Bloody Knackered

Karl and I have spent all weekend cleaning and moving furniture. Perhaps I’m just being stereotypical/sexist but it’s obvious the flat hadn’t seen a woman’s touch in at least a year. We blasted the shower ‘cubicle’ thing with the steam cleaner and old hair shot out the bottom. Now that was just ‘eww’, and I’ve got my fingers crossed it was anything but pubic hair… thank God for heavy duty bathroom cleaners, a really tough sponge and frickin’ hot steam.

The whole place looks quite a bit bigger without the furniture (it was all taken except the room divider thingymajig) but it’s echoing at the moment. Got to get a small sofa or something, because sitting on hard wooden chairs is not good. At least we have something to sit on today though, heh.

We had to wrestle with the fridge to get it under the worksurface in the kitchen but ended up moving it to the other side where there’s more space (the floor is not straight.. such is the beauty of a building from the 1800s — it’s a gorgeous building though). This is probably a really boring detail that no one cares about but I feel the need to share with anyone who will listen anyway.

Right, off to finish moving the bed, half of the contents of the kitchen cupboards, clothes, toothpaste and other bathroom stuff, etc. It’s 8pm and we’ve not eaten yet. Argh!

(..and an ‘aside’ for those slightly lacking in the brain department: no, I’m not pregnant. I have no baby. Nil, nada, none. )

24 comments so far

  1. Carina said:
    On 15 Oct at 7:18 pm

    I like the room divider thing :P. Hair? Ew.

  2. Amelie said:
    On 15 Oct at 7:46 pm

    Reminds me of when I moved here :D I’m interested in hearing the details, however mundane. I like making a house a home… Hee!

  3. Jenny said:
    On 15 Oct at 8:19 pm

    Ew @ the hair. Post more photos! :P PS. Ikea! x]

  4. Kelly said:
    On 15 Oct at 8:54 pm

    More photos! The idea of old hair shooting up repulses me… though I’m sure not as much as it did you! Glad everything is going well with the move. :)

  5. Sara said:
    On 15 Oct at 9:26 pm

    Ew, the hair thing totally made me feel sick. I think it would be so fun to move into a new apartment… All the decorating possibilities, and setting everything up to be all perfect… By the way, I love the site layout!

  6. Xeronia said:
    On 15 Oct at 10:33 pm

    That’s really tiring. Reminds me when my family first moved to where we live now.

  7. Xeronia said:
    On 15 Oct at 10:34 pm

    That’s really tiring. Reminds me when my family first moved to where we live now.

  8. Elea said:
    On 16 Oct at 12:49 am

    Best way to prevent people from falling for the ‘I’m pregnant’ joke: don’t throw it out there. ;)

  9. Shannon said:
    On 16 Oct at 1:50 am

    Ah. You can’t blame the first-time visitors for really believing you’re pregnant. It’s more of an inside one. Wow. Old hair shooting out. Now that’s disgusting.

  10. Hev said:
    On 16 Oct at 1:55 am

    Congrats on the new flat. Have fun decorating it.

  11. Hillarie said:
    On 16 Oct at 2:07 am

    Glad you’re getting settled in…and I know it’s an unrelated question, but is cutenews full of security bugs? I’ve been trying to integrate wordpress into one of my sites and everybody says that cutenews is so much safer, but it reminds me of greymatter, so…I’m not sure if I can trust it…

  12. Dave said:
    On 16 Oct at 3:22 am

    I was pregnant once… naahhh only joking ;) See what I did there? Oh no, not hair. I’m afraid of hair. Especially wet hair. Eugh,oh god I think I’m gonna throw up!

  13. Jem said:
    On 16 Oct at 7:52 am

    @Shannon: I have no problem with people really believing I’m pregnant (all part of the fun), it’s the idiots who think they can tell me how to live my life (while hiding behind a fake email address) BECAUSE they think I’m pregnant that make it hilariously stupid (and demonstrates their lack of a back-bone).

  14. Gemma said:
    On 16 Oct at 8:53 am

    Hope you had a restful night! Moving house is so exhausting – but arranging your stuff in the new place is the fun part :)

  15. Nan said:
    On 16 Oct at 10:48 am

    Just wanted to congratulate you on you and Karl’s new apartment. I think the room divider is pretty neat. I saw in your previous post how it seperated the kitchen from the livingroom. I hope you guys will have fun moving in, decorating and setting up the home altar (computers e.g)

  16. Munin said:
    On 16 Oct at 11:46 am

    (agrees with everyone and demands photos!) That is.. Disgusting. If hair shot out like the way it sounds, I’d be so freaked out. x_x

  17. Jordan said:
    On 16 Oct at 6:09 pm

    The bathroom sounds like how mine was.. after we had moved into it. It was my boyfriend, our roommate Dave, and myself. The shower got pretty disgusting; Especially with two hair guys. *gags* All I know is that I used to dump Draino into the tub in hopes that the hair would magically disintergrate without my having to scoop *guh* it out. Congrats on the new place though; Con with everyone else. I demand photos when you’ve got it all decked out with your stuff!

  18. Grant Mc said:
    On 16 Oct at 6:23 pm

    gad the hair thing, i hope for your sake (and the imaginary uterus) that nothing to bad comes out nay plug holes! Good Luck Jem, Grant Mc.

  19. Vera said:
    On 16 Oct at 8:29 pm

    Getting your own place, and working to make it cosy always sounds like so much fun. I can’t wait till it’s my turn… though I dread to think of the price :P The bathroom thing… I don’t think it’s about a woman’s touch, more like a reasonably clean touch. YUCK! Tee-hee, I went to read your comments on account of your PS and can’t believe that someone actually thought you were pregnant, ESPECIALLY since you DO say you;re joking… *sighs*

  20. Grace said:
    On 17 Oct at 3:51 am

    Okay… That’s gross. I would have screamed. On your about page, below your navigation, it says this. “You’re currently browsing the Personal section. Use the navigation below to browse my subpages.” Maybe you can remove it already. :)

  21. Shari said:
    On 17 Oct at 4:02 am

    Oh, that hair must’ve been a little too much on the eyes. A woman’s touch, you say, but I can’t say the same for myself. I agree with Vera up there. :) Good luck with moving stuffs around. A pretty tiring “job,” but fun nevertheless.

  22. Mumblies said:
    On 17 Oct at 6:22 am

    You forgot to say how nice the carpet came up too when Karl steam cleaned it Jem, shame on you. Give the bloke credit for grovelling around on his hands and knees he worked so hard too :o) More pics is a must.

  23. Bubs said:
    On 17 Oct at 2:41 pm

    listening to you talk about moving makes my body ache! i don’t want to do that again for a very long time T_T

  24. Sonja And Dad said:
    On 19 Oct at 9:30 am

    hello jem and karl , we wish you all the best of luck with your flat and your work . You wil get there in the end hon and when all the work is done you will be realy proud of it too :) . Lots of love from your dad , Sonja, Lellie and the little hellbat xxx