I had a mysterious hand delivered letter in my mailbox today, addressed to some people who are not me and marked "private and confidential".
It can't be too confidential because it was a card I was able to read through the envelope, which I presume would be meaningful to whoever it was addressed to but not to me. There is no address or anything so there is no way of passing it on to the right person. I'm thinking maybe just put it through the shredder?
You can have these ones for today
You post lots of pics because she is photogenic and you get lots of good pics. Miss Meow defaults to an ill-defined silhouette, so most of my photos of her end up going straight to the bin.
This is a brand new house, there is not really anything to document. There are pages of everything being perfect in great detail.
Basically any damage is going to be on me. There are little pots of all the paint colours though so I can do touchups, and spare tiles and floor boards so any damage to those can be fixed without redoing everything too. Hopefully I can avoid any damage though - I have lots of things like shelf liners and caps to go on all the furniture to stop scratches. Plus many door mats and rugs.
Last time I rented a property the condition report was a carbon copy checklist of a couple of pages, with a few lines to add comments. This time I have 170 pages, with multiple photos of everything. There are 9 photos of the front door knob.
30/50 there were many guesses.
I'd like a large platter of breakfast pastries, floated into the room by balloons, please.
That was a loooooong drive home.
The GPS told me traffic was really bad on my route, but assured me if I followed the new route it had calculated I would be home before 7. I decided to trust it, and ended up going through a bunch of places I did not recognise (Ascot Vale and Travencore included). Once I was on that route the GPS informed me that traffic was actually bad that way too and there was no way I was getting home before 7.
When I did finally get home there were packages waiting though - Miss Meow's tree cat scratcher and the leaf shaped mats for the garden themed corner, Mr Woof's new fluffy grey rugs for the front bedroom, and the big rug for the lounge. The big rug looks nicer than I was expecting and is very soft.
I have bed!
That took a lot more work putting together than anticipated, and I still have to screw down the slats. I'm happy with how it looks though. I don't think I've got enough enthusiasm left to start on the side tables today, I might have a start on the dining table and cat trees instead.
I still don't have any power. Hopefully it will be done soon, I'd like to have it on before I leave.
Edit: I also have dining chairs and a hanging light to go over the table. I don't have the table yet, so I made the footstool fill in ๐คฃ
My old water heater used about 16 matches and a complicated pattern of pressing and releasing the gas button. It never occured to me new ones would self light.
It is an instantaneous heater, so no waiting required.
I have house! ๐
Still no power, but that should be connected some time today. I'll need to figure out how to light the pilot light on the water heater at some point, but's not urgent. I won't be actually moving in for a few weeks.
It is as expected a bit on the dirty side - just the expected layer of dust etc. that accumulates in an empty house. It does mean I won't have to do a perfect clean when I leave at least - but I definitely need to add window cleaning to my to do list sooner rather than later!
For afternoon fun I shall measure all the things, then assemble a bed and side tables and a couple of cat trees.
In other good news for the day, the accidental foam couch makes a quite comfortable temporary seat, so I have something to sit on before the furniture is delivered.
Miss Meow definitely likes the new mat I put in her carrier, she keeps napping in there. She's in there now snoring away.