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Sat, May. 9th, 2015 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annarti
My old bedroom furniture was picked up this morning as scheduled and paid for, and the new stuff delivered also as scheduled just before lunch :D Then spent an hour constructing the bed. This thing is no cheap and easy Ikea construction, bitch is heavy, and it's not even solid wood. Like, you can hear that the beams and everything are hollow, and yet each bit has gotta be 20 kilos, it's insane. That thing is not going anywhere for a long time yet. The two bedside tables don't currently fit because of the old wardrobes still sitting there (someone's bid on them! FINALLY!), and I'm yet to decide if I want to actually install the second one after the old wardrobes are removed. Probably won't. I'll keep it in its box until I get a bigger place, so that'll be a while, but I'll have the matching set when I do. Or if, y'know, someone ends up sharing the bed earlier than that. WHO KNOWS.
So once that was done, lugged the mattress on top of it and spent the next 15 minutes just starfished on the middle of it omgitissoawesomeIcan'teven. I CAN'T EVEN. I'm tall. I've never, EVER been in a bed where my toes or possibly my entire feet hang over the end. Well, 'never' since I grew tall enough to reach the end of my own bed, so that'd be a good 15 years. And my old single bed had a foot, as demonstrated here, with struts that you can't see through the scarves but they're there, so I've always had to poke my toes through the gaps between the struts. NONE OF THAT NOW. Just... middle of the bed, legs and arms splayed, unable to touch the edge in any direction, and it's amazing.
Finally got myself off the thing to spend a further 15 minutes fitting the fitted electric blanket on and also the sheets and quilt and pillows (note to self: you only have three pillows. Get another one for the purposes of symmetry) and installing Ted and IT'S BEAUTIFUL. I've got the blanket turned on now, mostly to see how it goes. I've got the foot end cranked up to 9 and the head end at 3. Because my electric blanket can do that. Also to see just how hot 9 is.
Then over to Mum and Dad's for footy (which we WON. About bloody time. Two losses in a row is irritating) and dinner (pizzas! Done on the gas barbecue. Sogood) and then home driving through pea soup, I swear. Half the way I could only see as far as the next reflectors in the middle of the road. 60 zone and travelling at about 30-40 the whole way. And then suddenly burst out underneath the cloud line and I COULD SEE what a relief. Sure is winter. WHICH REMINDS ME the roof seems to be fixed. No dripping today, at least.
I know it's Saturday, but in the absence of anyone online I'm just going to have an early night PURELY FOR NEW BED PURPOSES.
I could put all my clothes back in the drawers but I really can't be arsed. Photos will come when the whole room's done. It's still a hell of a hotchpotch right now BUT THE BED IS DONE. I'm going to go and use it.
So once that was done, lugged the mattress on top of it and spent the next 15 minutes just starfished on the middle of it omgitissoawesomeIcan'teven. I CAN'T EVEN. I'm tall. I've never, EVER been in a bed where my toes or possibly my entire feet hang over the end. Well, 'never' since I grew tall enough to reach the end of my own bed, so that'd be a good 15 years. And my old single bed had a foot, as demonstrated here, with struts that you can't see through the scarves but they're there, so I've always had to poke my toes through the gaps between the struts. NONE OF THAT NOW. Just... middle of the bed, legs and arms splayed, unable to touch the edge in any direction, and it's amazing.
Finally got myself off the thing to spend a further 15 minutes fitting the fitted electric blanket on and also the sheets and quilt and pillows (note to self: you only have three pillows. Get another one for the purposes of symmetry) and installing Ted and IT'S BEAUTIFUL. I've got the blanket turned on now, mostly to see how it goes. I've got the foot end cranked up to 9 and the head end at 3. Because my electric blanket can do that. Also to see just how hot 9 is.
Then over to Mum and Dad's for footy (which we WON. About bloody time. Two losses in a row is irritating) and dinner (pizzas! Done on the gas barbecue. Sogood) and then home driving through pea soup, I swear. Half the way I could only see as far as the next reflectors in the middle of the road. 60 zone and travelling at about 30-40 the whole way. And then suddenly burst out underneath the cloud line and I COULD SEE what a relief. Sure is winter. WHICH REMINDS ME the roof seems to be fixed. No dripping today, at least.
I know it's Saturday, but in the absence of anyone online I'm just going to have an early night PURELY FOR NEW BED PURPOSES.
I could put all my clothes back in the drawers but I really can't be arsed. Photos will come when the whole room's done. It's still a hell of a hotchpotch right now BUT THE BED IS DONE. I'm going to go and use it.