Boy were we overwhelmed!
See how we woke up after that first night (the mattresses were delivered after we chose our rooms – the power of editing!) in the front room with me yelling this is a “shithole”? Well I had only fallen asleep at 5am and by this time it was 6.30am. I spent most of the night sitting up in bed struggling to catch my breath. Seriously, I think I was having a panic attack. Amie got a fright because I could not control my emotions. Here also started the downfall of my crohns disease (long-time followers of me will know all about this). I spent a lot of that night running through that hallway and outside to the shared toilets. It was a scary night. I do briefly talk about it on page 23 of this week’s Woman’s Day.
This was also life changing for us as we had to get used to at least 30 people watching us for a whole 8 weeks! This was just as hard as the renovating in the beginning. The cameras always wanted to know what you were doing and how you were feeling…
Once the sun was up and we were up Amie and I set about calling 2 x builders. We had been given their names from friends of friends and didn’t know them at all.
No, we didn’t hire 12 builders! In fact, all of those men in that room were window, internal door and wardrobe men supplied to ALL of the contestants. It’s just that they all seemed to land in our room and wanted to give advice. Was hilarious! So in the end we only hired 1 builder (as you’ll see).
So we spent the next 2 days ripping the walls out. Our builder helped and then left us to it. We could do that part easily enough.
In this time, Amie and I realised our limitations. We never claimed to have any tradeskills so therefore, as 2 women we learnt very quickly that we had to ask for help and everyone was always willing to lend a hand. For example, Josh was so nice in offering to move that oven for us! He was sweet and as you’ll see, we do help each other when we can.
I can’t wait for you all to watch the first challenge episode! Yes, I cried when I met Shelley! IF I KNEW I WAS MEETING HER I WOULD HAVE DRESSED UP A BIT!!!!! Lol. She is as adorable and lovely in real life.
Anyway, today I am off to see Shelley here.
Enjoy the show tonight.
PS. You must use the word ‘inconspicuous’ more often as it really does make you sound smarter.
PPS. Please show your messages of support on The Block’s Facebook page. We need a little love over there as some people can get nasty! I wish I could stick my finger up at them!
PPPS. See A-M‘s post today. Loved it!
