morning with funny noise. They were trying to climb the bedroom wall! The wall behind our bed! Really strange. So I got up put my glasses on ( I am really blind without them or contact lenses) and had a shock. This big, really big... giant spider was literary siting next to our headboard!

Beautiful weekend

We have been again very busy this weekend. Our friends Matt & Dee had a wedding. It was such a beautiful day. Bride was pretty, dress was amazing, groom was nervous and food was delicious. Their cake was very funny.

Busy makes my happy

I like to be busy. Go to the GYM then straight to work then write something for my blog on my lunch break. After work straight to second work and when not having any shift that day go home and cook some nice dinner, feed the cats & play with them, hover & clean the house then maybe write something for the blog again or do some little DIY.

At the weekend it is food shopping, big cleaning, washing, ironing, gardening and of course baking.

Yep, I like to be busy. It is really funny that more busy I am more happy and also more energy I have.

Nothing is perfect

Yes, nothing is perfect and if you are really hard trying to make it than you are just stressing yourself out.
For example my car. It is very, very far from perfect but I really like it. It got scratched on the door (at the car park) and I never discovered who did it.

Birthday present/ Ramsay London

I had a birthday on Thursday and my lovely husband took me to 3 Michelin star restaurant Ramsay in London!
We actually got this lunch as our wedding present last year but still didn't have a time to go there.
We don't go out very often so this was real treat to us.
Our table was that in left bottom corner and of course restaurant was full. I even got a little birthday cake and candle! Manager than sing me happy birthday. So, so, nice!

I had a look in the kitchen too and there was 15 members of staff and head chef was a lady!
One of the waiters could also speak my language! What more can a girl wish to have for birthday!

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So thank you very much my husband Rob and also Dee and Matt for this present!

My fitness pal

I go to the GYM. Yes, I am trying be really healthy and fit. I can actually feel my age and some exercise is helping to slow it down. It is really weird but I feel the most energy after good session and good run in the GYM. :-)

How I said before I am very lucky that my company has corporate membership. I salute all people (Especially in UK) who run outside. Weather in UK is not very good for it. It is always raining or the wind is so strong that any running is real effort.

I have this App on my phone where you can put what you had for food and what sort of exercise you did that day and it will tell you if you are eating too much or too less.

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