I have finally got around to putting my tax return in! It’s one of those things that kept crossing my mind…except when I was online, where I could fill out the form and lodge it. In the end, it was easy, and I have avoided the fine I would have got if it was after October 31st. Sometimes the easy things are harder than they seem…
Well, we’re still looking for a house – we get to the final stage, but then go no further. From what we can find out, it’s nothing to do with us personally, it’s just that there are too many people for too few places. Still, I’m enjoying dreaming of how we would fit into each house we look at.
What with this, that, and the other (houses, taxes, Centrelink…) it’s sometimes hard to keep calm and carry on. Sometimes it’s a bit more like this –
Ok, maybe not quite like that.
My inner screaming is not that melodic.
We’ll get there, wherever there is meant to be. In the meantime…
Unfortunately, we didn’t get the house we liked, even though our application got through some of the stages. We’ve heard that there are apparently too many applications of a high standard for each rental, so someone has to miss out 😦 I was quite disappointed when we heard yesterday, but at least we can look at more listings – we’re going to see a place on Saturday. I’m just at the stage where I want to be moved and done, certainly before it starts getting too hot. We’re sort of partially packed, with boxes in odd places. When I’m feeling a bit blah, good music helps to calm me. Today was a bit more like this…
🙂 I’d still like to be settling into a new place, though.
The rain today has made me think of this song – I’ll have to get the album!
…although I don’t really know where we are in this “movie”! 😆
We’ve had a look at three places so far – the first is still being decided, the second we were quickly told our “application has not been successful”…don’t know why. The third, we saw today. It looked promising online (4 bedrooms/2 bathrooms, separate living areas), but reality was disappointing. Sometimes I “feel” a place when I enter it – this one felt unsettling to me, and even faintly distressing. I felt locked in, like a prison. I’m not sure why. It was a weird sort of place – the downstairs had been built in to create “bedrooms”, but one of those had no powerpoints at all – just an extension cord dangling from the ceiling, through the hole in the floor above. There was a “kitchen” and a “kitchenette”, which included a sink and worktop in each. Apart from that, the “kitchen” had a stovetop, and some sort of toaster oven. It all felt quite industrial and institutional. There was no air conditioning at all, which is not uncommon in a lot of places I’ve seen online – some only have air conditioning in the living room and/or the main bedroom. This place didn’t even have fans, in any room or living space. The doors to the outside required a key, so we couldn’t just go out to see what was out there… we didn’t put in an application, and the estate agent didn’t seem to expect us to.
We’ll wait and see what happens with the place we saw yesterday. It’s got the number of rooms and bathrooms we wanted, but it’s overall a bit smaller than it looked online (I wish they wouldn’t stretch the photos out so much!). I liked the feel of it, though. 🙂
We’ve been taking photos and scans of a multitude of documents for applications, which all seem to take hours, so here are some photos I took of the flowers in my garden. A little bit of sweetness and colour amongst all the paperwork!
These little pigfaces again – they’re putting on quite a show for me this year!
My sage is flowering 🙂
I don’t know what these are called, but they turn up bright and cheerful each year, whether I remember to water them or not.
As for the popcorn… I needed a giggle this evening.
Had a lovely time today, going through boxes in preparation for our eventual move. I felt great that I had the ability to achieve as much as I did, but it was perhaps more than I should have done 😆 We shall see tomorrow! I’ve been packing bits and pieces for a while, but we’ve finally breached the dreaded CupboardUnderTheStairs. After (14…15…who knows?) years of homeschooling, there are boxes and boxes of paper. Sweet Bean finished his schooling at a distance ed school, but up until then we were flying under the radar with the education authorities, and got into the habit of saving schoolwork just in case we were called to account somewhere along the line. It’s been interesting seeing some of the early attempts again (and there’s still lots to look through!) but it takes ages to sort out the keep/throwaway piles. Part of my packing strategy involves using as much “dead” space as I can – anything with any space to spare gets something shoved into it! This included all my Tardises (Tardisi?) at one point. At least one of them seems bigger on the inside!
There’s still room! 😆
Rest day tomorrow, then I’ll get stuck in again. We still don’t really know where we’re going yet, but it should be interesting. And there’s one thing I do know –
Possibly linens? We’ve been married 28 years today. I thought I’d look up the traditional gift…the 28th year doesn’t really feature in most lists. The ones I did find were the above options (lavender is the “colour” for this anniversary, apparently). Otherwise, we’re somewhere between silver and pearl 🙂
Anniversary selfie! I haven’t edited this at all (apart from a bit of cropping). Something about the lighting in the cafe makes it seem like we both have make-up on…or at least that we’re a lot younger than we are 😀
We went off for a coffee and cake (or chocolate slice…) together, then celebrated further with a lovely steak dinner. Spent a large part of the evening sharing YouTube clips of songs and bands/singers we’ve each been enjoying lately. It’s been very busy in various ways, with not a lot of time to sit together and talk. We enjoyed taking the time to talk, and also snuggle on the couch, listening to good songs. Here’s one that seemed appropriate for today!
Packing for our coming move proceeds…sporadically, and with some difficulty. But it is still ongoing. I’ve been finding that I have bursts of ability, so I dart about, trying to do what I can in that space. Then the next day or so it feels like I’m coming down with flu!
Today I thought I’d tackle the stuff under the bed. In my head, it seemed simple (I do a lot of “packing” in my head). In reality, I found I couldn’t pull the larger boxes out far enough to clean them down, and ended up sitting on the dusty carpet, crying… Thankfully, my Babe was around to help ❤ I cleaned off the dust, in preparation for packing more in the boxes that have space. Then I was able to do the ordinary cleaning, before luxuriating in a lovely hot bath 🙂
We still don’t know where we’re moving to. We just have to trust that it will all come together when it needs to. In the meantime – here’s a song that came out today!
Well, Australian music has had a rough time of it lately 😥 Yesterday, we said goodbye to another iconic voice – Olivia Newton-John. Another voice from my childhood…also one of the first (in my memory) of a singer with a definite Aussie accent. My memories are mostly from the 70s and 80s, from Grease to the Xanadu/Physical era. I didn’t really know which song to pick for this post – the songs from Grease didn’t seem to fit…so here’s one from Xanadu!
a bit of creativity, a bit of eco consciousness, a bit of inspiration.... hopefully not a lot of pompousness and blathering :D
i'm not entirely sure what's going on here... let's travel along and see...
1000 Fields of Roses 