i cant believe it’s august already

“You mean we’ve only got 5 months left till the end of the year?” – my exact reaction when spider pointed it out to me yesterday. Whatever happened to the 7 months? How how how now? There are TONS of things to do, TONS of things to be completed, before we embark on our huge project next year. And there’s still the house to do up.

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Our neighbour across the driveway served their notice way before their lease expired, and held a gar.age sale yesterday to sell off their humungous collection of items. Being the nosey cheapo neighbours that we were, spider and me had already ‘choped’ quite a few of their items way before they even went on sale. Yes we’re kiasu like that. So anyways, yesterday was the day when we had to pay up and lug the items back to our house. And boy the house was turned to a dreadful mess, not that it wasn’t messy enough to begin with.

The neighbour was amused. She asked if we enjoyed decorating, and we sheepishly said that we’ve wanted to do that since day one but never got the time. “today is as good a time as any to start, since your house is now a mess” – said she in a straight face, though I swore I could hear the note of amusement in her voice.

But she’s right of cos. Now’s as good a time as any. The big mess totally revved us up. We were awake till 2am this morning moving things around the house. For one, our corridor’s much cleaner and less cluttered. The bbq grill is now neatly placed just beside our newly acquired cupboard, which now houses some of our shoes, soil, fertilizer, helmets, gardening shears, and charcoal. And there are now just 2 shoe racks outside, when previously there were 5. We’ve removed the plant-less pots with the dried-up soil (note to self: get going on yr planting already!), and have introduced 2 more additions to our VERY MODEST collection of plants, again courtesy of the gara.ge sale.

The inside of the house is another story. We have more furniture than we have space. we’ve tried moving things around, but it’s still work-in-progress. The space where our dining table used to be has now been converted to our tv-cum-lounging space. And it’s reasonably done up now, with 3/7 of our newly-acquired sofa set placed nicely there. but of course this would mean that we’d have to put the dining set at the place where the tv used to be, and the old sofa is still there. add to that the other 4/7 of the sofa set which still has no space to call its own, and the coffee table that comes along with the set, and you can imagine the mess the house is in right now.

Like I said, it’s work-in-progress. A headache-inducing, back-breaking, muscle-toning, work-in-progress. But hey, at least I get my exercise.

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It’s amazing how similar our mental models are.
Name the first flower that comes to your mind –chances are, it’ll be rose.
Name a piece of furniture – chances are, it’ll either be a table, or chair, or bed.
And the waiting game entry has everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, asking “so so so, are you pregnant??”

Well, the waiting has ended. Alhamdulillah, I can breathe easy now.

And no dearies, I’m NOT pregnant. We’re not ready, and we’re not trying.
When we are, ready that is, we pray that God will see us worthy to be blessed with kids
And when we are, pregnant that is, we’ll definitely be sharing the good news with those who care :)