Lifes simple pleasures

We just went for a walk in the rain and it was beautiful. I played in the puddles and kissed my love under a tree as the thunder and lightning filled the skies, and lit the night.

Tonight I go to bed a happy girl.

People are fucking ass holes

I've just been told by my real estate agent that we are in breech of some strata laws by having pots and a table on our porch. Instead we are supposed to have nothing there at all.

What kind of nasty wankers have decided now all of a sudden to target us with this petty demand? Don't they have better things to do like clean up the graffiti on the walls, or evict the noisy little fuck wits who live in our block somewhere and wake us up at 3am during the week on a regular basis. What about the shit for brains who leave furniture in the wheelie bins room. Or the moron who owns a cat in the complex?

So I have to kill my plants, and I have no idea what I can do with our table. But we will have no place to eat and have people over now.

In case you can't tell, I'm absolutely fuming right now, and I'm ready to give someone a piece of my mind. They better watch out cause I'm ready to start kicking asses and taking names.

Things are gonna change

So after last nights meet with the mortgage dude, we are that little bit closer to having our own home. In preperation for it we've decided to start living as if we are paying a mortgage. So just a heads up to expect us to be extra poor, and turn into even bigger Nana's than we already are in order to save some money.

I don't care if I have to live of rice and vegies for the next 2 years, I'm so excited! :D

It's the new black!

I have today just signed myself and Liz up to do Burlesque dance classes. It's basically the new pole dancing. Actually, now I think of it, it's the old pole dancing. Anyway, I can't wait it should be great fun.

The art of the tease! Who knew taking off a glove could be so beguiling.

Upside down and inside out

Today someone managed to make me totally devastated and then absolutely elated all in the space of 15 minutes. What a talent.

Weekend

* Dinner at Mexican Kitchen
*Consoling an old friend
*Catch up with the Freo crowd
*See some local music
*Go to the railway hotel for the first time ever
*Family morning teas and dinner
*More talk of houses
*Home opens
*New TV-Might Boosh, Harvey Birdman, Big Train & Nighty Night
*More recipes for my cookbook
*Afternoon naps
*Chocolate pudding

What a yummy weekend

Houses

So we though we may have potentially found a house on the weekend. We looked at it briefly on Saturday and were interested enough to make an appointment to go and see it again on Sunday.

Since doing the looking at housing thing I've been reading up on 'first home buyers tips' all of which seem to mention to 'thinking with your head not your heart'. It certainly is a difficult thing to do when you're talking about buying a property that you hope to grow a family in. It doesn't get much more personal and emotional that that.

Many tipsters also talk about making a list of things you want and won't compramise on, which I have done in my head, and I know what Tony wants too. the idea being if you are getting emotionally attached, it allows you to logically stop yourself if it doesn't meet your needs.

So anyway we went along on Sunday with my parents as a second set of eyes. They both though the house was lovely, and very livable, Mum and I talked about what changes you could make to update the kitchen, Dad and Tony talked about how great it would be having a huge shed. Then the real estate agent points out that if Roe highway ever does end up going through, Forrest road (which is very close and you can already hear) would become part of the proposed Roe highway. So you'd have big noisy trucks and just generally a constant stream of traffic day and night. Despite the fact the current government has scrapped it, it doesn't mean it won't happen at some point, really it's inevitable. So after that little nugget of information we also found out the property was tenanted till November. The real estate lady seemed pretty sure the type of lease they had we couldn't kick them out till the lease expired. Their rent was pretty cheap too, so by the time you detract ours from thiers we'd only be ahead $60 a week.

So we thanked the woman, and drove back to our house for some lunch and further discussion. At this point I was still thinking, despite Roe highway, if the price was right (being a fair bit less than the asking price of $415,000) it would still be worth it for maybe 4 years of so, and that I really liked the house itself.

As I was preparing lunch, Mum was watching what I was doing and we were talking foodie stuff on and off, then she brought up a really good point. ' If you have to wait till November to move in anyway I wonder what kind of houses will come up between now and then?'. She had a really good point. I think part of my rush to snap up that house, and ignoring the logical reasons why it wouldn't be the ideal place to buy were because that was the first traditional Cooby cottage I'd seen on the market in about 2 months, and that's exactly what we want (but on a quiet street). I was thinking with my heart and ignoring logic.

So giving my brain time to slow down, putting emotion aside and being logical about the whole thing (after all one my non-compramises was to be a quiet street) we came to the decision that we could most likley find something better. The other thing too is that we haven't gotten our finance pre-approved yet. Hopefully we can sort that out very soon. I am told you have to fill out a bit of paperwork making an offer subject to finance. So it will be much easier and more attractive to sellers if we can make an offer with our finance ready to go. An offer with finance guaranteed, and no wait time for us to sell our existing home will no doubt be far more attractive than the average person. Also it occurs to me that a lot of people will be waiting for the reduction in Stamp duty in the new financial year before buying a home. Being new home owners buying under $500,000 we are exempt from stamp duty, so we don't have that restriction.

So it was a struggle, but heads won over hearts and we continue the search. Next week we meet the finance guy, so hopefully that is sorted soon too. I'm still hoping we can be in a house of our own before Christmas.

Wii

I just bought a Wii fit, and it's AWESOME!! I can't wait to use it more regularly, and track my progress. At the moment I have a 'Wii fit age' of 34, so I'm sure I can do better than that! It wasn't even expensive at just under $150 I hope it proves to be money well spent.

Next time any of you visit team Telinda you'll have to see what your Wii fit age is too. :)

It's nice to be home

And so we return to real life, bills, work, family, dirty laundry, un-made beds, dusty shelves and just the general reality that is my day to day life. I am so glad I decided Tuesday would be a better day to go back to work rather than Monday, so one more day to enjoy at my leisure.

So to sum it up we had a lovely trip down South. Highlights being Adam and Kirstie arriving, touring wineries, driving to Augusta and all the way down to cape Leuwin. I think having a decent amount of time to spend, it was nice being able to have a busy and, then a slack day. We really got the best of both worlds by filling our days to the hilt and other days of not leaving the couch.