Evening
So I went to bed by myself last night, it does suck a bit going to bed by myself but i get on with it. I did drop off fairly quickly. But woke up at 3am aching which sucked. I went to get up for pain killers and Jack was somehow awake so he got up with me which was good of him. We weren't up too long and went back to bed. I woke up at 8:20am and got my Ozwald out.
This morning I had breakfast by myself, again
honestly I had more company back at mum's house!
I gave up waiting for jack to wake up so I did some dancing whilst he was still in bed. Its so strange but I struggle to remember some of the dances i have done hundreds of times. But I still had 20mins of dancing which got me sweaty. I had a shower and then Jack woke up, it was 9:50am by this point.
I said to him "we have that bathroom meeting at 10:30am, so you best be functioning by then"
I went on my laptop whilst he sorted himself out. Then we had the bathroom meeting
it was just about an hour and a half long which was an hour too long for my liking. I struggled to sit and was really aching. Not only that my head was very loud as I was getting more and more annoyed with this designer. I had warned Jack that there is a lot of arrogance in the design industry and he is also a salesman. God he must have thought we were real idiots. telling us he was doing us a deal. He then said "we are transparent, theres no pressure, were not like that" however. he asked for the full payment TODAY i said "i need to go away and think about this and also talk it over with jack and my parents" to which he came back with "how long do you need?" rude. he also said "this offer is only available today. no pressure. really? it really got my back up. Thinking i am an idiot.
not only that but our final quote was £7500....what happened to 'most bathrooms are between £5000-£7000' jesus christ. I wasn not paying that! our bathroom is tiny!!! I could understand if we had chosen the top end stuff and had a giant bathroom but thats not the case.
so as soon as the call ended I got up and went for pain killers
jack who had been fine the whole meeting unlike me who was being a difficult customer, said "I dont think thats too bad, means you can have a bath and we dont have to do anything"
i was almost too shocked for words
yes it meant we didnt have to source a plumper, electrician, tiler etc but £7500!? really!?
how could he be such an idiot!?
i said "no jack just no. That guy was an arse hole thinking he was doing us a favour. makes me actually sick. i am not giving them my business or money"
we had lunch but I felt really wound up by it all.
I grabbed my winter gear and jack was like "where you off to?" i said "just going to see mum" he said "want me to come?" i said "no its fine" i took off. At this point all i wanted was my sanctuary, my single bed. my safety net.
i headed off home and mum was surprised to see me. I told her how livid i was with everything. she agreed about how much salesmen suck and that they are just doing a job but i wasnt gonna pay that. She said "matt is suppose to be coming over to look at our bathroom today" i was like "oh ok then" dad had already said he would give us their appointment with matt. and literally 10mins after mum told me matt was coming did matt turn up. He assessed my parents bathroom and agreed to come look at my bathroom so i got my shoes on once again and came home with my parents and matt.
Jack wasnt expecting any of this, nether was i. so matt talked to me what could be done. and i told him what the guy at wickes had said and matt was like "no thats not possible" cus some stuff we didnt have the right boiler for or our electrics would need to be changed. I told matt what i wanted whilst dad was there and jack and mum sat talking in the living room. jack was a bit stressed out by it all to be honest. Matt said he could do all we wanted. That I needed to give him guidance on what i wanted and to pick tiles. that easy. he would do the rest! whats more is that he is starting on tuesday!!!!! flipping tuesday!!! none of this waiting 16 week business with wickes. and he said to pay when he is finished!
amazing. hes done mum and dad's upstairs bathroom so i trust him with my house key and such as he is the son of dad's friend. so yeah all a bit strange how it is has worked out.
i have no idea what it is gonna cost us. but matt is trust worthy, anal, OCD, and likes to get things right, hes also available now.
They all left and I went for a walk with mum, in the snow I might add, to go put flowers on granny's grave. I then started to walk home with mum. I told her I have been stressing about school. My heart goes out of the rhythm when I think too much about school. I have also scratched my legs to the point of bleeding and they were doing so well as well T^T
she said "if you need to go to the doctors for more time off Jo then thats what you need to do"
im just scared of being ill again. So I was tearing up a bit.
I got home and didnt bother going through to jack really. I let him come to me. He hasnt done anything all day. I have been sorting everything out. I talked to him about stuff tho and got upset. Its just school I am stressing about really.
we had dinner and then I cut Jack's hair for him, after my stomach had subsided that it
i said to him "what does it look like if you shave your beard without the guard?" he said "i havent dont that in years, I just look younger" we looked at each other he said "do you want me to do it?" i said "i dont know, im scared! but then it will grow back in days" we also decided cutting his hair and cutting his beard short was a good shout considering we wouldnt have a bathroom for a couple of weeks.
whilst he showered I sat with my Ozwald in the living room
after Oz had 45mins running around I took him home and me and jack looked online at tiles. something that is hard to do but all the tile shops are closed due to us being in tier 4 so some shops are not open. however we did find a tile we both really liked. but it is not a colour we were originally gonna go for! its like purple/red but we both like it! so i emailed it across to matt to see if he thinks were making a mistake or if we can pull this off!
i might do a bit of drawing now then jack says he will watch inuyasha with me, actually spending some time with me! i am honoured.
tomorrow I am up cus I might do some dancing, shower and then at 9:15am dad is coming over with an electrician to come look at our fuse box as that needs changing before tuesday! our fuse box is 40 years old and isnt safe basically. then me and jack are doing our shop for the week. i havent got anything planned from there. i would be going round tile shops but we cant.
so i will probably find something to keep myself busy with so I am not worrying about school
i cant believe that this time next week we could have a very different looking bathroom!
