Sunshine! largely content-free post

[juliet]

It is sunny; and the days are getting longer; and it is starting to feel like spring even if it is only February (things are budding, as well). Obviously this is almost certainly a Bad Sign, environmentally speaking, but it is making me cheerful today. Even if a somewhat stiff headwind did nearly blow me to a standstill on Westminster Bridge this morning.

I have been v lazy indeed today; but I think I have just solved one work-related problem, so not a total loss. Sadly not going to be able to make Zen Meditation tonight (because the timing, & my having been in work late this morning, prohibits dinner beforehand, and my stomach will prohibit waiting till after 9pm for dinner), but on the upside this gives me an unexpectedly free evening tonight for general quiet pottering, & I have been rather in need of such of late.

Other cheering thing: my eyebrow has not fallen off as yet, and the general reaction to the piercing seems to be "goodness, that is new, isn't it, I thought you must have had it for ages" which I am taking to imply that it looks like it should be there. (also it is blue! I like blue.)

Is it festival season yet? (ans: possibly not quite but there is a Little Green Planet party on Saturday which I am greatly looking forward to even if it is indoors)

How are all of your Mondays progressing?

Comments

[juliet]

Oh, yes, I remember all that :-(

I found I got most success from listing our requirements to estate agents & then either a) phoning them back regularly or b) asking them to contact me if they had anything relevant. This does lead to a certain number of phone calls in which they said things like "There's this lovely 1-bed flat in Surrey Quays" when I had specified 2-bed & walking distance from Bermondsey tube, but after you say "No, that's not what we're after" to a couple of such offers, they get the message & start sticking to the spec.

(it was exactly the same when buying, fwiw. I can only assume that a lot of people give a spec which they don't actually *mean*.)

Good luck, anyway!

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

I'm having that at the moment with rent (So, I remember you said you were interested in places with a max cost of X... how about this nice place going for X+10%?)