Each time the subject of staying over at the flat on weekends comes up, I have to endure a round of snide remarks before it pushes thru (IF it pushes thru, that is). The last time we tried to do a stayover, it didn't push thru, but I still had to endure snide remarks. As I've said before, Big & I may be married in the eyes of the law, but obviously not in the eyes of the in-law.
Anyway, ranting aside, we managed to do a stayover last weekend. The initial plan was to start on Thursday night since it was a long weekend. But I was (literally) running media for the event on Thursday night, and dead tired. Then we wanted to start Friday but I spent the entire afternoon gawking over Peranakan jewellery, and that lasted too long, so we didn't either. Even when we did finally stay over Saturday night, we spent most of Saturday advising the parents on which laptop to buy, and rushing to another parental event in the evening. So, actually, we didn't spend very much time at the flat.
Still, it was very nice to stay over, and to have a place of our own. It does seem like a good hideout from our daily annoyances & frustrations, and the rest of the world. Neither of us had much problems adapting to the smaller bathroom, except that we need clothes hooks in there, and we would much prefer the water pressure to be higher. We slept without the aircon or the fan, and it was nice & cool. In fact, the living room can be get windy at night with the land breeze coming from that direction. Of cos, there's all the extra noise we had to deal with - someone upstairs using the toilet/taking a bath, kids shouting in the early morning and etc. But that's to be expected living in such close quarters with everyone else.
Big shoved the oven into its rightful place Sun morning, with some minimal help from me. And we discovered our thermal flask only keeps water warm, not hot. And that we really really do need those hanging basket things for the bathroom for the bath stuff.
Anyway, ranting aside, we managed to do a stayover last weekend. The initial plan was to start on Thursday night since it was a long weekend. But I was (literally) running media for the event on Thursday night, and dead tired. Then we wanted to start Friday but I spent the entire afternoon gawking over Peranakan jewellery, and that lasted too long, so we didn't either. Even when we did finally stay over Saturday night, we spent most of Saturday advising the parents on which laptop to buy, and rushing to another parental event in the evening. So, actually, we didn't spend very much time at the flat.
Still, it was very nice to stay over, and to have a place of our own. It does seem like a good hideout from our daily annoyances & frustrations, and the rest of the world. Neither of us had much problems adapting to the smaller bathroom, except that we need clothes hooks in there, and we would much prefer the water pressure to be higher. We slept without the aircon or the fan, and it was nice & cool. In fact, the living room can be get windy at night with the land breeze coming from that direction. Of cos, there's all the extra noise we had to deal with - someone upstairs using the toilet/taking a bath, kids shouting in the early morning and etc. But that's to be expected living in such close quarters with everyone else.
Big shoved the oven into its rightful place Sun morning, with some minimal help from me. And we discovered our thermal flask only keeps water warm, not hot. And that we really really do need those hanging basket things for the bathroom for the bath stuff. AND we have a flea market every Sunday nearby!
Would be a good idea to stay over every weekend. As I said, itz a really good hideout, and becos we don't have to waste time travelling (from my house to his or vice versa), we managed to get a lot more stuff done. The only issue is how much I can tolerate the snide comments.
Would be a good idea to stay over every weekend. As I said, itz a really good hideout, and becos we don't have to waste time travelling (from my house to his or vice versa), we managed to get a lot more stuff done. The only issue is how much I can tolerate the snide comments.
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