Welcome to the Fuzzy Orange Clone house. or FOC for short.

[sarah_orange]

so, whinging aside, what's the rub in Orangeland?

Moved into the new house on Saturday. have failed to unpack anything apart from the cookbooks and my bedroom entertainments. (oi! dirty! I mean my seperate system, cds, vinyl, dvd player and telly) I got a bit wrapped up in playing with my records and even inflicted abba and tangerine dream on poor daevid :) I did try and make up for it by playing Jordan Minnesota at him but I'm not sure the shouts of "fuck daddy" really helped wash away the swedes.

Never realised how many clothes I have given I wear the same old shit again and again. 3 really big boxes, 3 drawers, 2 holdalls and a laundry basket full. plus the socks, pants, and tights bags, the pile I chucked and the bag I've put to one side for the multiblack goth swap.

The new house feels nice - my new room is over half as big again as the old one and I'm attempting to contain my computer clutter in a walk in cupboard (henceforth known as orange's caven in homage to oracle's caven) off the spare room (henceforth known as the ginger suite due to eddy virtually living there) The boiler isn't working so no heating or hot water but a chap should be in looking at it today. the kitchen is fine (apart from the bloody electric cooker but I'm vaguely considering other options there) and it's really nice having one on the same floor as the living room - it feels easier to pop into and cook/clean. could do with a table or some more storage or something, and a the booze cupboard needs furnishing correctly. the back alley is perfect for fuzzy's bike as it's locked at the top and he can make his bike invisible behind the dustbins. living room is *much* smaller than the old one and quite cramped but I'm working on cosy :) bathroom is utterly spartan and needs a mirror, some towel storage and some shelving. thankfully the shower is electric so we can use that despite the boiler ills.

am kinda failing to unpack at the mo as the living room needs tweaking and some shelves putting up - I was kinda hoping to get stuff done this weekend but the old house is going to eat my time instead. I need a trip to ikea sometime next week if anyone has a decent sized car and would like to join me (there will be petrol money! woo!) - they're open til 10! I need to get the 4*4 version of the cupboard we have in the club's cloakroom for my bedroom plus a whole host of other shite for the house. (no more tupperware! no more saucepans!)

Comments

[sturmed.livejournal.com]

yay to settling in new house or foc

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

:) thanks for your help! we shall have to have a gentle housewarming party at some point soon

[sturmed.livejournal.com]

a gentle housewarming party sounds very civilised and nice, can i bring a partner?

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

wont be for a while yet but yes I imagine so :D

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

bathroom is utterly spartan and needs a mirror, some towel storage and some shelving

And some curtains / posters for the (lack of) privacy windows

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

I put up a couple of pages from an old mucha calendar to the offending internal window to allow me to shower without blinding al and fuzzy.

[bikerfaerie.livejournal.com]

So you got rid of the "viewing pannel" for the shower then? ;o)

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

Viewing panel....Hmm.

*goes hunting for score cards*

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

Aye....you could have someones eye out with those =;-)

[angelkitty101.livejournal.com]

I WILL come and visit! I promise! I could probably pop up on a Sat. Will have to plot!

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

I shall have to rename the ginger suite into the brummie suite :D

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. Its wider/longer and the bed fits better !

[angelkitty101.livejournal.com]

Could do, we should get a plaque for the door!

[lostlorelei.livejournal.com]

Glad you're happy in new house, hope stuff gets sorted soon with boiler & whatnot! xx

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

you shall have to pop round at somepoint ms ra :)

[lostlorelei.livejournal.com]

Would be cool, you should come see kittens too when you less full of busy :) xx

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

they'll be cattens before I see them at this rate!

[lostlorelei.livejournal.com]

True, though I have bought wings for them for when they're old & ugly ;)

[hieroglyphe.livejournal.com]

The new place sounds pretty good overall :-)

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

yup - it's so much more well maintained than my old place :P

[gillywoo.livejournal.com]

re: multi black goth swap. Are we ok to do next sunday? I know it's day after wendyhouse, but I wanted to do some pimping and haven't had the time!

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

yeah that would be better for me as it means I won't be ripping up carpets before hand - I'll just check with K

[gillywoo.livejournal.com]

cool. I thought it might be easier for you too.

[daevid.livejournal.com]

Yars a mirror in the bathroom would be a bonus... it was strange a). having a shower knowing that you could be peep'ed upon at any time and b). shaving by touch and the reflection from the tap *lol*

And it is strange but that first Abba track you played to me was not so bad.... i liked it even o_O

The place though is lovely :D

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

which one? visitors?

[daevid.livejournal.com]

Yes that would be the one :)

I think you followed that up with Voulez Vous... Did make me think of my all time fave Erasure track Blue Savannah when you mentioned the link :D

[blondelass.livejournal.com]

bathroom is utterly spartan and needs a mirror

I have a spare mirror!

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

we have mirrors but they're mostly at the old place :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_pyromancer_/]

Can prob help you with the Ikea thing (assuming that "bloody big van" is sufficiently "decent-sized car like" for the purpose). :-) I could do with looking round Ikea anyway, I need a new sugar bowl (the catch died on the one I've got).

New House of Orange sounds cool. Small livimng room? 42" flat screen telly on one wall, hi-fi, surround sound, nice chairs - and absolutely nothing else. Kill anyone who so much as leaves a chocolate bar lying arround.

Computer area sounds cool - try LED fairy lights for illumination, I think you've seen my Mission Control?

[cloneboy.livejournal.com]

Orange, with a minimilist living room? yeah right. where would all the tat go?

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

yeah we're talking piano, leather chesterfields, persian rug, taxidermy, more dvds that you could shake a stick at.

[cloneboy.livejournal.com]

and shaking a stick at them is futile, they dont play fetch

[http://users.livejournal.com/_pyromancer_/]

Persian rug? Chesterfield? Taxidermy? That lot doesn't want to be in a house, you want to be flying it through through the skies of Leeds, commuting to the club in luxury on a chesterfield-carrying magic carpet with taxidermix decor (and perhaps a few psudo-Egyptian slave-girls draped about the place for added style).

:-)

[damien-mocata.livejournal.com]

Woo for new house goodness :D

[metzkass.livejournal.com]

Yay for housie goodness!