Categories: decisions, housework, house
Date: 31 January 2010 17:42:07
and I am now only fit for bath, supper, and sleep!
In my new bedroom.
The upstairs of my little house is unusual. To get to the bathroom, you have to go through what was described to me as the second bedroom. The main bedroom is the only room in the house it's possible to close the door on, and not have visitors see it, as you come straight from street to front room, straight through to the kitchen, and up the stairs which lead off the kitchen to the upstairs rooms.
There is a little outhouse kind of offshoot from the kitchen, which houses a toilet, and a little area for a washing machine, and the gardening equipment. (Um, best we don't discuss the fact I now have a garden, and gardening equipment, and no clue whatsoever.) Oh, and the recycling boxes and rubbish bags. I really should get the council to bring me a wheelie bin.
Anyway, when I moved in I dutifully put myself into the main bedroom for sleeping purposes, and made the second bedroom a study space. Now I don't have to keep everything I possess in one room, my bedroom became the tidiest room in the house! The living room isn't bad, to be fair, and I've always been clean if not that tidy in a kitchen, but my work-type space.... oh dear. And, it's way too cold to expect visitors to go to what in effect is an outside toilet!
So, in between dealing with the toughest week ever at work, and my growing dissatisfaction with the room I was sleeping in, and the lack of tidiness in the places people could see, it occurred to me that I didn't actually mind people walking through my tidy bedroom to get to the bathroom, but I was minding them walking through a seriously messy work area. Which wasn't actually working as a work area either.
So, today I've moved everything work and music related into the main bedroom, and created a more conducive working space. Means I can have my keyboard out more of the time, too. I've left the wardrobe in that room, mostly because I couldn't face moving it, then probably moving it back because I couldn't get it through to my new bedroom.
If I have overnight visitors, I will still put them in the second bedroom, and move myself back into the main bedroom! Mostly so they can have better access to the bathroom, and I am less likely to fall down the stairs in the middle of the night on my way to the other toilet than a visitor is. But also because I don't see why I should inflict my mess on anyone but me.
So, I'm going to make my supper and eat, pack my work bag, have a bath and go to bed!! Cos, I'm very tired now.