birthday

It’s SO’s birthday today – he turned 35. It seems like just a couple of months ago that he was having a crisis over turning 30, and now here we are.  Middleaged, but happy

I got him some transition lens sunglasses for his mountain bike riding, three shirts for work, some pyjama pants, and some socks.  Not very exciting, but he loved them, especially the sunnies and the work shirts.  We had a very lazy morning, and then were taken out to lunch by SO’s dad and stepmum, which was lovely.  Of course it was a long slow three-course meal, so by the time we got home it was nearly 5pm.

We were at Mum’s place on Friday night, celebrating SO’s birthday with my side of the family.  After dinner, Mum and J informed us that they’re getting married!!  My brother A and I then made lots of jokes about how relieved we were that Mum would now be J’s problem.  (Actually, I don’t think we were joking.)  So that was lovely.  They’ll have a little celebration lunch in a couple of weeks’ time, with us and J’s kids (and their kids) so just the immediate family.  I volunteered to bring a garden salad and potato dish, which made Mum happy as she knows how much I hate cooking.

And what of the reno, I hear you ask?  Well, after much to-ing and fro-ing, it’s finished.  We had a couple of last minute disasters - the couch we bought didn’t fit into the unit, through either door, or the window, so we needed to buy new couches on a Sunday.  $1300 later, it was done.  Also, one of the beds was missing a bit, so on Monday morning of last week we bought another bed frame.  So it didn’t go quite as smoothly as it could have, but all in all we are SO glad it’s finished, and how it’s turned out.

So, some photos.  Here’s one of the toilet beforehand.  Notice the substantial plaster cracking around the hot water system.

And a close up of the original basin and cabinet.  Observe the condition of the shelving above the cabinet – mmmmm, nice.

The toilet afterwards:

And the cabinet area after:

Not bad, huh?  We’re pretty happy with the outcome.  The rest of the unit looks equally good, but I’m not going to put a huge amount of photos up as they can take far to long to load.

Yes, so it’s been a busy but happy couple of weeks.  I’m now going to fall into bed and catch up on some of the sleep I’ve been sorely missing.