Cleaning up and moving in
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
All the free time of the last two weekends has been pretty much fully consumed with moving into our new kitchen. [Final handover was Monday after they got through the last items on the snag-list.]
It’s been a multi-faceted operation, firstly cleaning every nook and cranny to get rid of the builders’ dust, then transferring all the previous kitchen cupboard contents into their new homes, and lastly, going through the remaining “kitchen” boxes that had come from South Africa. Hoorah! Out came our wedding crockery and the Kenwood mixers.
This is just the sort of undertaking which could very well have taken Tom and me the better part of two months to work through, except that we had a deadline: my sister and her fiancé are coming to stay this week — from Tuesday to Saturday to be precise, so we couldn’t procrastinate anywhere near as much as we wanted to. 
As a result, this weekend in particular has been extremely hectic. (This is the first time I’ve sat down at my PC since Thursday.) Hard to say if it’s the pregnancy that’s making it worse, but I’m definitely feeling rather footsore and weary now, for the second day in a row. Ready for a nice hot bath.
But on the plus side, we’ve once again got a functioning guest room, currently about 95% ready, tomorrow night will see the finishing touches and I’ve got 4 days off this week 
to spend with Kristy and Wayne before they fly home to SA on Saturday.
