It is becoming harder and harder to deny that in 22 days time I will be officially unemployed. People are asking me how my job interview went (well, it went okay, but they just didn't think I'd fit in) and what I am going to do next (nothing). As for the new job, there is none yet. AND IT BLOWS MY MIND. You know the saying about not throwing away your old shoes before you have new ones? Well, I just have! And at times it freaks me out, but most of the time I am totally looking forward to the prospect of becoming a SAHW (Stay At Home Wife) for a while.
Of course THE next project is to turn me into a SAHM as soon as we can, or maybe a plain old working mum while we are at it, since I have not proven to be a very good stay-at-home-anything in the past. When we moved to Dubai and I was looking for a job, my nights and days seemed to effortlessly blend into one, with Jonny waking me up at noon so we could have lunch together. Or breakfast, as it would be in my case. Making dinner lunch and life confusing. Luckily that was only for about 3 weeks, since it only took me that long to find a good job.
So I promised us that it will be different this time. Apart from the baby project there should be plenty to keep me busy from July onwards. We still have have loads to do for the new house, I have a thesis to write and I will now take my time to find a more suitable job. No point in making the same mistake twice, is there? So this time I will not make time for mid-morning naps after Jonny has left the house.
As a bit of a sideline, apparently the people at Source Antiques are cracking on and making tremendous progress with our kitchen. Or so they say! They have received a colour sample from Farrow and Ball so that they can match the Cooking Apple Green®. You just have to love the name of that paint! They also have Cook’s blue®, which also sounds very suitable for a kitchen, but is a bit too bright for the subdued persons that we are. The guy Tom (with whom Jonny is now developing a serious email history to make sure everything is going according to plan) from Source mentioned that he saw the very same colour in a top 10 of colours for this season’s home-style in a magazine. We have not figured whether it was a top three rank yet. But Cooking Apple Green it will be!
Thursday, 8 June 2006
Tuesday, 6 June 2006
The message
Saturday night Jonny and I watched a really soppy program about a couple that wanted to have babies but couldn’t. It was one of those we-can’t-bother-to-get-up-and-go-to-bed or maybe even too-lazy-to-get-the-remote-control-that-is-50cm-away moments. We were glued to the sofa and had to watch the drama unfolding and the characters go through Big Emotions. Needless to say it all worked out fine in the end and the viewers were left with a Message. I am unsure what the message was. But my giggling throughout the puke-enducing sweet melodrama gave us another message: we are ready for another try of IVF! If we can laugh about our own misery, that must surely be a good sign!
We had been talking about it before of course, but not set a date yet nor acted upon our deepest desires to become part of the club of tired young parents. Partly because we have the other big Project and weren’t sure if we could handle two Projects at the same time. But mostly, since both of us find it incredibly scary to go through the treatment again. But we decided that we are ready for it. We are ready to stick lots of needles in me, to support each other in dark moments that will undoubtedly come, but most importantly, to also laugh about it. I think I am on the verge of turning soppy myself now….
First hospital appointment: Wednesday 14 June, 8:30.
Another reason not to wait any longer: we don't want dwarfs for kids!
We had been talking about it before of course, but not set a date yet nor acted upon our deepest desires to become part of the club of tired young parents. Partly because we have the other big Project and weren’t sure if we could handle two Projects at the same time. But mostly, since both of us find it incredibly scary to go through the treatment again. But we decided that we are ready for it. We are ready to stick lots of needles in me, to support each other in dark moments that will undoubtedly come, but most importantly, to also laugh about it. I think I am on the verge of turning soppy myself now….
First hospital appointment: Wednesday 14 June, 8:30.
Another reason not to wait any longer: we don't want dwarfs for kids!
Friday, 2 June 2006
Sparks are flying
I forgot to post this picture... Flo took it with her mobile and she's really proud of it. Bless.
Floor heating
We popped around the house yesterday in order to meet up with Scott the Scott, our friendly carpenter. He needed to measure up the stairwell in order to order the stairs that he's going to fit for us.
We arrived to find the floor heating had been installed, as you can see above. The warm water will flow through plastic tubing, which will in turn heat the floor. We're not allowed in the house over the long bank holiday weekend since today they should have come and laid cement over the floor, burying the plastic tubing.
Downstairs, they've now bricked up the wall where the cupboard beneath the old stairs used to be.
They've also installed the last wall in the back of the house, forming the downstairs guest bedroom. This room has turned out to be a bit larger than we imagined, but we decided not to install a built in cupboard in this room, instead leaving the space open beneath the new stair case to give the study/hall a more spacious feel and to help lighten things up a bit.
We now have a ceiling upstairs too! The ceiling turns out to feel higher than we anticipated, again helping to give a bit more of a roomy feeling, which is good since we were concerned that the rooms upstairs were going to feel a bit small. As it turns out, they don't feel too bad, although once the furniture is brought in it may start to feel a bit cramped. But that's just a good excuse to keep a minimalist feel.
We arrived to find the floor heating had been installed, as you can see above. The warm water will flow through plastic tubing, which will in turn heat the floor. We're not allowed in the house over the long bank holiday weekend since today they should have come and laid cement over the floor, burying the plastic tubing.
Downstairs, they've now bricked up the wall where the cupboard beneath the old stairs used to be.
They've also installed the last wall in the back of the house, forming the downstairs guest bedroom. This room has turned out to be a bit larger than we imagined, but we decided not to install a built in cupboard in this room, instead leaving the space open beneath the new stair case to give the study/hall a more spacious feel and to help lighten things up a bit.
We now have a ceiling upstairs too! The ceiling turns out to feel higher than we anticipated, again helping to give a bit more of a roomy feeling, which is good since we were concerned that the rooms upstairs were going to feel a bit small. As it turns out, they don't feel too bad, although once the furniture is brought in it may start to feel a bit cramped. But that's just a good excuse to keep a minimalist feel.
Thursday, 1 June 2006
Kitchen ordered
Yesterday we placed an order for our new kitchen. It's going to be a refurbished/restored original 1950's kitchen, made by the factory that manufactured Spitfire fighter planes during the 2nd World War.
As you can see in the picture above, the kitchen is made from alluminium, based on the alluminium forming skills that the factory developed during the manufacture of the planes. This kitchen was the first of it's kind to utilise a modular unit kitchen design.
We just need to decide on a colour, but rest assured it won't be pink as in the picture above, but rather a colour that fits into the pallette that Flo has chosen for the house.
Just need to figure out how we are going to get the kitchen over to the Netherlands once it has been put together (since it's made in the UK), but the supplier seems quite excited by the prospect of a jollie over to continent.
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