Feels like everyday I have a list of "Stuff" to get done… .and lately feels like everyday hardly anything ever gets crossed off my damn list of "Stuff" to get done.  Some things have been sitting on the "Stuff" list for so long now the cryptic little shorthand messages I’ve left myself as reminders no longer make sense to me and I wrote them!

But after yesterday writing about how I’ve been feeling like we’re all staring into the abyss I figured I was going to accomplish SOMETHING today and there would be things getting crossed off the "Stuff" list come hell or high water!!! (No pun intended given that I’ve just heard there’s a tsunami warning for the east coast of Australia).

So today I managed to:

Pick up the dry cleaning (three days late)
Enroll in History and Literature classes at Griffith Uni
Set up a Direct Debit payment and paperless bill for Phone bills
Send Centrestink an income estimate (shrug… something to do with Family tax stuff??)
Buy scrubbing brushes and a smoke alarm for extension work
Send off for quote on brass plaque for new room
Call security dude and tell him to shove his exorbitant quote where the sun don’t shine
Complete Notice of Intention to Defend Small Claims Debt doover from Chipmunks
Reschedule specialists appointment for next week
Get quotes for timber to make Bookcases of Doom (ZOMG… this stuff ain’t cheap)

Which would be grand if that were all that were on the list.  But of course it isn’t and I’ll be back doing bullshit life administration and shopping for things I know nothing about (ie – any and every building related item we require) tomorrow!
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I’ve not been on here a lot lately.  That’s not to say I haven’t been at the PC… I have … A LOT.  It’s just that over the last two months I’ve gone from spending my spare time online reading my friend’s blogs and catching up on world news to shopping for steel, concrete, hire equipment, bricks, roof tiles, timber, double glazed windows, gyprock, cornice, stud adhesive, flat hammers, nail plates, electrial wiring, light fittings, switches, ethernet cables, furniture quality timber, carpets, lounge suites etc, etc, etc.

The list goes on and on and on and on and on.

I’ve positively hammered my Visa card with all this and was any moment expecting to see the ANZ Falcon swoop down and cut me off… and what a comedy of errors (read: horrors) that would set in motion.  Though on the upside at this rate I’ll have no trouble whatsoever in getting enough frequent flyer points saved up to fly business class to London for the Slappers Grand Reunion Tour of Europe in 2015.  I have to admit though I am actually getting more than a little sick of shopping online given that none of it feels like ‘real’ shopping (by which I mean there’s been nary a bottle of nailpolish in any of my ‘shopping carts’  🙂

There’s no child labour laws in Qld are there?

Mr K looking happy.
(his head must be still only around 6′ off the ground).

6’9" tall + ridiculously small roof cavities = Ow! Ow! Ow! Fuckity ow!!!

On the upside – it is starting to look like a room
And almost like it’s been there forever already how weird is that?
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Shopping for furniture is usually fun… but I’m feeling somewhat impaired in the decision making department of late so not sure it’s a good idea to be choosing furniture given that you usually have to put up with it for several years.  I’m having real difficulty here because I’ve had a particular itch for many years to invest in some really good quality Moran leather Hampshire (Chesterfield style) lounges.  I’ve always loved the look of them – they have that old English library/study feel about them or perhaps it’s a cigars and brandy gentlemen’s club sort of thing.  Either way I’ve been absolutely lusting after these sofas for well on a decade and a half now…

They are absolutely classic in design, well built and definitely the sort of item that you could pass to your grandkids one day, but they come with a couple of drawbacks: 1) they’re remarkably short in the back… which is totally not a problem for someone like me who barely makes 5’1" on a good day and… 2) they take about four or five years of ‘wearing in’ before they’re really comfortable.   These couches are like buying a pair of Doc Martens – you know it’s going to take a while before they wear in and you’ll expect a few blisters here and there while they’re new but once you’re past that… they’ll be the most comfy boots you’ll ever own.

There’s a couple of other options of course.  Moran make another leather sofa that I quite like, slightly more contemporary in styling but still has the hand studded finish that would match nicely with the antique red leather Romsey wingback that we already have.  This one is called the Brando and it certainly doesn’ t feel like it would need ‘wearing in’.  It’s pretty soft and comfy straight away

 

But it doesn’t have quite the same style about it and is far more contemporary in design.  Not a classic but still pretty classy.   So now I am having a decision making dilemma… do I go with the ones I have been coveting for half my life knowing full well they’ll take years to be truly comfortable and maybe even then only for short arses like me?  Or do we bow to practicality and choose something that will likely feel less like breaking in new Doc Martens and more like pulling on an old pair of well loved ugg boots?!?!?

Or then of course we could branch out and do something totally out of character and opt for something completely different… and by ‘completely different’ I mean something that is actually considered current and fashionable… like this… 

This sofa is much more chocolate brown and gold rather than burgundy in colour (dodgy advertising photographers…. I don’t know!) .  It is rather tizzy (who said that?  It couldn’t have been me!) and even though that’s a helluva lot of cushions that can be ‘out of place’ – it would suit our room and our purpose nonetheless.  Decisions, decisions, decisions!!!