Day 735

Day 735...

A Tuesday once more and another full day in work.

I have ahead of me three more full days in work which is not my normal contracted hours but at the moment the hours are needed to help transition my role. So today it was another full day of taking my deputy through some of the work that makes up my job. And today it was the ever so exciting (sarcasm here!) and very necessary calculation of fees and the creation of invoices.

It took us a full day to work through everything and yet again re-iterated to me just how adept I have become at these various tasks over the years and simply 'get on and do' without giving much thought to what goes into getting the job done. 

A lot of my work is kind of 'rinse and repeat' and we have decided that the word of today was 'plagiarise'. Because I have been doing this job for a lot of years there are many, many occasions where I simply refer back to previous iterations and plagiarise my own work to create a more up to date and relevant version.

Arriving home I found that Ikea had delivered our new sofa bed and that the coffee was ready and waiting. I did a little more work online as well as deal with a couple of my own jobs before taking a few minutes, with a second cup of coffee, on my jigsaw; almost complete now!

It was then time to head down the gym, but before we did that we had to relocate the new sofa bed from our hallway to our upstairs bedroom...it was a nice warm-up prior to the gym session. With a little brute force and ingenuity we managed to get it upstairs much easier than I had anticipated and it now sits very nicely in the room...

And that was Tuesday, see you tomorrow.
xx

Day 734

Day 734...

We had a plan for this Monday and it involved Ikea!

But first we had to take the mattress that we'd rolled up yesterday to our local recycling centre. With that done and an empty boot we headed over to Ikea.

The plan was to check out the sofa bed we'd seen online as well as looking at various storage solutions and cupboards. First the sofa bed; a little smaller than we'd thought but it was smart and easy to convert from a sofa to a bed and will fit into the room with ease - win!

Second the storage solution. We have a lot of arts and crafts material that are currently living in some clear plastic Ikea boxes and what we needed to find were cupboards, or similar, that these boxes would fit into. So as we walked around we found the same boxes that we have and tried them out in various cupboards and storage units to see where they fitted best. It confirmed that some of the storage we looked at online yesterday was not quite big enough for them but then we found a cupboard that worked surprisingly well. More ideas to take away with us for our planning.

Having settled on the sofa bed we set off to find it in the warehouse section to see what size the packaged version was. Well, we looked at it and tried to imagine it in the back of our car and I don't think either of us thought it would fit. But, after speaking with a store colleague we were told to buy it, try it in the car and if it didn't fit to speak with customer services to arrange a delivery. And sure enough that was exactly what happened. We now have it scheduled for delivery some time tomorrow.

Back home it was time for more planning of our room and more 'SketchUp' designing using the dimensions of the new cupboard that we'd found while exploring Ikea. Thankfully lunchtime came around and gave us a break from planning!

Mid-afternoon we headed into Derby as I'd got a beauty appointment and it was an excuse to partake in a coffee and yet more discussions on the plans for the upstairs room! And when we arrived home guess what we did? Yep, more discussions, more ideas and more 'SketchUp' designs!

We think we may have arrived at a potential solution that actually involves using kitchen units and kitchen worktop. We will be able to have an extensive L-shaped work surface, with plenty of cupboard space, even making best use of what would have been a dead corner space. The worktop would be deep enough, and sturdy enough, to house a 3D printer for Simon as well as being robust enough for whatever crafts we decide to pursue. I think this means another trip to Ikea next Monday to check out kitchen cabinets!

And before we knew it the afternoon had disappeared. So while Simon took 45 minutes on the exercise bike I took the time to calm my mind with a little 'jigsawing'...and relax!

OK, I think that is it for today so I will see you tomorrow.
xx