My New Home and Stuff
Tada! I’m not dead :D Indeed not, I’m afraid. Simply distracted by my new home. Karl and I received the keys — and met the landlord, thoroughly nice chappie — on Friday. We’ve been cleaning, sweeping, decorating and generally ogling. I am bloody knackered, my arms are about ready to drop off, and I’ve not eaten or slept properly all weekend. Nonetheless, I am still excited and can’t wait to finish the general preparations so that we can start moving over our furniture.
My most heartfelt thanks to my Mum and Lou who readily brought essential supplies on (coffee, biscuits, etc) and who’ve given us brand new furniture… all of which I assembled, dis-assembled when I realised I’d done it backwards and then re-assembled. Thank you also to my little sister, who helped with some painting yesterday.
..and Stuff
Thank you to those who’ve been playing with BellaBuzz and sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I made some untested changes late last week and uploaded them without warning you guys, which has likely broken some things. Bear with my while I get my bearings, answer my 24365845645645 e-mails and generally reacquaint myself with this thing called the Internet :)
I will update with pictures and more details of the new house as and when.. well, when I’m not busy!
Rachael said:
On 24 Feb at 9:11 pm
Congratulations on the new house! :)
Aisling said:
On 24 Feb at 9:14 pm
Whooot, Jem! Congrats on your new place!! Yayy. =)
Kaylee said:
On 24 Feb at 9:19 pm
It’s so exciting yet tiring to move. Congratulations on the new house! :D
Lene said:
On 24 Feb at 9:25 pm
Yay for your new home :3 I’m happy that you’re finally there!
Maren said:
On 24 Feb at 9:28 pm
Woop! Moving/decorating/etc is awesome fun. …for about 5 minutes. :p Congrats on the new place. ;)
Karl said:
On 24 Feb at 9:28 pm
I’m amazed at how much we’ve managed to get done/fixed…
Kiera said:
On 24 Feb at 9:31 pm
Congrats on your new home! It’s was exciting experience when I moved into my own. You feel all warm and fuzzy inside. =3
Amber said:
On 24 Feb at 9:33 pm
God, I remember moving into our house and how stressful it was — I don’t envy you at all! :P Hope it was worth the excitement though!
Belinda said:
On 24 Feb at 9:36 pm
How exciting, new house!
Bubs said:
On 24 Feb at 9:46 pm
Very exciting! Congratulations!
Nick said:
On 24 Feb at 9:52 pm
Now the real fun begins. Having just moved recently (and still in the process of moving three months later) I can say it (the actual process of moving) is not fun and is more of a pain in the ass than anything. A word of advice: get a moving truck! My parents thought they could save a few bucks by doing “multiple trips” instead of renting a truck, because the new house was so close, but it ended up being a pain in the ass and took 8X as much time (Big Suprise!). Buut I digress, congratulations on the new house and have fun moving :D.
Chien Yee said:
On 24 Feb at 9:54 pm
Congrats on the new house :D
Julie said:
On 24 Feb at 10:17 pm
Oh, great! :) I wonder how Hex will handle the move.
Peter Green said:
On 24 Feb at 10:22 pm
Congratulations! Hope it all works out nicely! :-)
Karl said:
On 24 Feb at 10:36 pm
Trucks will not be needed..all bar a few things I can move in the Astra..:) Give us 2 weeks tops, and we’ll be in. We don’t hang about. No phone there yet, so no internet..
Matt said:
On 24 Feb at 11:30 pm
I’ve been checking back since Friday anxiously awaiting this post! Congrats on the new place and I hope things from here on go smoothly. I know how stressful it can be (my older sister has moved house about four times (!!!)) and it can be such a pain although extremely exciting at the same time. Either way don’t worry too much about irregular blogging and such like as it’s extremely understandable – just make sure to get the phone/internet sorted asap, eh? Please? ;) And regarding BellaBuzz I’ll reinstall any newer version/s if you want/need as I love helping people (hah! Never thought I’d say that). /mammoth comment
Nyx said:
On 25 Feb at 4:18 am
Congratulations to you and Karl on the new house!
Ang said:
On 25 Feb at 4:41 am
Your thoroughly British words make me giggle. Knackered. I love assembling furniture!
Tracy said:
On 25 Feb at 6:45 am
Congrats on your new place. I find moving into something new quite exciting. It normally takes a couple of months until I’m furnished the way I like it, but that’s normal. I’ll try your FAQ-script sometime.
Mumblies said:
On 25 Feb at 7:14 am
:o)
Beth said:
On 25 Feb at 8:32 am
I enjoy moving,, it means I get a fresh start, on a new place.. where the walls have not met my kids and crayola yet =] enjoy your new place!!
Dave said:
On 25 Feb at 9:35 am
Congrats, Jem! Don’t go injuring yourself with all this work. There’s nothing wrong with pretending to be weak so that somebody else does the work.
Brent said:
On 25 Feb at 9:53 am
I can’t wait to see how you guys fixed up the house! Hurry up already, you can sleep when you’re dead, amirite?
Han said:
On 25 Feb at 9:54 am
I can’t wait till I get a house I can mess around with and decorate! I’ve been collecting things for mood boards for years! My house will be awesome! :P
Chantal said:
On 25 Feb at 11:01 am
Congrats on the new place and hopefully everything will go smooth while moving in.
Cory said:
On 25 Feb at 12:49 pm
Congratulations on the new house, and good luck moving in! Sounds like you’ve been busy; looking forward to the updates, and the new BellaBuzz updates.
Ashley said:
On 25 Feb at 2:06 pm
Ahhhhhhh!!! I am so excited for you (still!!)!!! And still incredibly jealous. :P I have to live vicariously through you right now I guess while I wait for my house. Sounds like you’ve definitely been busy. I’m happy to hear everything is going well with the house. I hope everything continues to go smoothly. Keep the updates coming! And pictures!!
Arwen said:
On 25 Feb at 4:07 pm
Aww, congrats on the house! It sounds like a blast, even if it’s tiring. As for furniture being assembled backwards… it sounds like me with Ikea-brand furniture. They’re company is based out of (I think?) Sweden and so the assembly instructions are step by step illustrations. There are no words at all. My friend and I put together an entire dining room set from Ikea once, and whilst putting together the 4 chairs, realized we put the bottom crossbars on backwards, and had to disassemble all of the chairs to fix them.
Arwen said:
On 25 Feb at 4:09 pm
(My comment didn’t post more than once this time, so I’m assuming you either fixed whatever was wrong or it’s a glitch on my home computer – I’m posting from work.)
Jem said:
On 25 Feb at 4:26 pm
^ Didn’t change anything, so your home computer must be bust ;) Thanks for the congratulatory comments everyone. Will update more as and when time allows :)
Christine said:
On 25 Feb at 5:32 pm
Yayayaya. I’m excited for you! I can’t wait to see how it turns out. I hate the cleaning part of moving.. and the heavy lifting. But i looooove the arranging and deciding how to decorate ^^
Annie said:
On 25 Feb at 6:47 pm
Congratulations on your new home :). I hope the decorating is going well.
Danny said:
On 25 Feb at 7:05 pm
Congratulations! Wait was worth it eh? Good luck in your new home :D
Stephanie said:
On 26 Feb at 9:53 pm
Not dead? Damn.
Melissa said:
On 27 Feb at 12:21 am
Hooray! Congrats on the new place, I am quite jealous!! XD
Becca said:
On 27 Feb at 5:27 am
That’s awesome that you got a house! I can’t wait till cory and I get a house. It really sucks cause we are living with my parents right now. :/ Good luck with being re acuantited with the internet. lol.