An unreal week

I have had the most amazing week. I can attribute that to many things. I started the week badly with spraining my ankle - and from there it went sharply uphill. As I hobbled with assistance out of the gym, I had no shortage of sympathy and assistance. Alicia, whom I have known for many years, and Di a new friend, both offered to drive me home. (Which in hindsight I should have accepted, because I felt quite ill when I got home.......probably from the pain). I had ice, help and advice on how to look after myself. On Thursday I saw Lu and had my nails done. Alicia came in and saw that my foot was swelling while I was sitting there, she took off my shoe and made me put my foot up. Di, brought out some cream and rubbed some into my foot..........I felt like a queen. Anyone walking past would have wondered who on earth I was that I was receiving so much attention.

During the week, as you know I put a deposit on an amazing range of kitchen items. My parents took me down to the store, so I could do that as driving was still a bit painful. I am so lucky that I have my parents around, and that they are close by too. We always get on so well, and when I work so much, I don't see them near enough, so with my sore ankle, it meant we spent some time together which was great. I realized that another reason why the week was so great, because I have all three children at school, and I didn't work the whole week, so I felt organized and not like I was running around chasing my tail. I had more patience for my kidlets and felt very content with my lot in life.........

Yesterday I decided to attempt a pump class, as you don't really need your feet other than for standing on. I did lunges, but without the weights, and then stopped a bit before ...............I hate lunges!!! Afterwards Alicia and I went to coffee. Three hours later we decided to check the time!! We hadn't moved, hadn't had lunch, just had a ball. We ordered a lunch which we shared and then I came home after 3pm. Time to organize my clothes off the line, have a shower and then go to scrapbooking. I had to shopsit last night for about 4 hours. I had a great night, Al was there and Kerrie was there too..... I had lots to chat about.

I have a lot more to add later. I am considering a few things....

Kitchen Update

We got a late call last night, that our finance was conditional. Apparently they had already done the driveby evaluation, and the rest of the process is just a formality........so........today I went and paid the rest of the deposit on the kitchen goodies, as I am 99.9% confident that all will be okay. Plus Kleenmaid has said that if for some reason the money doesn't go through, then we get a full discount. If I hadn't paid now, I would have missed out on $1800 savings, which is a huge amount. I will include some pictures of what we have bought..........Can you tell I am over the moon, very impressed and incredibly excited. I have always, always, always wanted a large kitchen with scmick appliances........and I never ever thought that I would actually get it.

I had another run through on all the appliances and am really impressed with all the functions on everything, I can't decide which appliance I am more excited about, the dishwasher, or the oven. The oven and the really awesome rangehood, are bonuses.........I never expected to get top quality of those, because I knew how expensive they are.

Deb, the manager at Kleenmaid, made me a divine coffee, from one of their machines and then just took her time with me, I am so impressed with the service. She knew my name, and was very, very helpful........

I had a brief chat with a gf on msn this afternoon, and her Kleenmaid oven died, and, instead of having it fixed, (without a quote) she was given an oven from a friend who was remodelling her kitchen. She is not happy with the 'new' oven at all and is sorely missing her Kleenmaid one and she is sorry she never had the repair quoted on. She said the difference in quality is amazing......

Appliances

Well..............

I did it, I put a deposit on our new Kleenmaid appliances. Not only are we getting the dishwasher, but we are buying the stove and rangehood as well............ Spending quite a bit more than we had planned - but I feel happy and content about our decision. I was happy with the service when I walked into the store. The showroom is fantastic. The manager of the store served me, and even though I was only interested in a dishwasher she told me about a fantastic deal, that if you bought the oven and rangehood you would get the dishwasher half price! In the car on the way home I thought that after my intial thoughts of it not being manageable, I decided that if we wanted to do it we could!! I told Peter about it, he was inititally reluctant, but after thought has decided it was the right thing to do. I feel that we are planning on staying here for a long, long time, and I want quality products. If I can afford them now then I think it's worth it. This is our first house, a house we never thougth we would own, and I think we owe it to ourselves to get the best we can possibly afford. I am so happy with the quality of the goods, and the customer service is fantastic.

I am very happy with our decision.

Now if only I could say the same about Homeside Lending...............nearly three weeks on and I still don't have a definite answer yet about our finance. The mortgage broker assures me there is no problem, but I would like to know for sure. Kleenmaid would even refund our deposit if for some reason the money didn't come through.......

Injured

I am so mad at myself. Just when my fitness regime was going well and my fitness levels were increasing - I had to go and badly sprain my ankle. I started the Taebox class yesterday morning, my foot stuck on the carpet, because I didn't lift it high enough as we were travelling across the floor and I went head over heels.........must have looked like a lead weight rolling across the floor. Today it's a little better. I can put weight on it, but can't twist, turn, crouch or do anything with my foot, like push things aside etc. This morning I woke up and my other leg is quite sore too, from doing all the work. I stood and cooked last night, on one leg. My main worry is how long it will be before I can get back to the gym. I am really disappointed about that. Everyone at the gym was fantastic, they took such great care of me. I have only been going there for about 2 months and I had offers of lifts and help with hobbling around, ice packs and comfort. They are a great bunch of people, the other class mates and the girl who owns it.

I am off to the Kleenmaid sale today. I can't buy anything as yet, because the finance still hasn't been approved, but I can research and see if I can afford their dishwashers. Maybe the sale will still be on by the time the money is approved. I should have heard yesterday, but the bank is dragging their heels. I think when you are not borrowing several hundred thousand dollars they aren't really interested.........