4 weeks to go!!

Not that we're counting or anything.

Bright as yellow

Life and all it's brilliance stretches before me, bright, shiny, welcoming and beckoning. In all it's colour I can only see the good, which is so blinding, the sadness our world weeps can't been seen in this moment.

Love and blessing abound, life is sweeter than the fresh winter grass, and the dewey mornings. I feel I am almost able to tell my life how it should be, and then it is so. What a gift!

4 1/2 weeks

Time is flying by so quickly and we're hurtling towards moving into our new house. I am hoping after this weekends stat decs we're up to date with all the paperwork Keystart want.

I can't seem to stop myself driving past the house at all hours of the day just to make sure it's still there and that I'm not imagining it. Knowing that it is unoccupied makes it feel senseless that we have to wait so long. I wish all this finance stuff didn't take so long and wasn't so involved.

So of course I've been dreaming about houses, gardening, DIY and just generally what life will be like after we move. Tony made a funny comment the other day about how life's never perfect. So for us we've made a trade off, financial freedom for house freedom. It will suck being poorer than poor, but I think I'd make the same decision a thousand times over if I had to.

Also I've been looking at doggies online from the Shenton Park dog home, can't wait to have a fur baby at our new house!

5 weeks to go

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

This is on TV tonight

I hope lots of people watch and give some thought to the process animals have to go through to become our food.Going vegan isn't for everyone, but it's not hard to eat a bit less meat and eggs, or even to choose to buy only organic free range eggs and chicken meat.

As consumers we have the power to change the way things are done. If no one buys caged chicken products, they'll stop selling them. Simple.

I'm home

So I've just come home from work 'sick', but the frustrating thing is I'm no sick per-say; I've just got a really painful strain in my right shoulder which hurts every time I type, use the mouse or just generally try and move. So no point staying at work, I'm better at home where I can have a hot shower and lounge on the couch with a heat bag on my shoulder.

It's a challenge

I wonder just how much money can we sink away in the last few weeks of being mortgage free?

What women really get up to in the bathroom

From one of my favourite shows 'Green wing'.

It's all coming together

It's 5.30 am and I can't sleep because I'm too excited. My brain continues to go a million miles an hour with thoughts of veggie patches, warm wooden floors, a future of laughs and families being grown.

It feels like this is the first really adult thing I've done with my life. I'm proud of Tony and I that we've found a house that meets all our requirements. For a while there I honestly thought we would have to settle for something not exactly perfect, but nope! It's got everything we want.

Wooden floors - check!
Quiet street-check!
Affordable price-check!
New kitchen and bathroom - check!
Built in robes -check!
Large block-check!
Decent sized bathroom-check!
Neat and tidy-check!
Bath -check!

So we're going back for another look today, and this time I'll really let myself think about where our furniture fits. Up until now I've been trying to stay a bit aloof about the whole thing (with not a lot of success mind you!).

I know where still not totally out of the woods, we still have to get the 2 thumbs up with the building inspection and pets inspection. But the house seems so well cared for I'd be extremely surprised if anything was wrong with it.

I'm also starting to think about what we can do to make it better. One thing it does need is a shed for Tony, he needs a place where he can be a boy, make a mess, be creative and get away. Other thoughts include adding more to the kitchen, as there isn't a whole heap of cupboard space and bench tops. Also I'd love to have a dishwasher installed.

Holy F@ck!

We got it!!!

Third time lucky?

We just made an offer on this house. I hope we get it, it's even more perfect than the last one we offered on!


Features include: aircon, security alarm, retic, jarrah floors, new kitchen, new bathroom, large block, built in mirror robes, newly pained, raised vegie patch beds out back.

Hopefully we'll here back about it today!

Nice work!

So last night I gave blood for the 5th time. This was to be the first time giving blood since going (mostly) vegan. My iron levels have always been OK, hovering around the 125 mark (with the cut of mark for too low iron is 120). Also my blood pressure has always been decent at about 120/75.

So I was expecting borderline iron levels, but guess what? they were at an all time high at 135!! And my blood pressure was about 110/70. Nice work! Seems the vegan thing agrees with me.

Death

This afternoon I've watched too many TV shows about death and sadness, stories of great love parted too soon by death. So now I think upon the great love I have, the kind of love that is better than in the movies, and I can't help but feel a great sadness that one day one of us will be without the other. It might be years, months, a week or just hours; but I think if I am left last, it will kill me. Eventually.

Morbid I know.

Wonders never cease

There is a girl at my work who is about 23 and does not understand what the equator is, nor does she get the differance between countries and continents.

After enjoying our chat on the best place to get your fake nails done I asked if she'd join me in a conversation on Thompsonian Esoterics. She declined.

People who can't park!!

Today some idiot in a cooper Mini has hit my car in the car park. Not only this, they have not left me a note!! If it was not for a girl who works with me telling me she saw the whole thing, I'd be either driving with a buggered bumper bar, or paying a huge excess to get it fixed.

I left her a note saying 'I have a witness who just saw you hit my car!!!! You have damaged the read bumper, expect to hear from my insurance company'.

She then left me a note to say "so sorry, whine, whine, my mirrors, complain, complain, opps, I'm a moron, whinge whinge, I got my licence from a gum ball macine, *tear*".

I called her, gave her a serve, told her she should be ashamed of herself not leaving a note to start with, how she will inconvenience me and my partner because we have just one car. I also told her I expect a hire car when our car is being fixed. She tried to talk it down, but I was having no more crap. "I work in insurance lady!! I know how this works, deal with it"

Once again, I'm all fired up...anyone else wants some?