A bit run down

[ailbhe]

I was just looking at the mess in the kitchen, dining room, rest of the ground floor, etc, and I thought "I wonder if I have B12 deficiency like my friend does?" and seriosuly considered that for a minute before I remembered -

I'm thirty-one weeks pregnant, I have two active home-educated children, and we all have a very nasty cold with a stomach thing as a special bonus offer.

That might be why I don't feel up to tackling the mess, then, perhaps.

However, I am bound and determined to tackle the stairs, because I want to reboot the printer and maybe measure the square metres we live in, because I have no actual idea and a few people on my friendlist have mentioned theirs in the past couple of months and I'm curious.

Edit: (7.25x4) + (2.5x4) twice is 78sqm which is 839.5 sq feet, apparently. It's a little rough, because it doesn't include the airspace where the stairs go up, or the bay window, but they about cancel each other out, I think.

Edit again: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8201900.stm indicates that we actually have a fraction more floorspace than average in a new build, though the five chimney breasts probably eat that up.

Comments

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

You are amazing for coping so well with all of those demands on your energy.

Ours is ca. 60 square metres, but having the loft and the garden makes ALL the difference. The garden is an extra room on a good day, and the loft means that we don't have to use any of our floor area for storage at all.

[ailbhe]

Another thing that makes a difference is not being awake there most of most days - we had to *seriously* cut down on our clutter when we started being *in the house* more, even when there were only two of us. Especially the clutter we, um, didn't like and didn't use.

Without the loft, having babies would be a lot more expensive, because we have nowhere else to put the Stuff between times. Also things like suitcases, and clothes one child has outgrown but the other hasn't grown into, etc.

EDIT: and I really, really hope that this summer we'll get to the stage of the garden being an extra room, because last summer and most of the autumn/winter/spring it was a miserable pit and utterly unusable. Urgh.

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

I am still in the glad-eyed phase where I believe I will always devote as much care and attention to my garden as I do know, and it will never descend into an unusable pit. Hah.

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

We have a storage space, which is very helpful for baby stuff (though it turns out we haven't used the moses basket at all this time - need to freegle it, I think, ditto cot) but causes arguments as we disagree about what should stay there and I get frustrated as I can't get there easily.