Oh my freaking God, never knew or realised that having your own house would mean, you actually have to work on and in it.
It's been like four weeks now since I am working in my new house. Painting the walls, stripping a kitchen, sanding the stairs. The big chores are done now, but most of the little ones take too much time to get done. Hanging up lamps, creating almost a walk-in-closet-room. And yet I can't get help to get the feeling that I'm not doing anything at all. I don't see the progress, I just see unfinished rooms.
The living room for instance, all the lamps are hanging, the couch, diner table and some chairs are standing in it. But they are not in the right place, for the simple reason, the wooden floor needs work. It needs to be reshaped a little, sanded and oiled up. I hired, or contracted a professional, but in the two weeks I was having a working vacation, he didn't have time in his agenda to do our floor. So now we have to wait untill the second weekend of november before we can actually finish the living room. And I don't like to go to the next job without finishing the previous one. But that is all I'm doing now. I start with one thing untill I can't go further and go the a new one. It sucks big time for a orderly perfectionist like me. I like to do things in order, at my job or at home. This way I can keep chaos out of my life, I like structure and if I have found it, I like having it. My life doesn't have to be overorganised, but some structure and organisation helps me to think clearly at the tasks at hand. I do hope the floors get done in the three days, the professional said he would need.
It's the same with our bedroom, only that will take longer to finish. We have ordered some nice curtains, that needs to be made in the right length. The lady just called me last week telling me the curtains aren't in stock now and she hoped they would be ready at the beginning of december. I can't wait that long, but to cancel the order and go to another shop would propably mean that we would have to wait even longer to get them. So this means that we will have to sleep on the floor in the sparebedroom untill our own is finished. It's a good thing the new house has three bedrooms and we don't need them all as bedrooms. Like I said, one room is almost turned into a walk-in closet. The other room will be the computer / toy / cd collection room. But for now we have transformed it into our sleeping room.
The one thing I really dislike is the fact that our turtles have to be in their cleaning tank. Usually they are in their big aquarium, with lots of space to swim around, a medium sized board with a light above to sunbathe in and small stones on the bottom to chew on (at least one eats the stones too). When we have to clean this one, we put them in s small plastic box. It takes us usually an hour to clean it, so it doesn't mind that they are in a small box. But now, they are living in the small box for about a week now. They don't like it, we don't like it, but it's the only sollution we have untill the living room is completely done.
I will be glad when all this is over and I can relax at my couch which is standing in the right place, looking at my happy swimming turtles in their natural aquarium and when it's time to go to bed I can go to my bedroom and close the curtains for the night and lay myself down in my bed dreaming about all the work we have put in the house to make it our own.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Do you have the time?
Do you have the time to listen to me wine? About everything and nothing at all? I am one of those melodramatic fools, neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it.
Just some words from a Greenday song. And well, I'm going to wine about everything and nothing at all. Just because I can. And there is no stopping me. I'm just a bit fed up with some certain people in the world, some close to me, and some I don't even personally know. First up is of course president Bush, how can a man like him rise to so much power and have no singular braincell in his head? Can it be that the American can't see a dumbass when they see one on television almost every night? Or am I just not well informed about who he really is? This morning I heard the news telling that Bush said that the American troops in Iraq might be reduced. He couldn't tell how many and when. So why say such a thing if you can't answer the obvious questions that will follow such an annoucement. Luckily for my well being he will resign his time in the Oval office very soon, and can't be re-elected, thank god. Only I haven't read much about the candidates that are to follow in his footsteps. I heard somethings about Hillary Clinton as the main Democratic candidate. Don't know if this is true, and well I don't know if she will get the votes because she is the best person for the job, or because all the Americans still feel pitty for for what Bill did to her. The last would of course the total wrong reason to vote for someone. But the Americans reputation doesn't really convince me that they always vote according to the right reason, otherwise why would they have elected Bush for a second term?
Second is a guy much closer to me, I actually know him. He went to university, graduated in some degree and has been working for a longer time than me. But still I find him reacting like a rookie on the workfloor. He is new, well not really new, to the company, he works here now for almost a year. And well in that year I think he caused more problems by acting as a social retard than I would have imagined a real retard would do. Some retarded people I know show more experience in working and acting accordingly than he does. And he isn´t a retard, I think he is just plain stupid.
Companies hires us to do some work they can´t handle themselves. They expect us to do quality work and always keep a sharp eye on us with all that we do. So we have to keep our voices down, don´t get too enthusiastic or too negative about some of the work we have to do. But he... doesn´t really seems to notice that the people from the companies that hire us aren´t really our co-workers. Of course we talk to them, make small conversations, maybe smoke some with them. You know, the socialising thing. But he pushes that a bit too much. And always in a negative attitude. When things changes, he always complains about the changes, without knowing the changes will fall out good or bad. And he tells his grievances (wether true or false) to the people from those companies. They don´t need to hear the shit my company sometimes produces. That is internal, but apparently he doesn´t see it that way, even if our leader tells us not to say anything about it. Once he gets going, he goes on and on how things aren´t well organised. But never have I heard him saying the sollutions to the ill-organised things. And apparently I scare him. He thinks I control him in some sort of way. I don´t have any control over nobody. How he got the idea, I don´t know. I have tried to talk it out of his head, but he is too stupid to realise it. So I just let him believe I control him, and sometimes use that to entertain myself. You gotta have fun sometimes at work, might as well laugh at a colleguea.
Okay so there aren´t many persons I want to wine about, please thank me for it, otherwise you wouldn´t have been finished reading now.
Just some words from a Greenday song. And well, I'm going to wine about everything and nothing at all. Just because I can. And there is no stopping me. I'm just a bit fed up with some certain people in the world, some close to me, and some I don't even personally know. First up is of course president Bush, how can a man like him rise to so much power and have no singular braincell in his head? Can it be that the American can't see a dumbass when they see one on television almost every night? Or am I just not well informed about who he really is? This morning I heard the news telling that Bush said that the American troops in Iraq might be reduced. He couldn't tell how many and when. So why say such a thing if you can't answer the obvious questions that will follow such an annoucement. Luckily for my well being he will resign his time in the Oval office very soon, and can't be re-elected, thank god. Only I haven't read much about the candidates that are to follow in his footsteps. I heard somethings about Hillary Clinton as the main Democratic candidate. Don't know if this is true, and well I don't know if she will get the votes because she is the best person for the job, or because all the Americans still feel pitty for for what Bill did to her. The last would of course the total wrong reason to vote for someone. But the Americans reputation doesn't really convince me that they always vote according to the right reason, otherwise why would they have elected Bush for a second term?
Second is a guy much closer to me, I actually know him. He went to university, graduated in some degree and has been working for a longer time than me. But still I find him reacting like a rookie on the workfloor. He is new, well not really new, to the company, he works here now for almost a year. And well in that year I think he caused more problems by acting as a social retard than I would have imagined a real retard would do. Some retarded people I know show more experience in working and acting accordingly than he does. And he isn´t a retard, I think he is just plain stupid.
Companies hires us to do some work they can´t handle themselves. They expect us to do quality work and always keep a sharp eye on us with all that we do. So we have to keep our voices down, don´t get too enthusiastic or too negative about some of the work we have to do. But he... doesn´t really seems to notice that the people from the companies that hire us aren´t really our co-workers. Of course we talk to them, make small conversations, maybe smoke some with them. You know, the socialising thing. But he pushes that a bit too much. And always in a negative attitude. When things changes, he always complains about the changes, without knowing the changes will fall out good or bad. And he tells his grievances (wether true or false) to the people from those companies. They don´t need to hear the shit my company sometimes produces. That is internal, but apparently he doesn´t see it that way, even if our leader tells us not to say anything about it. Once he gets going, he goes on and on how things aren´t well organised. But never have I heard him saying the sollutions to the ill-organised things. And apparently I scare him. He thinks I control him in some sort of way. I don´t have any control over nobody. How he got the idea, I don´t know. I have tried to talk it out of his head, but he is too stupid to realise it. So I just let him believe I control him, and sometimes use that to entertain myself. You gotta have fun sometimes at work, might as well laugh at a colleguea.
Okay so there aren´t many persons I want to wine about, please thank me for it, otherwise you wouldn´t have been finished reading now.
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