where I have been, here's a quick run through. I'm not going into too much detail, cause I've got to grips with a lot of it. But just so you know, if you're interested....here's what's gone on since the beginning of last year.
Jan - May 2007 Battling with local council for somewhere to live. Lots of correspondence, lots of phone calls, and one huge complaint letter, complete with articles of reference. Oh yes, that was a bundle of laughs.
April 2007 Council offered temp accommodation in an area where drug dealers and prostitutes were the majority. Took my kids to see a house where the front door was scrawled with profanity. Explained to my kids that f**k was a very naughty word, and they shouldn't use it. Moved in with mum.
May 2007 Gave birth. Still living with mum. Still battling council for somewhere to live.
July 2007 Council found us a house. So we decorated. And it took us ages. Still at mum's. Computer blew up. Car blew up.
August 2007 Got everyone pretty much settled by the end of this month. The girls took it a bit hard, cause they were so used to mum's house, but they became okay with it. Neighbours are lovely. Which is always a plus - hey at least I'm living somewhere. Fixed computer. Got a new car. A very old new car.
September- October 2007 Got free view TV, cause Virgin wanted £100 deposit for TV, phone and Internet, and I'm not made of money. Especially not that extortionate amount. As much as I love the Internet, it was not going to happen. I kinda scared the little sales guy who came to the house though - for which I am terribly sorry. Honest. Got computer fixed. Kids were baptised at our local Church. the service was lovely. Unfortunately we were late for the lunch that we'd arranged with everyone who came because my car got broken into and the stereo got nicked. Just my luck that on the only day that I forgot to take the face out of the car, thieves decided to check out my really old Honda.
November - December 2007 Christmas is coming, and Seb is getting fat. Well, chubby. But very, very cute. I find out that the council (who still have not responded to my letter of complaint as at the date of posting this) are doing something called Decent Homes. It means we'll get a new kitchen and bathroom - which is nice, cause we do need more cupboards, and our bathroom is, well, tiny, cramped and crap.
Christmas comes and the girls love the bikes we got them. Albeit that we couldn't get the stabilisers on. Hubby spends Christmas day running up and down the street holding onto bike seats for dear life, because 5 and 6 year olds don't understand the meaning of "please go slowly". Mum stayed til the day after Boxing day. When she got me a nice, shiny new monitor for my computer (lovely flat screen). New year was nice. Spent it at home. Our neighbour's son, who is now really good friends with the hubby, came round and we all got a bit drunk listening to music. Then we all went out in the street to watch the fireworks go off.
January 2008 Got the Internet, TV and a phone line. From the same company that wanted to charge. For no cost. The same little guy I scared sorted us out. What a surprise that we didn't have to pay. Honestly, don't take crap from these people. Eventually they'll realise that in order to get their commission they need to make a sale, deposit or no...
Had a surveyor from the company that's been contracted to do the kitchen and bathroom come to visit. They're also rewiring. Which means that we need to move all the stuff we can't fit into the house anyway, out of the house before they come, or, at least shift enough of it so that we can put stuff in the centre of each room. Starting in the loft. They'll also cut a section of wall out in each room, which means we'll have sections of wallpaper missing. Some of which we no longer have extra of. They're also going to rip (their words) the entire kitchen out in order to rebuild it. Same with the bathroom. In essence, it will look lovely once it's done and we've re-decorated (yes, they give a re-decoration grant, but it's nowhere near enough to do the whole house again) but for over a month, my entire house is going to be a dust filled place which will look similar to a bomb site. Or Sunnydale after it was swallowed, if you're a Buffy fan.
Computer hacked.
Computer reformatted.
And here I am.
Hopefully for a while now.
Love you all. I really mean that.
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hesadevil- please keep the entries for the contest you ran at storyteller, and I'll get them judged in the next round, if that's ok. My email still isn't set up, so if you see this, just post a reply here, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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gen_storyteller for sending so many people to the site, and offering their support :)
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