December? Already?!
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kareinaThis week hasn't seen as much progress on the moving in front as I might have liked--Monday night was Nyckleharpa class, so we didn't have time in the evening to do anything, but we were both inspired when we got home and stayed up till 02:00 unpacking, cleaning and organizing stuff in the shop.
Tuesday evening was choir, so the plan was to head from work to the apartment to do a bit of cleaning there before choir. He managed to fully enact this plan, but I wound up working a bit later than I should have done, and so only had enough time to clean the tops of the kitchen cabinets and the shelves in the upper cabinets. Next time we head that way we will need to get the lower cupboards. He managed to put all the doors back on their hinges, vacuum and mop the rest of the apartment. Not so much to do there, but we have the place the the end of December, so there is plenty of time left to go back and finish it up. This time we took with us most of the lights for the ceiling.
Unlike most places I have ever lived, in Sweden it is normal for apartments to come with no lighting at all, just wires sticking out of the ceiling to which you can attach your own lights. The upstairs of this house also came with no lights, but downstairs mostly had lights. We have been making do with a few portable lamps at the house, moving them from one room to the other, but that gets old, fast. Therefore we fetched some of the lights from the apartment, and bought a few more, so now we are mostly set. Still need one more over the kitchen table, and one in the hallway, but those will be covered when we fetch the last of the lights from the apartment, and we don't *need* them yet.
Wednesday we bought the aforesaid lights and put them up, Thursday we managed to start organizing the downstairs "Theater" (because "living room" isn't pretentious enough), and covered the big window there with house insulation--it was single pain glass and let in way, way too much cold, and who needs daylight in a room with a projector and screen, anyway?
Friday afternoon I managed a small adventure. I have been walking to and from Uni by a fairly direct path along a road, but on Friday I decided to see if I could find a trail through the forest for a more scenic walk. The google maps satellite image makes it look like there may be one. I managed to find a trail, a nice broad one. I was so absorbed in just enjoying the walk that I didn't notice when the trail swung in a broad arc back the direction I had come from. However, when I saw a side path heading up a hill I decided to look at the map in my phone and see if it would be a better option. When I opened the phone and saw the blinking blue light showing were I was and saw how it moved when I did I realized that continuing forward would take me back towards uni, so instead I went over the hill, past all the beautiful rock on top, past the nicely set up fire pit for doing singalongs, and then cut back down the hill to pick up the trail I had followed in to the forest, then exited it on the road I normally walk and went on home. My normal walk is just over 4 km, and adding the extra loop made it just over 5 km, but it was a fun addition to the trip. I think I now know where I should have turned to catch the other trail that aims more directly towards my neighborhood than going by the road, but it will have to await another nice day when I feel adventurous to give it a try.
Friday evening we went shopping again and this time bought electrical supplies so that we could hook up the stereo equipment in the theater, and so that we can move the big, high powered, electrical outlet to the other side of the shop, where the equipment that will actually need it resides. Then he worked on attaching wires to stereo equipment, while I cleaned residual sticky stuff from the boards of the bookshelf--when I shipped the paperback shelves from Australia I used packing tape to bundle the shelves together for shipping, and when it arrived in Italy I just turned them sticky side down and put books on the other side. But now we are building a whole new frame for the paperback shelves--one that actually reaches from floor to ceiling in this house, and if we are going to that much effort it is time to clean up the shelves themselves, too.
This morning we did normal domestic chores (laundry, vacuuming, baking saffron rolls) before his mother and sister and her two daughters came over for a visit. They loved the house, the girls loved playing with the toys and musical instruments. After they left we went for a short walk in the forest in the dwindling evening light and were home by 14:34. Now he is resting while I type this, and this evening we are hoping to actually build those bookshelves. I really do want to be completely moved in before a full month of home ownership has passed, and it is still looking possible, though tight, since we don't really have any time available tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning we need to be at the local movie theater at 08:30, in costume, to entertain the crowd waiting to purchase their tickets for the Hobbit (sales start at 09:00). In exchange for the SCA being there in costume for this we get free tickets to see the movie. I think it will be a fun morning. In the afternoon we have a choir performance, and in the evening is the normal Sunday evening dance class, so that really only leaves today for shelf building. Next weekend in the housewarming party...
Tuesday evening was choir, so the plan was to head from work to the apartment to do a bit of cleaning there before choir. He managed to fully enact this plan, but I wound up working a bit later than I should have done, and so only had enough time to clean the tops of the kitchen cabinets and the shelves in the upper cabinets. Next time we head that way we will need to get the lower cupboards. He managed to put all the doors back on their hinges, vacuum and mop the rest of the apartment. Not so much to do there, but we have the place the the end of December, so there is plenty of time left to go back and finish it up. This time we took with us most of the lights for the ceiling.
Unlike most places I have ever lived, in Sweden it is normal for apartments to come with no lighting at all, just wires sticking out of the ceiling to which you can attach your own lights. The upstairs of this house also came with no lights, but downstairs mostly had lights. We have been making do with a few portable lamps at the house, moving them from one room to the other, but that gets old, fast. Therefore we fetched some of the lights from the apartment, and bought a few more, so now we are mostly set. Still need one more over the kitchen table, and one in the hallway, but those will be covered when we fetch the last of the lights from the apartment, and we don't *need* them yet.
Wednesday we bought the aforesaid lights and put them up, Thursday we managed to start organizing the downstairs "Theater" (because "living room" isn't pretentious enough), and covered the big window there with house insulation--it was single pain glass and let in way, way too much cold, and who needs daylight in a room with a projector and screen, anyway?
Friday afternoon I managed a small adventure. I have been walking to and from Uni by a fairly direct path along a road, but on Friday I decided to see if I could find a trail through the forest for a more scenic walk. The google maps satellite image makes it look like there may be one. I managed to find a trail, a nice broad one. I was so absorbed in just enjoying the walk that I didn't notice when the trail swung in a broad arc back the direction I had come from. However, when I saw a side path heading up a hill I decided to look at the map in my phone and see if it would be a better option. When I opened the phone and saw the blinking blue light showing were I was and saw how it moved when I did I realized that continuing forward would take me back towards uni, so instead I went over the hill, past all the beautiful rock on top, past the nicely set up fire pit for doing singalongs, and then cut back down the hill to pick up the trail I had followed in to the forest, then exited it on the road I normally walk and went on home. My normal walk is just over 4 km, and adding the extra loop made it just over 5 km, but it was a fun addition to the trip. I think I now know where I should have turned to catch the other trail that aims more directly towards my neighborhood than going by the road, but it will have to await another nice day when I feel adventurous to give it a try.
Friday evening we went shopping again and this time bought electrical supplies so that we could hook up the stereo equipment in the theater, and so that we can move the big, high powered, electrical outlet to the other side of the shop, where the equipment that will actually need it resides. Then he worked on attaching wires to stereo equipment, while I cleaned residual sticky stuff from the boards of the bookshelf--when I shipped the paperback shelves from Australia I used packing tape to bundle the shelves together for shipping, and when it arrived in Italy I just turned them sticky side down and put books on the other side. But now we are building a whole new frame for the paperback shelves--one that actually reaches from floor to ceiling in this house, and if we are going to that much effort it is time to clean up the shelves themselves, too.
This morning we did normal domestic chores (laundry, vacuuming, baking saffron rolls) before his mother and sister and her two daughters came over for a visit. They loved the house, the girls loved playing with the toys and musical instruments. After they left we went for a short walk in the forest in the dwindling evening light and were home by 14:34. Now he is resting while I type this, and this evening we are hoping to actually build those bookshelves. I really do want to be completely moved in before a full month of home ownership has passed, and it is still looking possible, though tight, since we don't really have any time available tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning we need to be at the local movie theater at 08:30, in costume, to entertain the crowd waiting to purchase their tickets for the Hobbit (sales start at 09:00). In exchange for the SCA being there in costume for this we get free tickets to see the movie. I think it will be a fun morning. In the afternoon we have a choir performance, and in the evening is the normal Sunday evening dance class, so that really only leaves today for shelf building. Next weekend in the housewarming party...
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Date: 2012-12-01 04:25 pm (UTC)When I was house-hunting back a year and a half ago, one of the places I looked at had a room converted into a mini-theater, with stepped levels and reclining theater seats and everything. If I were the sort of person who regularly had friends over to watch movies, it would have been marvelous. As it was, my thought was "what a terrible waste of a potential sewing room". :)
It sounds fancier than it is
Date: 2012-12-02 05:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-02 12:43 pm (UTC)