Moving Day

Has almost arrived, we exchanged contracts yesterday and we get the keys tomorrow! Yippeee!

Our house no longer looks like a home though...

Our back bedroom/gym room looking very sorry without all our stuff in it..
Mike cooking when the kitchen was half packed... it's been chaos! Especially climbing over those boxes with my legs still totally dead from those burpees! We made a wall with them so Roxie couldn't get the the rabbit and guinea pigs.. it was nice to have all five of our pets in one room!
Tia has been really confused, but loving playing in the boxes! If I can figure out how I'll post one of the videos I took of her and Roxie when she was jumping out of the boxes and batting her!
This was the lounge yesterday...


We took Mike's step dad's van down to the new house twice full of boxes tonight and it now looks like this... much better... I can get to the kitchen without climbing over stuff!

Kitchen today, it's almost all packed, just the fridge, freezer, microwave, oven and a few daft bits left over now.. can move a bit easier too!
Bye bye house!
I can't believe how horrible it looks without our bits and pieces around. It's been getting progressively worse as we've packed more! The floors look worse than I remember when we did the house up just a year ago.. It was in a dreadful state we had to take about 7-8 layers of wallpaper off every wall, clean EVERYWHERE, paint every wall and ceiling and put down new floors, light fittings.. When people were looking round I said we would sell them the floors for £100, they cost us ten times that.

All the people who looked round were really happy with that and said they would definitely have them. Except one woman, who asked me 'what are you going to do if I don't pay you' I said I'll take them out and sell them else where. Annoyingly every single person who looked round the house wanted it and the letting agents gave it to her.. I rung her up and asked her if she wanted the floors 2 months ago and she said she did and that she would buy our shed too.. Yesterday I rung her up to arrange payment and she said I don't want to buy the floors anymore. She knows she's left us with no time to find a buyer.. She obviously thinks we're going to just leave them.. She's going to be disappointed.. We've taken them up and we've already given the laminates away to Mike's half sister and Mike's best friends mum is having the carpet. I'd rather give them away to family and friends than some cheap woman who's tried to get them off us for free.. Silly thing is if someone had got the house and said look you'll have to take them up because I really can't afford it I'd have left them.. She's been really underhand about it.. Oh well.. her loss.. £100 isn't life changing money and I'm happy the floors are going to people we care about who need them instead of her!

I have my theories that she's not going to turn up tomorrow to pay for the shed too in the hope we won't have time to dismantle it and take it with us... We do and we will! I wonder if I'm right... It's funny isn't it, sometimes you get feelings about people and I knew from the start she wasn't going to pay for them she was really not very nice when I was showing her round.. Then after the first phonecall when she said she wanted them and seemed nicer I thought oh Laura you were too quick to judge... Now I know I wasn't! Trust your instincts.. they're mostly right! Anyway, I've written far too much about that woman! Really it's worked out well 'cause we've been able to help family and friends!

I can't believe how busy these past few days have been.. I thought we were really close with packing but since exchanging contracts yesterday we have literally been doing stuff non-stop! We finally sat down at about 7pm tonight! Now we're both relaxing with Lush facemasks on... Mike took my picture and I looked like a man, then I took Mike's picture and he looked like a zombie, so you'll just have to imagine the face masks haha those pictures went straight in the trash! Can't relax for too long though, I have my push-ups to do! No rest for the wicked ;-)

edit: push-ups: done! 10, 12, 8, 8, max (20) ouchies!! How did I just do 20??? My arms just let me keep going! So pleased max is up, it really, really hurts now though, almost too shaky to type haha

Thank you all so much for the kind comments on my last post. We got some good news today, the damage to Mike's eye socket shouldn't cause him any further problems and doesn't need to be operated on (unless he wanted to for visual reasons but you really can't tell). That's a huge relief! The dopey boy forgot to ask the doctor about any implications to boxing though.. but he thinks the doc would have said if it was a problem.. I hope he's right! I'm not sure if we're going back at the moment I think the time he has to take off boxing will give us plenty of time to make a decision, hopefully things will come clear. We'll definitely continue the boxing training at home... Just need to find a spot for the bag!

Well I'm not sure when I'm next going to have internet access so I'll probably be gone for about a week :-( don't know what on earth I'm going to do in my free time! Hopefully the local library has internet access so I can catch up on blogs and blog.. Hope everyone has a great week next week.

Haltemprice 10k

This morning whilst we were walking Roxie I realised it was the day of the 10k we planned to run right back in July. We decided not to enter the race as I was supposed to be working today and you know that big thing I've been going on about for ages, well we thought that was going to get in the way too. Talking about that, I was really nervous to post it on the blog in case anything went wrong but even though things could still go wrong I need to tell you all! Mike and I have bought a house!! We're hoping to move asap. Especially with this no hot water debacle. Which we are still without, 11 days on.

I'll share pics of the house as soon as we're in, currently our place looks like a total mess. There are boxes everywhere and I'm running out of clothes! We're also trying to run our fridge/freezer/store cupboard stocks down and that's why I've been on about budgeting so much lately.. Did anyone guess what my cryptic ramblings were on about?

Here is the mess that is my house right now :-( Roll on move day!

Chaos!

So, back to the morning. We got home from our long walk at 10.20 freezing cold having been out since 8.45 and I checked the race details online. It started at 11, race entries on the day a pound extra... Pretty much told Mike we were doing it and phoned my dad to ask for a lift. We ran around getting our gear on, feeding Roxie and downing some water. As it happened we got there a few minutes too late to enter but the woman said to just run it and not go through the finish line. So my time is not official it's my garmin time but I'm taking that, it's the same as the official one, had I got an official time I would have come 183/295 overall and 45/113 :-)

To get to the start line we had to run up two flights of stairs to try and register, failed to register and then run maybe .2 miles to the start line. Talk about last minute!! I felt totally unprepared for this race as when I thought I wasn't going to be able to run it anymore I lost my motivation and my running suffered. Adding to that my garmin wouldn't find a satelite, even though I had got it to find one at home which normally works so I don't have any splits and I didn't have a clue what pace I was going at throughout the race as there were no mile markers only km markers so I couldn't even lap it! I think it actually kind of worked well for me though as I just went on feeling and not on numbers, as I so often do!

My overall time was 52.19 average pace 8.25, 36 seconds faster than I've run the distance before. I'm so happy with that! I'll definately do this race next year, and properly. It was a great course, lots of rolling hills but they weren't so bad, it also went right through the village I grew up in and I ran past my old primary school so that was cool! I'm really happy with my time.. Thinking maybe I should run without looking at the garmin more often.. I'd have to have it on my though, I love looking at the stats afterwards!

Hope you've all had a great weekend.. I'm leaving you with some pictures from our walk this morning, we do an extra long walk on Sundays and I love the secluded field we take Roxie to play on, it's so peaceful and it has horses. Sadly only one horse was out to play today though..

Bye for now!