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We are now officially moved out of our apartment!
Holy freaking god am I ever pleased. I didn't even like going back as much as we had to just to get our possessions even. If I could just buy everything new, I think that I would have. As it stands I have a lot of new things to purchase in the coming year, so that will be fun. All except, of course, the actual spending of the money part that the purchases will require. We're actually going to do the whole spend our own money thing and not use debt to purchase stuff, so I can imagine that it will be a bit slow going for awhile.
I was also hoping that this year would bring some needed home improvements. Well, my goal was to put some off for awhile (like a new kitchen) but the necessary things (like a new roof) cannot wait and it is extra handy that it will all likely fit in the guidelines to give me a tax break next year. The key here will to "find" the money to spend in the first place. Granted our closing costs for the house were a lot less than we had budgeted for, but the rest of the money budgeted seems to have disappeared.
Holy freaking god am I ever pleased. I didn't even like going back as much as we had to just to get our possessions even. If I could just buy everything new, I think that I would have. As it stands I have a lot of new things to purchase in the coming year, so that will be fun. All except, of course, the actual spending of the money part that the purchases will require. We're actually going to do the whole spend our own money thing and not use debt to purchase stuff, so I can imagine that it will be a bit slow going for awhile.
I was also hoping that this year would bring some needed home improvements. Well, my goal was to put some off for awhile (like a new kitchen) but the necessary things (like a new roof) cannot wait and it is extra handy that it will all likely fit in the guidelines to give me a tax break next year. The key here will to "find" the money to spend in the first place. Granted our closing costs for the house were a lot less than we had budgeted for, but the rest of the money budgeted seems to have disappeared.
My Boy is leaving me again. You see we have this relationship where we don't actually want to be together. Nor, does it seem, do we want to actually fill out the paperwork that we always say that we are going to in order to allow us to stay in the same country with one another.
That last bit is really all him. You figure that I would get the hint by now, but I'm finding the messages he sends slightly conflicting. You know, we buy a vehicle together, we buy a house together, we even have business cards with *both* of our names on them together, but he doesn't do something like even fill out his application for permanent residency.
This time that he leaves he doesn't really have to, he just wants to. Actually his family is guilting him into going back to work for them for who the hell knows how long. See, that's the fun part of it as well. He hasn't booked his ticket so we don't know when he is leaving nor when he is coming back. He does not have the money to even go back to England either. He cannot legally work here, so he has no income and he is going back to work for no money since the scrap business there isn't doing all that great either (which is why they want him back, you can't get non-family to work for free). So his plan is to charge it to a credit card which he cannot afford to pay back. Even if I didn't have the title of "Financial Planner" in my career life, I would kind of think it is not a financially sound plan. I am also less inclined to stack this up to a "boys are stupid" mentality either. I just blame him.
I should be less ... I don't know, feeling anything about this all since I kinda knew that is how things were before. I guess I just hoped it would be less retarded than this. I suppose everyone has to be wrong once in awhile. Or at least once and this is my turn.
That last bit is really all him. You figure that I would get the hint by now, but I'm finding the messages he sends slightly conflicting. You know, we buy a vehicle together, we buy a house together, we even have business cards with *both* of our names on them together, but he doesn't do something like even fill out his application for permanent residency.
This time that he leaves he doesn't really have to, he just wants to. Actually his family is guilting him into going back to work for them for who the hell knows how long. See, that's the fun part of it as well. He hasn't booked his ticket so we don't know when he is leaving nor when he is coming back. He does not have the money to even go back to England either. He cannot legally work here, so he has no income and he is going back to work for no money since the scrap business there isn't doing all that great either (which is why they want him back, you can't get non-family to work for free). So his plan is to charge it to a credit card which he cannot afford to pay back. Even if I didn't have the title of "Financial Planner" in my career life, I would kind of think it is not a financially sound plan. I am also less inclined to stack this up to a "boys are stupid" mentality either. I just blame him.
I should be less ... I don't know, feeling anything about this all since I kinda knew that is how things were before. I guess I just hoped it would be less retarded than this. I suppose everyone has to be wrong once in awhile. Or at least once and this is my turn.
It is amazing how much one can smell after three days of not showering and of wearing the same clothes.
We got possession of our house on Thursday. The keys were picked up at about 1pm and we go to work moving in right away (we were so excited to get away from our super trashy and ultra whorey upstairs neighbour that we were not waiting until the weekend).
The weather, as most people know, has been unseasonably cold this winter. One of the side effects of said cold is freezing, including, of course, water pipes that were not kept heated while the house was empty (old owners moved out last week).
Of course, checking the water before our pre-moving in inspection never crossed my mind. Nor did it seem to cross the mind of our real estate agent or anyone else in order to mention it to me. So we have moved into a home that had frozen water pipes and today we have found several places where they had busted.
So, no water means no showering. Or cleaning or really anything at all that involves being sanitary.
Thankfully we didn't find someone to move in our old apartment (we had some lookers, but all were put off when they found out who the upstairs neighbours were *sigh*) so we are able to go back and forth and shower there - my turn is coming as soon as Boy gets back, yay! I can hardly wait - and fill up some water containers.
To add to the wall that now needs to be taken down in my laundry room (the electrical wiring, plumbing, etc, is all run through together in a very unsafe-ish way) everything is just a mess. You would expect as much when you are moving but we didn't organize things as well as I thought that we would and we also have two bedrooms that are being painted (we were only planning on one). Boy and I don't have a bed, we only have a mattress, so we are sleeping on a bare mattress on the floor (we don't have sheets either, because our new mattress is a different size than our old one). I can't find any cutlery to eat with and I'm scared we'll set the house on fire with all the heaters we have to use to help dry the wall out in the laundry room but I am so glad that we are here and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
We're home.
We got possession of our house on Thursday. The keys were picked up at about 1pm and we go to work moving in right away (we were so excited to get away from our super trashy and ultra whorey upstairs neighbour that we were not waiting until the weekend).
The weather, as most people know, has been unseasonably cold this winter. One of the side effects of said cold is freezing, including, of course, water pipes that were not kept heated while the house was empty (old owners moved out last week).
Of course, checking the water before our pre-moving in inspection never crossed my mind. Nor did it seem to cross the mind of our real estate agent or anyone else in order to mention it to me. So we have moved into a home that had frozen water pipes and today we have found several places where they had busted.
So, no water means no showering. Or cleaning or really anything at all that involves being sanitary.
Thankfully we didn't find someone to move in our old apartment (we had some lookers, but all were put off when they found out who the upstairs neighbours were *sigh*) so we are able to go back and forth and shower there - my turn is coming as soon as Boy gets back, yay! I can hardly wait - and fill up some water containers.
To add to the wall that now needs to be taken down in my laundry room (the electrical wiring, plumbing, etc, is all run through together in a very unsafe-ish way) everything is just a mess. You would expect as much when you are moving but we didn't organize things as well as I thought that we would and we also have two bedrooms that are being painted (we were only planning on one). Boy and I don't have a bed, we only have a mattress, so we are sleeping on a bare mattress on the floor (we don't have sheets either, because our new mattress is a different size than our old one). I can't find any cutlery to eat with and I'm scared we'll set the house on fire with all the heaters we have to use to help dry the wall out in the laundry room but I am so glad that we are here and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
We're home.
- This is where I used to live.
- I used to get in trouble for reading as a child and have my books taken away from me.
- I have read every single public post from the following two blogs: yeahimadork & thedailywtf
- I did the whole "101 Things" before, but I'd like to see if I can come up with anything again.
- I can't find the things about me post that I did before or I'd likely just copy it again.
- I don't use short forms or acronyms in text messages if I can help it.
- I always feel kind of dirty if I actually do.
- I really am lazy.
- I should be happy with my life, but I don't really think that I am. I want to be though.
- It has taken me 38 minutes to write this much so far.
- I like word games.
- I spend too much time on the computer (who doesn't?!)
- My previous blog was once found out by a work manager who then told EVERYONE at work about it (this blog included a half joke about the sexual attraction that another person in management seemed to have for me).
- I try not to hold a grudge, but I kinda think that I do.
- My step-mother died on November 11, 2008 and I think about it every. single. day.
- I'm still sad about it though I don't really feel that I have the right to be.
- I fantasize about lesbian sex a lot. Not as much as I used to, but enough.
- I think that I could do well in an open relationship.
- I have not told my boyfriend about either things. I try to suppress those particular parts of my personality.
- I have never been to Burning Man, but am as active as I can be with the local Burners around here.
- People say that I am a good listener.
- I neglect myself socially.
- I don't work as hard as I could.
- It is possible for me to blame my lack of character on my past and upbringing, but I really try not to.
- I love my boy. In such a sweet, cutesy, lovey dovey way that it disgusts me.
- I love my boy. In such a dirty, nasty, physically immoral way that it disgusts me.
- I like my kids. And my sister.
- I own almost every episode of Reba filmed.
So I've moved from DiaryLand. This isn't the first time. I keep getting sucked in by fancy new features that other blog sites offer only to be drawn back to the simplicity in basic HTML that I can understand and that Dland provides.
I actually quite miss my early days of blogging. That was back when the others on my "buddy list" actually wrote as well and I really did enjoy reading them. Though I do have to admit to probably spending more time immersed in other people's lives online than I should have been.
I'm a bit pissy with this new location already. I like a template but I cannot get it to work properly. I've read the notes that people have left and I don't seem to be the only one with issues, but still, I was hoping that it would work at least for me. I expected it to, you see.
I think that I'm happy with this one I've found. At least for now. As soon as I can actually figure out how to change/add things that I want to, I think that I'll be happier with it.
It's 5:00am and I can't sleep. It really sucks because I have a lot to do tomorrow. I say that, but the life of an unmotivated, procrastinating self employed person really isn't all that busy. I wish that it were, I'd make more money that way.
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I actually quite miss my early days of blogging. That was back when the others on my "buddy list" actually wrote as well and I really did enjoy reading them. Though I do have to admit to probably spending more time immersed in other people's lives online than I should have been.
I'm a bit pissy with this new location already. I like a template but I cannot get it to work properly. I've read the notes that people have left and I don't seem to be the only one with issues, but still, I was hoping that it would work at least for me. I expected it to, you see.
I think that I'm happy with this one I've found. At least for now. As soon as I can actually figure out how to change/add things that I want to, I think that I'll be happier with it.
It's 5:00am and I can't sleep. It really sucks because I have a lot to do tomorrow. I say that, but the life of an unmotivated, procrastinating self employed person really isn't all that busy. I wish that it were, I'd make more money that way.
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