Am Not Coping

🎉🤗💕 Yay @Zoe7 ..... ‼️

Painting ..... go you ❣️

Its due due to rain here from early afternoon @Zoe7, and as much as she loves football is as much as D2 hates rain ......

It has already started raining here @Faith-and-Hope so it is an inside day today now.

I have a little fluffball snuggled in atm so not moving off the couch for now lol

Is D2 going to the final with D1 and SiL or is she watching it at home?

Watching at home @Zoe7 .... no loose tickets to this game to be found ..... the two that have had to chase hard for them, I can tell you, and it won’t be an easy crowd to try to manage D2 in. It would become a baby-sitting under difficult conditions circumstance instead of the awesome time they will have. And she wouldn’t enjoy the rush and bustle.

I get it @Faith-and-Hope It is definitely a different atmosphere going into a grandfinal - huge crowds, plenty of activities going on both outside and inside the ground and a lot of noise. Having Collingood in the final would certainly add to that rush and bustle too - they are the biggest club by a long way. I do hope WCE win for all of you - no doubt I will be shouting at the tv barracking for them myself

What have you been up to today @Faith-and-Hope - still sorting out your art space?

I have cleaned the kitchen a little and organised and sent off the paper work I needed to send to HR. I have done one load of washing but need to do another one - that might need to wait until tomorrow though as it looks like it is going to rain again. Tonight I might try for the painitng - at least I have cleaned up a little and made a little space now. If I am too tired I won't start because once I start I don't want to have to stop until I have done most of what I want to do ...getting in that right head and heartspace is alluding me right now too

Yep ..... still mo big stuff about @Zoe7 .... and had to do some shopping so we all have at least the basics for the weekend ......

i am hoping to set up a small art project this weekend @Zoe7. It depends a bit on how much I get done over the rest of the day .....

Talking about art projects that you don’t want to stop once you start, I am in the process of setting up a fully furnished unit for long-term rental. It needs to be done like a holiday apartment, because it becomes someone’s “home away from home” when they are transferred here for a year or two, or come to the “big smoke” for their kid’s education, or whatever .....

I have some cushions already, to go on lounge chairs, but I was looking up some cushion covers and posters and things on the Internet last night, trying to make all the bits and pieces look like they belong together ..... which essentially means working out a colour palette ..... something that works with the bits and pieces of furniture so it doesn’t look like a mis-matched jumble .... when in fact that is what it is ..... 😊

It needs to be clean, neat and homely. So .... you find two posters that work together, and then there is no third one for the other room ..... or you find a lovely poster, but no cushion cover that works with it ..... or it doesn’t belong with the furniture we’ve got ..... or .... it ... or ...... it’s like sitting there and not being able to fit the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle in, so you have to undo a whole section and put it back together again .....

So I stayed up late ..... but I

got it done ..... but now I’m tired ....,. 😏

You have been a busy little bee @Faith-and-Hope I love decorating but also know what I like and don't like - the trick then is finding things that go together in whatever style you are going for - so I get your frustration and am glad you managed to work it out. I can't wait to have my house back and be able to renovate both the bedroom and spare room. I am going to turn the spare room into an art studio/home office/music room - all 3 things can work in the space as it is quite large. I will build a shelving unit on one wall for all my books and seat under the window where I will have the art space. It is a beautiful bay window so the natural light coming in will be perfect for painting.

They are my plans anyway - just need all my school stuff gone

It sounds lovely @Zoe7 ..... and a view of the garden is just the best.

There is not much garden out that window - I have an extremely small front yard @Faith-and-Hope but it will be full of flowers when I finally get to it. The back yard is what I have been working on most as that is where I spend most of my time. The garage floor and driveway need to be re-done as well as the front paths so there is no point even starting my fron garden until I can do all that - and that takes time and money that I don't have right now. I do have a plan on what I want to do there though - maybe this summer I can get it under way - so much revolves around having my garage done and things being able to be stored in there. Right now it is just frustrating!

Are you still sorting your space or settling in for the night?

I have put my feet up for a while @Zoe7. There was talk of us going out for dinner tonight, but I haven’t heard anything more yet. It’s likely to be all last-minute if we do.