New House

I’ve been meaning to blog so many times and just never got round to it *sigh*

So anyway, I finished uni for Easter on 24th March, and since then I’ve been rushing around all over the place. I went home and saw my relatives, and took them all to London with the aid of Nika the tour guide planning where I could take them Overall, it was pretty fun but tiring. And expensive. The train tickets alone cost about ?400 (about $700 or something).

Anyway…24th March was also the day that I got the keys to the house my dad bought in Nottingham. I have a mortgage. I have housemate(s). Life is scary.

But the house is soooooo nice. I’ll post pictures when I go back home and have regular Internet access (I’m in an Internet cafe with Andy at the moment).
So now all my time is taken up with old-people things of whether that bookcase would co-ordinate with that shelving and whether ?300 is really too much to pay for a gorgeous dining room table *sigh*

In between bouts of cleaning and tidying (so far, all the chrome stuff in the bathroom, the floor and wall tiles in there, replacing of the shower curtain, the conservatory glass and wooden floor, the dining room/lounge floor, and organising/buying of kitchen stuff), I’m going shopping, writing up notes etc. So I’m pretty busy, especially as I have so much uni work that I’m (supposedly) doing.

Furniture is pretty limited; originally an inflatable mattress that I bought, but our kickass curvy white leather sofa arrived yesterday. There is literally very little else – no cooker or fridge even (!!) Luckily, town is a beautiful 20-min-walk-by-the-canal away, and there are two retail parks within walking distance. The nearest one has Sainsbury’s, Pizza Hut, a restaurant and bar, and random other shops like PC World, Pets At Home etc. So we’re alternating between buying food the same day from Sainsbury’s and microwaving it, eating out, and getting takeaways. Plus, PC World has a free Internet lounge, which is where we go if we need a desperate Internet fix (it’s very slow, and a lot of sites are blocked).

I’m going home possibly tomorrow, but hopefully Saturday, to see more relatives and hopefully to buy some gorgeous black and white suede tablemats (I don’t have a fridge or a cooker, but I have a nice lava lamp and I’m determined to get those placemats!!). I’m so good at prioritising And to see my family again of course lol. Then my dad said he’s gonna drive to my Notts house on Monday to buy a fridge etc., and to bring some of my stuff up – candles that I bought for the house, my DVD player, and some other bits and pieces.

I have ?1.30/26 mins left on this computer, so I’m going to relax and browse some more sites for a bit. Hopefully I’ll blog again soonish with photos of the house xx