Yes, yes I know, late again, but I have a really good reason this time - I thought it was Tuesday! I realised in the early hours of this morning that it had in fact been Wednesday but it was a bit late by then!
It's been a nice few days, lots of youtubing - both recording and viewing as well as lots of work on the house. I planted some seeds a couple of weeks ago, I wasn't sure they would grow as the packets were quite a few years out of date but today there were a load of sprouts! Well chuffed, I was. The garden is starting to look like an actual garden, the only problem is that it's so windy everything dries out in about five minutes. Mum and I have taken to sleeping in shifts to water everything every hour.
The living room is coming along very nicely, we've nearly finished painting it - it's taken about 40 fucking coats which is why it's taking so long - but we're determined to get it done this weekend and actually unpack a few books. I've almost forgotten what they look like! It'll be nice to have a little more space in Spare Oom as well, now that the exercise bike is in there.
Oh yes, speaking of which - I got an exercise bike! I kept calling off on going to the gym because I had to have an induction and my anxiety has been really spiking lately so I couldn't deal with it then mum had the brilliant idea of getting a bike or a treadmill on gumtree and voila! It's a proper spin bike and I looked it up online out of curiosity and it's about £300 new, I couldn't believe it! The only downside is even on the very lowest setting I'm only just tall enough to use it so I don't know how anybody shorter than me is supposed to manage.
Well, another downside is that it's reminded me how awful my knees are as I have to stop pedalling every few seconds to click them back into place! Delightful. Though of course, that's a downside with my frail old man body, not the bike itself.
Doesn't everyone work out in full make-up?
I think my youtubing is going pretty well, I'm really getting the hang of recording and editing now so hopefully people are enjoying watching the end product. Episode 2 is now available and I plan to release a new episode every Monday from now on - with perhaps extra episodes in the week if I get too excited!
Anyway, yesterday I had a lovely relaxing second Tuesday where I got my hair cut, gave the oven an acid bath, gave one living room wall a final coat and started work on the bathroom. Previous owners, in their infinite wisdom, decided that grouting between the tiles was just too much work and so have basically grouted the entire wall. So all of that needs to come off because there are perfectly good tiles lurking beneath.
My new hairdressers is basically at the end of the street in someone's garage. It's a lot nicer than I just made it sound though, and run by a very nice lady who gave me a great cut in less than half the time of my old place!
Before
I also spent a good two hours scooping out oven goop from the cleaner that I left in overnight. Super yum. I'm pretty sure that I'm the first person to clean this oven and I've only been here a month. I mean, to be fair, I'm pretty sure I'm the first person to clean most of this place... Not to say that everything is really gross and uninhabitable, it's just that the dust has been sitting so long it's basically solidified. I noticed today that even some of the walls are dusty. Really weird!
After
It's been a bit of a Day on twitter today, I have to admit. Piers Morgan and India Willoughby have both gone a bit... well Piers Morgan-y. He even sent his minions after someone I follow, so that's fun! You can read my thoughts on the topic here. Obviously, being trans, this whole non-binary 'discussion' is something very close to my heart and I find myself talking about it more and more as we come under the spotlight of scrutiny.
Anyway, I'm gonna keep it short and sweet this week as I seem to be struggling with the writing of things today. Hopefully next week it's a little more fluid!
Xx
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