The matter of most importance..

Unfortunately we can't tell you why or where this photo was taken but suffice to say, it was a good day and it reminded me of the promises we made to each other..

It is a great blessing to find someone you love who loves you back the same, someone to wake up to every morning and someone to share your day stories with as you fall asleep at night.

To have and to hold..

Numbed finger and strained thumb

One belongs to the husband, the other to me..

What caused it? The bloody kitchen tiles we removed last week.

No.. I never imagined it would be that hard to remove kitchen tiles when floor boards can just be yanked off (okay.. they are laminates.. but still...)

Hummmmmmmmm...

The lucky man has gone off to work and as I do not have classes today................

I'll be painting the kitchen and cutting underfloor heating boards to fit the floor.

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The job itself it actually not that bad once you get started and going but after a whole week of full time building, it really isn't something you jump up for anymore..

Even poor Bronxie is miserable.. he's probably wondering what happened to his home and why mummy haven't had time to sit with him for hours just stroking his head.

On a brighter note.. we are half way there.. just some more painting, second coats, sanding, connecting the underfloor heating, flooring, tiling, assembling the kitchen..

I make it sound so easy.

The dad have been pretty impressed with what we've done and the amount of work we've taken on ourselves and stuck to.

We haven't really given in to much hiring. The electricals had to be done by an electrician, the rooflights we were scared of falling off the roof, the outside tap... hmm.. we met a very nice plumber who is very fatherly.

Everything else have been done by us.

We are now considering getting someone to do the flooring but that's mainly because we don't have the right equipment and it's too much hassle to rent it for a small floor surface.

So all in all, we are mighty proud :) Yeap, doing all these and learning them while we are young and able.

I know some people don't believe in it but we have learnt so much through this build it is all worth it.

Personally I don't understand how people who don't understand building work can hire someone else and just leave them to the job without trying to understand it beforehand or doing it themselves!

It is expensive and if they were to do a botched job you will never even know!

Anyway.. it is almost 9... so I'll have to start my day

Little things that make me laugh

In the interests of maintaining a small claim on authorship of this blog, here's a sign I saw in Boots today that made me laugh:

Carpenter boy

Our house has very strange designs mainly the open tread staircase (which apparently allows light through so that the hall is brighter).. and some really strange swirly ugly old fashioned ceiling plaster.

Apparently it was the trend during the 80's (which was when our house was built).

Actually, thinking about it, the stairs in my home in Ipoh were also open tread and I remember my mum telling me about my dad laying carpet over it so I wouldn't fall through the holes while I was young.

The man was very proud of what he did for his daughter.. what I didn't get though was his choice of carpet colour! It was dark red :P Bleah...

Thankfully the husband had a better idea and instead of just putting carpet over the open treads we filled it up with a plank of wood supported by some wooden sticks on the back of it.

Almost done!

 

Handsome carperter boy..

Obviously, a proper carpenter might have been able to stick those sticky things in a straight line.. hehe.. unfortunately I was doing them and as long as they stay where they are.. I'm not fussed.

Plus.. we are eventually going to put in an understairs storage area so all that ugly work is going to be covered up.

Another job we've done with the help of Mike and Juan is this

Mike and his favourite tool.. that man is destructive!

We also put in solar lights upstairs in the corridor and bathroom as it was very dark. Will put the pictures up someday.. we paid to have them put up instead of doing it ourselves though.. It involved climbing up to the roof and cutting holes so we figured 2 clumsy fat people up there wouldn't be the smartest thing to do!

Haha..

Bossy boss

10.36 on a Saturday night and guess what's the husband doing?

He's sorting out the plumbing/boiler upstairs.

And has been since last Saturday......

We've had to live without hot water the entire week because the boiler stuff is taking a LOT longer than we anticipated.

The poor thing have probably spent almost 25 hours or more on it by now.

It's taking so long because of inexperience.

When it's all done, he says he will write about it because it is his 'grand design'.

I, on the other hand.. can't really do much except to get out of his way and be bossy every now and again.

Well.. all that and also learning about HTML, CSS, XML and a host of others which are all as good as aliens to me but will have to be learnt if I want to get good grades for the digital document management course..

At least I only need to know what they are capable of doing and how everything sorts of ties in.

All that so that I can go boss developers in the future.. bwahhahahahahaah....