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posted by [personal profile] tadorna at 10:40pm on 09/06/2009 under , ,
Been feeling a bit low ever since the move. Not sure if it's really connected, and if so it's probably just the unsettledness and the slight sense of anticlimax that comes after you've been working towards something. Most likely it's just, you know, one of those things. Anyway, I can't really be bothered to move or do anything. Ever.

I do like the house though. :) I'm just finding it difficult to get excited about anything. I have, basically, of late lost all my mirth. Which, as Hamlet said, like really sucks. I have taken to my bed. Fair enough really, as it's bedtime.

I just deleted a bunch of stuff about shower curtains, because it was just so incredibly boring.

Good things though! I was going to get a dining table and chairs delivered from Argos and pay about 200 quid for them and then have the pleasure of putting them together myself. But just before I did this, the church down the road put a table and four chairs outside on the pavement with a note saying £25 for the lot. They smell rather of old furniture at the mo, but I think they might be quite nice once sanded down and recovered etc. And even when I don't ever get around to doing that, they're still not at all bad.

I thought i had another good thing, but I've forgotten it. Never mind.

I took some pictures when I moved in, but most of them are just of cardboard boxes and chaos. Here are a few that aren't terrible though:



All the furniture has moved since I took this:



Nice bathroom. :)



Poppies in my garden:



Now this is cool. My house has a sealed room! There is no door, and you can only see in via this window:



And when you look in, this is what you see:



It's a little pantry. With no door. Quite obviously containing an evil spirit of some kind.

And that is all for now.
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posted by [identity profile] vensre.livejournal.com at 10:00pm on 09/06/2009
Very much liking those photos. They make me want to visit you. :D

I'm fascinated by your sealed room. Can the window be opened?
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:38pm on 09/06/2009
You'd be very welcome! :)

No, the window is sealed shut. It's so mysterious!
 
posted by [identity profile] lobelia321.livejournal.com at 10:11pm on 09/06/2009
omg. What is that sealed room? Are you going to break down the window? And have Famous Five type adventures in there?

Your new place is beautiful! I really like the wooden floors and the airiness.

We once moved and I became very depressed. The new place was in the area we'd always dreamed of living in (in Berlin) but somehow, when life was going well, there were no more excuses and the fact that life was shit was clearly down to me. Result: gloom and deep depression.

Invite me over! Behavioural cognitive therapy dictates: you must eat six times a day (main meals plus snacks inbetween and a goodnight snack) and you must do one of these five things every day for at least 1/2 an hour per activity: relax, something pleasurable, social, physical, intellectual.

So I can be your social!
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:44pm on 09/06/2009
Ah, it's just an ordinary terraced house, really, but quite a nice one. :)

I invite you, I invite you! :) That BCT law sounds very sensible - I will try to stick to it. If nothing else, I can probably manage the six meals.
 
posted by [identity profile] angelislington.livejournal.com at 10:15pm on 09/06/2009
Ooooh your new place looks fabulous!
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:46pm on 09/06/2009
Thank you! I did rather cherry-pick the photos - maybe I should post all the crummy-looking ones now in the interests of balance...
 
posted by [identity profile] justwolf.livejournal.com at 10:45pm on 09/06/2009
The sealed room is fascinating!

And your poppies are lovely.

I'm sorry you're feeling low. :(
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:49pm on 09/06/2009
Thank you! :)

Ah, I'm not too bad really. Good times will be here again, etc. Hope you feel better soon too -- if not I will come round and give the world a good kicking for you.
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posted by [personal profile] lazulus at 04:50am on 10/06/2009
The sealed room is bizarre! But the rest of the house looks peachey. I love the bathroom. :)

Moving is horribly stressful and unsettling and hopefully things will settle down very soon.
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 08:27am on 10/06/2009
Yeah, I'm sure they will. :) You'll have to come and see it too, of course - hopefully when I've vanquished the damn ants. (They've just discovered how nice it is my food cupboard.)
 
posted by [identity profile] shira.livejournal.com at 05:15am on 10/06/2009
Depressed after moving? You sound like me. Only my new place is nothing compared to yours. That house seems very nice.
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 08:29am on 10/06/2009
Thank you! It is nice, and I'm very lucky to have it. The rest is just... stupid brain stuff. Damn brains. I think I might have mine replaced with something more useful.
 
posted by [identity profile] shira.livejournal.com at 01:35pm on 10/06/2009
Let me know if you find someplace doing it, with an affordable payment plan. I'll do it, too.
 
posted by [identity profile] justeeyore.livejournal.com at 10:45am on 10/06/2009
It looks a very nice house. For a sealed room, it looks very clean in there. Have you tried saying Open Sesame? Think of all the junk you could keep in there.....
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:35pm on 19/07/2009
Terribly late reply, but thank you! :) I'd love to get into the room, but it remains impregnable. I obviously haven't learnt the right password yet.
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posted by [personal profile] coeur_de_noir at 11:01am on 10/06/2009
Pretty house! I like those bathroom tiles. This is how old I am, that bathroom tiles can move me x
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:34pm on 19/07/2009
Thank you! She says a month and a half later. (I am old too, it's ok. I fear I may be about to get into gardening).
 
posted by [identity profile] purple-hazed.livejournal.com at 12:57pm on 10/06/2009
If I had a sealed pantry I

1)would ask the landlord loads of questions about it (being aware that he would lie his socks off about the body that was found there with a cheese wire round the neck)

2) Break in.

3) Unpack.

Post-moving blues is normal, it's the calm after all the excitement. I didn't appreciate my place until I stormed out of my parent's house and went home for the first time.
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:33pm on 19/07/2009
Hello, I'm going back to old comments and feeling terribly guilty that I never replied to them, through pure laziness and badness.

(I am now properly appreciating my house, btw.) ;)
 
posted by [identity profile] purple-hazed.livejournal.com at 10:50pm on 19/07/2009
I was wondering about your house!! I found a note I made myself to make 'furniture' icons and it reminded me!!

Did you find out about the sealed room??!!
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:54pm on 19/07/2009
I'm going to post some more pics soon, but I'd really better have a clean up first!

We worked out that they sealed the room up (it's a little pantry really) so they could get the fitted kitchen in more easily - there would have been a door in the way as it was. How dull! I still prefer the evil spirit/portal to another world explanations.
 
posted by [identity profile] purple-hazed.livejournal.com at 07:09pm on 21/07/2009
Well, that is a sensible answer at least!! I was hoping for some drama but never mind!!!
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posted by [identity profile] lapin-agile.livejournal.com at 02:15pm on 10/06/2009
The space is great! I love the hardwood floors and the glimpse of layout and furnishings. Beautiful!

And I love the idea of a sealed room! Does it flank the kitchen? Have they built a wall of cupboards that blocked that room's entry? How odd. Perhaps you are right that they've walled in a spirit--trapped the poltergeist, most likely! ;)

I'm sorry you're feeling low. I do think that sometimes follows finishing a big task like moving. I hope it sorts itself out soon.
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:32pm on 19/07/2009
HI! I like to reply to comments about a month after they've arrived on my journal. It allows them to mature, you know.

We worked out why they sealed off the room, btw. It was so they could get a fitted kitchen in. How dull.
 
posted by [identity profile] shirecreature.livejournal.com at 02:25pm on 10/06/2009
I foresee you writing a story about a mystery room...

The flat looks great, good luck with it!

I also foresee that your mirth will return...and if you would be kind enough to send me your new address you might even qualify for a housewarming package. :)
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:30pm on 19/07/2009
Ack - really sorry I didn't reply to this, I don't know where my head's at these days. Such a kind thought, too. wrt address - yes! I collected a bunch of addresses earlier in the year, and then they promptly all disappeared in a computer disaster, so I need to do some address collecting/swapping very soon. I'll get back to you (promise)!
 
posted by [identity profile] elouisa.livejournal.com at 04:26pm on 10/06/2009
Firstly, DEVIL DUCK! on the bath. Mightily approved by me. :)

And secondly, how cool is the mystery sealed room! You have to do some investigation and find out why, it has to be done.
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:30pm on 19/07/2009
Hello, I'm replying to old comments. I am a bad person and must be punished. Sigh...
 
posted by [identity profile] lugna-vatten.livejournal.com at 02:48pm on 14/06/2009
Oops, capitals. Oh well.

It looks very nice, the house. And with the mystery room, too. A portal to another world, perhaps?

And it's not Will's old house, by the way.

I get those anti-climaxes all the time about stuff. The low after the high takes some dealing with sometimes.
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:27pm on 19/07/2009
I never said thank you, so sorry! I know, I realised it wasn't Will's old house when I got here - I can see into the garden of it though!

Been interested to read about your new job - I don't wonder it's taking a bit of getting used to, it's such a huge change for you! I've no doubt it'll go on to be a really good thing for you though. :)
 
posted by [identity profile] sandpipersummer.livejournal.com at 04:53pm on 19/07/2009
Hello! I've read a few fics and your house is great, especially the sekrit room. :) I've friended you, hope that's okay. Not much happening over my way at the moment, I think I'm waiting till I'm 40, and then my life can start...
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:25pm on 19/07/2009
Hello - very nice to meet you, and thanks for the kind comments. :) I'm afraid things aren't very exciting round these parts lately, but you're very welcome! (I'm glad to see you're not put off by my habit of only posting to apologise for not posting enough. I'm determined my next post will not contain a single apology!) ;)

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