Jake and Sarah

YEEEEEEEEEEEEY!

Sarah picked them up before as we completed this morning. Don't know much yet as she's going to ring me at 20:00 to tell me how it felt.

I'm working 12 hours tomorrow so won't be able to go in until Sunday or Monday night. Better order those blinds!

It's a pretty amazing feeling.

Our first home.

Well it's bonfire night and I've got no bonfires to go to or really want to as Sarah's working late again and I don't like going to places without her on my arm...

and it's warm inside ...

I finished work at 4pm, spent 1 hour making a Openoffice presentation for tomorrow when I'm part of the big university showcase of the "non-academic" departments... We will look the best!

then home and I was asked by Sarah to sort out our storage boxes as (quote unquote)

SARAH: "Every box we have is full of wires of some sort"
JAKE: " Cables, Darling. They are cables."

hee hee...

so I've took 4 boxes and made them into one with the help of two bin bags and 2 cans of Stella.

The one box has this in it: (approx)

10 CAT 5 cables with RJ45 connectors- various lengths and colours
3 SCART leads
4 Phone leads
8 Broadband Microfilters
3 pairs of phono cables including a full composite set
1 optical cable
1 HDMI cable
1 million iPod cables/ accessories/ docks/ chargers
1 Airport Express
1 SONY Remote Commander (don't ask)
20 metres of co-ax cable (aerial)
4 short bits of co ax with connectors
4 connectors for co ax
3 splitters of co ax
1 DMX to XLR converter
1 SCART splitter
1 Wind up radio
1 portable aerial

and some people say I hoard shit!

Today I actually spoke to our solicitor about our completion TOMORROW! She was very calm and not excited at all and by this time tomorrow we should be the proud owners of our new flat.

I won't believe it until the keys are in my hand.

EXCITING!

I hope everyone is having a good bonfire night and gets home safe and sound...

have I mentioned the fact I'm trying to grow a tashe with Rob and Brad for Movember?

anyway click here to help if you want to help me raise some more money for prostate cancer awareness ...

other than that we're still all packing mad here with the flat looking like the proverbial scud hit it...

apart from the wank solicitor never being available to talk (we're paying her for what???) we have signed the deeds to the new house and Sarah should courier it off tomorrow to arrive Friday when we SHOULD complete...

bunch of fucking cowboys in my opinion but hey ho ...

talk to me in a week... if we get the broadband connected...

lie down? who needs a lie down?

pish

OK OK I know it's not a perfect rendition of the song but hey ...

today has been very strange. I awoke at 01:30 ish when Sarah got back home and came to bed. "with a jump" Sarah said...

I have no recollection as I was asleep.

Got up at 07:40 and went and picked up one of my techies as she crashed her car the day earlier and she's on the way in.

Got to work at 09:30 but couldn't start as with the European Work Time Directive I have to have an 11 hour break between shifts... so I started at 10:00...

easy day, all sorted, done dusted, gave Techie life back home...

pizza from Sainsbury's and then blokes turn up and take away my lovely SONY Trinitron TV that cost me £680 six years ago and today went for the bargain price of £45! And I was lucky to get that...

now just the fridge, tumble dryer, cooker and washer to sell in a week...

now tomorrow I was in early but I managed to get some time to do the rota so I'm not in until 13:30 which means Sarah and I might actually see each other...

it's pretty lonely in here without her....

I started with a post about Madeleine McCann and how it's such a shame she hasn't been found ...

then I deleted that and had one about our past lives and how they make us what we are ...

then I started this ...

today I had an easy time, long but easy. I started at 11:00 and finished at 23:00 but the last film I showed I even got someone else to press play due to circumstances beyond my control ...

now come home and off to bed soon though Sarah's not back yet from her first night shift... she should be back in about an hour (now 00:40) - I'm up at 7am so off to bed.

now that I've selfishly (well it is my blog) mentioned what I've done here's a picture to maybe jog someone's memory to help us find her and bring her back to the UK

No pumpkins anywhere so we resorted to putting the picture from the last post as my wallpaper and turning off to auto shut down for my Macbook Pro

here's what my desktop now looks like...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

as seen here

1. Are you superstitious?
No

2. Are you attending or hosting a halloween party this year?
No

3. What's your favourite scary movie?
The Japanese Ring is pretty scary. Poltergeist when it first came out too

4. Trick or Treat?
Trick

5. The best Halloween costume is...?
I once worked in a nightclub when I was 16-18 and I went to our Halloween do (I was working) as a Freddy Krueger victim. Spent a fortune on expensive fake blood and latex for the scars... took 3 days to get the blood off my face and arms though!

Yesterday I stood in our new flat and measured up all the windows for blinds and discussed with our flooring bloke what we wanted.

We're going for a coffee strand woven bamboo floor throughout (apart from bathrooms) and hopefully it'll be finished BEFORE we move in.

click here for example

apart from the joy of standing in our brand new fully fitted flat I felt the pain of packing all our gear away - again.

so i went and paid the movers (£555 down from £624) - thank fuck for all that overtime, picked up the boxes and tape
and got down to some serious packing.

I've now packed:

Books - 6 boxes
CD's - 1 box - thank the lord for iTunes!
DVD's - 3 boxes - NOT the Blu Rays yet
NAD amp
NAD CD player
Kef Speakers x 2 ( for above )
Wii Fit - used it twice

next to pack today are:

Wii
Xbox 360
Etrex GPS
Wii, Xbox 360 and DS games
My stones - before you ask, I have a habit of picking up stones from beaches I've been to, some small and some large and over the last 15 years I've got quite a selection. Sarah's letting me keep them for the garden

so I can't procrastinate any longer on here ...

then later we're going shopping for the week and getting our big fat pumpkin

until then here's a pic of our pumpkin 3 years ago

Hope everyone has a great day messing around with pumpkins and ghosts and sweets and having general fun. I will be as I have a day off!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

we will be getting a pumpkin later today ... pictures to follow ...

:-)

Today I was in early and worked really hard all day until 17:00... then I moved to the cinema and had the dubious glory of getting overtime pressing play on a DVD for a film...

not my fault they don't do a 35ml version of it

now I'm home with the pitiful total of 3 Stella in the fridge!

pish...

tomorrow I'm not in until 21:30 so I'm meeting our new Best Friend - a handyman who's willing to put our bamboo floor down , in the new flat, for £100 per day.

I'm meeting him at our new flat as I'm measuring up the blinds anyway...

sounds like a deal, though ...

this bloody postal strike may fuck up our completion date as no fucking mail is being delivered- thanks Royal Mail- not the workers on strike but the twats like Royal Mail's CEO who gets 1.25 million pound a year to fuck our post up...

if Royal Mail don't cock it up we should be completing next Friday 6th November ...

moving in 12th November- I managed to get the removal cost down from £624 to £555 by just sending an email

anyway 2 Stella left and there's still some life in me...