This Week …

 

Well, I’m still online but only just. Today will be our last day in the rental. There have been some finishing-off-the-shed-building sagas this week that have stopped us from moving in 2 days ago, when we were supposed to.

beautifulness on the bathroom floor

 

Thankfully the lovely real estate property manager, Maria at Fisk & Nagle, has given us this extra time. We so appreciate your helpfulness, Maria x

Sagas included:

* plumbing not able to be done until Tuesday {the day we were supposed to be out}.

* villaboard not up in the bathroom so no waterproofing for showering.

* plumbing not finished – it’s still not but we need to move in regardless. The kitchen sink hasn’t got an S-bend so not connected to grey water yet. No spout on the kitchen sink either. Vanity/bowl in bathroom not installed.

* shower base/bath needed propping up which I wasn’t aware of until yesterday while moving in. So we had to take some drastic measures and do it as quickly as possible and that meant right away. So off to Mitre 10 I went for some better expander filler than I’d originally bought {that first $24 can went absolutely NO WHERE!}. Two huge cans in hand we expander filled underneath the bath. It possibly went a little too expandy and stuffed up the way the bath sat on it’s frame but with NO time available we had to go with it.

* Accidental nail driven into copper piping in the bathroom. Off to Reece’s plumbing to get a compression joiner {I now know what that means – a metal joiny thingy that can be tightened up with a shifting spanner rather than with an oxy tool which we don’t have}.

* bee sting! Very hurty. Thankfully Lynda turned up just before I was stung and she got to apply her freshly completed first aid course on me except we didn’t have any ice. That threw a spanner in the works for Lynda’s check list of ‘how to treat a bee sting patient’.

* no door on the bathroom.

* Lewi finally fell apart due to the ‘no door on the bathroom’. He’s been so amazingly stoic over this whole process. He’s been such a helper and hasn’t complained very much, all things considered but when he found out, at the end of the day, that there would be no door on the bathroom for a little while, he fell to pieces. He cried and cried and got to vent a lot of what he’d been feeling. There was a lot of loathing of the block and the shed for about an hour and a half as I cleaned and moved and validated his feelings. Thankfully I was in a reasonably good space myself so I was able to listen and hear his feelings while he vented. Then, after ripping into the only food available, which was the little hamper that Gerry from LJ Hooker gave us a few days ago {for buying our block of land 6 months ago! LOL} he settled down and started to feel OK again. He then tried to look at things in a more positive light and apologised for saying he hated it at the block and the shed but that he was just feeling really sad and worried. For a boy who has a real need for bathroom privacy I’m so very impressed that he was able to move on and help me come up with solutions for this dilemma. All along the shed building journey he’s been talking about how important it is for him to have a bathroom door with no glass and a lock {obviously he is a child who has spent 6 years in a bathroom that had stained glass panels that could be seen through and a lock that didn’t work very well}. So of course the news of no door was going to be a biggy.

* Villaboard not finished due to the plumbing issues.

* No cover on the hot water system. Apparently it needs one to be protected from the rain which indeed started to fall quite heavily before we left there last night.

* The whole top end of the block looks like a tip. Tom actually mentioned that it looked like a well known tip-looking property around our neck of the woods. For a neat freak like me this is paaaaiiiinful. But, nothing I can do right now when I have so many other things going on. I know it will be cleaned up soon, when we’re settled. I hope.

So, that’s an update on the sheddy stuff. We will definitely be sleeping there tonight with all of the unfinished bits. As long as we have a gas bottle for hot water and I silicone the shower area then we should be able to at least have a hot shower. A bit more carpet cleaning here at the rental a a mop of the floors. Move the fridge and my bed mattress and a few more bits and pieces and then we’re all done.

Before I go offline for a little while {how am I going to cope?} here’s what else we got up to this past week or so …

Lovely dinners with lovely friends after full days of moving and building and crying. Thank you Lynda and all of the Racz’s and Mer and Myoung and kidlets for having us for dinner. It was sooooooo helpful and lovely and relaxing.

My littlest sister turned sweet 16 on Monday. Happy Birthday to you, lovely girl-who-now-wears-funky-purple-glasses. Enjoy your year of being 16.

 

 

Guess who got an Ipad and 3 groovy ipad covers for her birthday?

 

 

Lew ate 3 pomegranates!

 

 

And enjoyed a new found iphone game – Scribble Nauts.

 

 

As well as some more fun using ColorSplash.

 

 

 

And taking photos while driving in the car.

 

OK, well I'd better stop this procrastinating and get into the rest of the day. I have a feeling it’s going to be a long one.

Take care and I can’t wait to be back here in bloggy land with you again very soon.

 

Kim x