Now the rest of my life can begin…

[almostwitty]

because the increasingly accurately-named shove_this_job has finally gotten permission from the glorious British government to move over and live with me in my West London palace for a very very long time.

After all the stressing of getting documents together for proof and all that, it did seem like a relatively easy process. Just the nail-biting wait – and we paid an extra $100 for an expediter to get an express service too.

Still, now I have three or so weeks to turn my bachelor West London pad into a place permanently fit for a Queen. so that means out with the old rotting food and the decade-old mattress, and in with a new one. Although she likes it soft and I like it hard (fnarr fnarr) so I guess this means we’ll have to compromise!

What else do I need, besides lots of new coathangers and Lush soaps?

Mirrored from almost witty.

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[actionreplay.livejournal.com]

A decent mirror with good lighting in the bathroom.

Extra disk space for the additional iTunes collection.

That's all I can think of.

I'm sure you will be off to Ikea shortly after she moves in with you anyway :).

[almostwitty]

I've actually been going around in circles wondering whether to:
- buy a NAS drive that plugs into the TV
- buy an additional generic hard drive that plugs into the PS3
- or try to watch some of the 500 GB of programmes that I have got on the existing hard drive to make room for her stuff!

Congrats!

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

New bedlinen and towels.

[skarlettfever.livejournal.com]

a lovely smelling candle for the bathroom, new pillows to go with the new mattress (but don't buy bed linens without her picking them out first), an iPod charging cord that's for UK plugs, an oyster card?
:)

[almostwitty]

During her last visit, she bought a boxload of Lush soaps for me as my birthday present. And has cunningly secreted them in various alcoves around the flat so every time I open up a cupboard door, some noxious smell of flavoured soap comes wafting up.

But I think I'm getting used to it.

[waltzingalong.livejournal.com]

Echoing what others said about mirror (bathroom and full length), towels, bedlinen...

... and approximately three billion toilet rolls. I don't know what happens to toilet rolls in our house but we go through them at an amazing rate.

[almostwitty]

Oh trust me, I am the KING of stocking up on toilet rolls. At one point, I had 36 toilet rolls and just had to stop.

[heyuwiththeface.livejournal.com]

congratulations!

i just arrived in australia after receiving permission from their government to stay. :)

i would say... chocolates for the pillows, and new pillows, and body lotions.

congrats!

[wylde-chylde99.livejournal.com]

soft blanket for the couch, personal tea/coffee mug, handsoap for the bathroom (hopefully you actually have this, unlike my boyfriend, who had no soap at all anywhere in the bathroom, just shampoo)

[heartsways.livejournal.com]

Nice shampoo and conditioner, not the store's own crap, mind!

Perhaps a few of her favourite things to eat, or drink? I buy special things in when I have a certain guest over from abroad. Depends on the country though, I suppose.

Oh...and congratulations!

[almostwitty]

Before she came on her last visit, I had two tubs of ice cream for emergency purposes (y'know, if I'm baking hot or had a bad day).

She wolfed them down in two days.

I have now reorganised my freezer drawer to have six ice cream tubs in anticipation of this. But I shouldn't really be encouraging her.

[heartsways.livejournal.com]

Well...ice cream doesn't have to be used just as "food", you know...

[almostwitty]

She's deliciously creamy enough as it is ;)

[heartsways.livejournal.com]

TMI! TMfreakin'I!

I was going to say "I hope you'll have fun" but that seems rather moot, given your current comment, heh.

[almostwitty]

You started it ;)

[heartsways.livejournal.com]

God, you're so right. Mea culpa. Although you know, it doesn't just have to be ice-cream...

Wait. That's going to lead to more confessions.

[almostwitty]

To be fair, I've never seen the point in wasting food on that sort of activity... although I do have a packet of frozen prawns in the freezer too...

[heartsways.livejournal.com]

Prawn Porn.

I have no idea what that would look like and don't want to.

[sentience.livejournal.com]

PORN.

[almostwitty]

The Internet is for porn.

[theta-g.livejournal.com]

Rock on, A.W.!

[brenda-k-a.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! How very cool for the both of you. No further suggestions for you, sounds like it's all been covered pretty well! :)

[anivair.livejournal.com]

Traci and I had the same mattress issue. Here's how I solved it: we got a mattress that was moderately firm 9that is, soft, but with good support, mine is a pillow top) and put a memory foam topper on it. Thanks to the foam and the pillow top she gets to sink into the bed, but thanks to the springs it's firm enough for me.

[moviegrrl.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!! :D
Enough crockery and cutlery for the two of you.
A MASSIVE clean up of your bathroom, which includes scrubbing the toilet bowl, you wouldn't believe how long it took me to get the bathroom to the standard I wanted when I moved in with Matt.
More shelving - we have nowhere near enough
Find out the basics she always has in the food cupboard, so that when she goes to cook, everything is there that she'd want.
(Sorry, girls aren't all about the cooking and cleaning, but I are fussy bugger)
Room for her clothes, another wardrobe if you've got the room, plus she'll need drawers too.

Think that's it...

(Oh and I need to send you links for a couple of wedding venues, did a HYUGE trawl of sites over the weekend, and got very depressed in the process!)

[http://users.livejournal.com/rinny_/]

Oh congrats :)

Do you have any plant life?
Thats one of the first things I bought when I moved in with my other half.

Also my full lenght mirror, thats amust for girls I think :p

[einochi.livejournal.com]

Aww congratulations both of you :D

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

Secret bachelor pad in the East End somewhere.

Er...

That's it.

Congrats.

[almostwitty]

Ssssshhhhh....

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

So happy for you both! You need a bottle of champagne and two glasses!

[almostwitty]

I've got some champagne circa 2002... (when I got it I think)

[kristenred.livejournal.com]

This is GREAT news. I am so glad.

mazel tov!

[shoshannad.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy for you guys :)

When I moved in with Marc I bought welcome mats and rugs to place by the front door, new towels that matched and had no holes, matching dishes, and fabric softener.

I think if you just clear out half of the storage space in the place and give her your charge card, it should work :) Seriously, she might want to pick out this stuff herself, it is her home now too. And hire a cleaning woman to scrub the place down, its just easier.

DO NOT buy her shampoo and conditioner, every woman has her own preferences.

Re: mazel tov!

[almostwitty]

I'm loathe to hire a cleaning woman, since that seems soooo middle-class and rather du jour for media Londoners... but I may have to resort to that...

Re: mazel tov!

[(Anonymous)]

Since when is having a clean toilet middle class? We're all hard working people and have other things on which to expend our energy. Pour some cash back into the community and have someone give the place a good scrub... Even if it is just this once. The person/people will be more efficient and do a better job than you - would you hire a writer to clean your kitchen floor??

Re: mazel tov!

[almostwitty]

Well, no but writing isn't a basic skill for independent living. Cleaning is. ;)