Sometimes Up To Something

We've had a problem with the hot tap in our bathroom for a while now. First it started making noises. Then it started dripping, and wouldn't stop. I had to stop using it (which was a very hard habit to break) in case repeated use just made it worse. Which meant whenever I wanted to use hot water to wash my hands or my toothbrush (I always give my toothbrush a wash with hot water before I use it, got to get rid of those mouth germs), I had to go in the kitchen. And today... I still do. My Dad got in touch with at least two plumbers about getting this tap fixed, but they never got back to him. Apparently there aren't many plumbers who are willing to take on such a small and simple job. So he asked someone my Gran recommended to him who he referred to as a "Handyman". He was supposed to come over today. So I got home, went in the bathroom... And the hot tap was still dripping. When my Dad came downstairs, I asked him what happened. He said that person had been over b...

I thought I'd have to spend most of the year with my Dad here, but now it might not be that way. He said he might not go back to my Stepmother's home in Brazil until after my sister's wedding near the end of June, but now he thinks he might go back next month instead. And he said he wasn't planning on coming back during summer, or even over Christmas. On the one hand, I love living alone and having the house to myself. Whenever my Dad leaves for Brazil, the first thing I do is tidy up all the things he often leaves on various kitchen surfaces instead of in the cupboards or in one place. On the other, I do sometimes get lonely, especially on days when there's nothing I have to do, and I can't have a pet until I move out. And on a third hand, it means I will have to face spider season alone. Guess I'd better get back to looking at pictures and videos of huge spiders in perparation for August, which is when it starts. 

So today we finally got round to getting the rest of downstairs sorted out. It involved a lot of lifting, pushing, moving things around, dusting, and deciding where to put a large number of bottles of alcohols at various levels. Anyway, I've been wanting to change the sofa covers for a while. And my Dad was obviously tired and didn't want to do it today. But I wanted to, and I knew he wouldn't want to, so I said I'd do it myself. He didn't believe I'd be able to do it, but he let me try anyway. So I did it. And it was easier than he made it sound. Sure, it did take some effort to get the old covers off and put the other ones on, and I made a few mistakes with which cushions needed which cushion covers, but I managed it in the end. So this time I was actually right about being able to do something I hadn't done before. 

 At first it didn't take me so long to re-arrange my room, I had the bed horizontally along the back wall, I had te shelf next to it... But there was a gap at the end of the bed and I couldn't fill it with anything, and moving anything else there just made the area seem too crowded. So I ended up spending a few more hours moving the bed so it was along the wall on the right, then having the shelf next to that, and then having to move a load of other things as well. But it's done now. I've even decorated it a bit. It does feel more spacious even though it still has so much stuff that i don't know what to do with, or will need to hold in here for a while during other things being done to the house.

I think I really did need a change of scenery. I feel better now. Hopefully tomorrow afternoon I'll have my room back, and I can re-arrange things. At some point I'll sort through my stuff to get rid of things I know I won't use again. It's hard, but sometimes you have to do it, even with gifts.

So, following on from my last post, I finally started watching this year's series of the Traitors. I'm hooked now. I think I can be caught up by tomorrow, unless there's another episode tomorrow night. Anyway, I needed some more space so I'm at my Gran's house, though I think I will have my room mostly back by Sunday. I say mostly because I'll need to have some other stuff in there because the other doors upstairs are going to be replaced. But hopefully I should be able to move the bed in order to make some more space.

First day of things being done to the house, I went out to my grandparen'ts house because I haven't seen them in a while and I didn't want to have to hear loud noises of saws and drills all day, and then came back to find most of the living room floor was missing, there's just pieces of wood and bricks under there.  But anyway, I also drew this:  

Back to work training today and there was just the right amount of snow to not make me unhappy because of bad memories from when I was 12 and my Mum was at work early and I had to get the bus to school on my own but the radio didn't warn me in time that school was closed so I got there and had a meltdown and Mum had to come out of work to get me and then she decided I wouldn't be at school the next day but it turned out school was open again (which made no sense because it was a Friday and what was the point of closing on Thursday and opening on Friday when you just had the weekend coming up anyway?) and I missed out on my favourite classes and missed out on the one time a teacher promised to give us chocolates and she didn't even save one for me (and this was a big deal for me at the time because I was freaking 12 and didn't get to eat chocolate that often!) and I missed out on an attendance award many weeks later because of that ONE DAY and I don't think I'll ...

My Dad wants to get some people over to fix some things in the house, including finally getting the door to my room back in the doorway (it was broken off many years ago during an argument that I don't even remember what it was about), and getting rid of that wooden frame that used to hold a water tank, along with fixing the part of the floor and wall around that area. This means I've had to move a load of things out of the way and will have to temporarily sleep in another room while it happens. But I've been thinking about once it's done, maybe I'll re-arrange the room a bit. If there's space, I could have the bed along the wall horizonatally instead of vertically, and that would allow more space for things (there's so many boxes and stuff). But if not, I can just have the bed against the part of the wall that no longer has wood in the way.