23 January 2008

Long time, no update! Wow, have our lives changed. We're now living at Rocky Glen and loving every minute of it. Its very different from when we moved into our Minlaton house, and its great - just different. Like when we moved into the Minlaton house, we felt a big pressure to have things like gardens and verandahs done quickly. Out here, we've started stuff but there's nowhere near as much pressure. So far we've planted some grass in the backyard (which is doing great), I've started a "test" veggie garden out the front (which is doing ok), and we've planted trees (15 so far, but we add a few more every now and then).

Our games room is just amazing. James has done so much work in there, and its a really wonderful, fun place. We've got our big projector screen and projector, our bar, a table and chairs, couch, and recently have added a billiard table. And its still comfortable, like its not squeezy or packed in. Its been great to reuse some of our old furniture as well - like we've got our old purple couch in there, and the table and chairs outdoor set we got as an engagement present is in there which is great cos it gets it out the weather and away from the dogs (which will make it last longer - despite being an ourdoor setting, it was starting to deteriorate).

We still don't have a landline phone - I applied for one back in September and Telstra are still fucking us around! They're absolutely hopeless. We got our internet installed this week though so at least I have the phone through that. Sheryn was telling me today that Cindy's phone has been disconnected - Cindy claims its some problem with Telstra, but its pretty clear to us that its probably because they didn't pay their bill. I don't know how they can live on the edge so much. I guess they didn't choose to all at once, just many many bad decisions have added up and provided this result. I feel sorry for them, but they're also kind of role models of what not to do, unfortunately.

I started off in a great routine once we moved out here - the house was always clean and it was never any fuss because it was all kept up with. The house isn't a bombsite at the moment, not cose, but I'm a bit out of my routine and it shows. Might be time to take this Australia Day long weekend to an advantage and get back on top!

We had Angela and Jason look at the house yesterday - they loved it and were apparently talking to their bank today. I just hope they can afford enough to put a good offer in because I just really want to be rid of the house. I'm really starting to feel desperate about moving on - I want to get off the corporate carousel and into being a stay at home mum.