7 posts from 2007

The Mister and I opened our presents yesterday and I got so many great things from him. I love that he knows me so well and buys the things he knows I will love and need. One of the things he got me, and that was a complete surprise, was a much bigger memory card for my camera!  After that we had a relaxing evening just hanging out together and catching up - drinking some wine. As usual when I've been away he had cleaned the whole place before I got home, apparently since he'd been working so much while I was gone he got up at 6 am yesterday morning to sort the place out before my plane landed. Very sweet of him, but I'm fairly certain that it was a huge mess before that though and I would most likely have been pretty peeved off if he hadn't! I'm usually the one that keeps the house in order, I run things here basically and because of his demanding job I very rarely ask him to pick up the slack, but I love the fact that he won't let me come home to a messy house. It's just the way we have to do things around here with the job the Mister has.

Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer

I watched "The Perfume" on dvd last night and I can honestly say I wasn't impressed. Not after having read the book. Despite the movie being VERY long, they had changed the story too much for my liking. But the visual aspect of the movie was awesome, very beautiful.

I'm glad I didn't pay to go watch it at the movies though.

Poor neglected blog, I've been busy using the blogger one (http://inalelori.blogspot.com/) instead as I've become pretty bored with vox for some reason. I'm probably going to start using this one more though, I like the "privacy" option I can have on entries here.

Things have been a bit hectic here lately, the freezer broke and we bought that one at the same time as we bought the washing machine. It sucks because they are less than a year old. We had the engineer out the other day and he tried to fix it, but he wasn't sure what was wrong so he changed one thing, told us to wait and see, if we didn't notice an improvement he'd come back and try something else. Well it's about -33 C in there at the moment, and that's at warmest setting so it seems we've got some sort of super freezer now. I'm afraid to try the coldest setting! He called today like he said he would (woohoo, now that is a definite plus in my book!) and he isn't closing the call until he's worked out what the fault it. My theory is that it's a combination of things and it will never get fixed, so I'm hoping for a replacement, I am so fed up with it.

The husband and I have been busy doing some diy today, and then had pizza for dinner. As we have tomorrow off (I looove shift work) we are going to open a bottle of white wine this evening and just veg out.

He finally arrived, the washing machine repairman that is. He did his little thing with the hand-held device and worked out what was wrong with it. Unfortunately it will take a few days for the part to arrive so we are still without a washer. The mountain of laundry is growing by the day, and we have less than a week until we're off on our vacation. Looks like we might be packing some things that are unwashed and doing our laundry there as soon as we arrive.

Thanks to the early mornings we've been forced to have on our days off (our days off hardly ever falls on Saturdays and Sundays, for example today is a Saturday but it's a working day..) our sleeping habits are all wrong. We were tired enough to go to sleep at 8 pm last night, but held out until 9:30 pm, when we crashed and slept like rocks until 5 am this morning. If we don't get this sorted before our vacation we'll be even more screwed up when you add the time difference to the equation. This evening I am staying up until at least midnight and then I will try to have a late morning.

Do you know that we have been so busy lately that we have failed for check out when Easter is this year, I just looked it up on the calendar this morning because I saw that "the great big supermarket chain" are having a deal on Easter Eggs, it's buy one, get one free. And I thought that didn't happen until a week or two before Easter. I can't believe that they are already doing that!

I am so annoyed right now it's beyond belief! Our seven month old washer decided to break over the weekend! Thankfully it is still under warranty and we got an appointment for the repairman to come out yesterday between 8am and 6pm, do you think he showed? Nooooo, we stayed in and waited aaaall day long and he didn't even bother to call us. The husband called customer support numerous times and they couldn't find out anything either. Fortunately they re-scheduled for tomorrow and the husband demanded that we'd be the first on his list that day as we were not prepared to spend another day at home waiting for someone who will not arrive. Apparently they put this request in so now we'll just have to wait and see if he shows up at all. I can smell another letter of complaint being sent out, I wonder what they'll compensate us with this time (oh yes, this is not the first time we've had appointments that didn't show up, it was the gasman to service our boiler last month...)

I have a huge stack of laundry to do so I don't know how I'm going to solve that problem. A lot of it is white work shirts that my husband need for work, and how easy is it to get whites white when you're doing handwash? Not very.

The husband suggested we'd have a handwash party with beers tonight, just the two of us. But we were going out to eat at a Japanese restaurant. I am so exctied. NOT!

This c**p with the washer and a bunch of other stuff which I will save for later (all of which are having to do with other people, as in customer service, messing up and making our lives difficult through no fault of our own) just got to me last night. We had a huge argument, which is pretty rare for us, and I ended up crying last night and woke up with swollen eyes. Nice. The husband said I was beautiful before he left for work but you know what, I really looked BAD so I guess it must be love after all!

I decided now would be a good time to come back from my self imposed hiatus.

Hi!