Glitching
I haven’t been here for a while.
Sorry 🙂
…problems with the internet, amongst other things.
Anyway, I’m still loving this house. I’ve unpacked and organised most of the boxes and bags, and even managed to sit out on the verandah for a while, reading and watching the rain.
I’ve been hanging stuff on the random hooks as well – here’s some hearts ❤
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I’ve organised the areas a bit better in our section of the house – even have some friends to spend time with 😆
There’s a TV nook…
…and a little reading corner.
There’s also a weird connection with the business on the street in front, which we found out one evening a week or so ago. The power went out through the entire house, even though the fuses, when we checked, were fine. Turns out the master switch for our electricity is in the shop, and they had turned off all the switches when they were closing up. Thankfully they stayed long enough for us to sort it out – they’re good people who weren’t trying to upset us, just people who haven’t been given all the information. We found that out when our internet suddenly died last week. Turns out their real estate agent gave them our address as theirs, so when they went to turn on their internet, our provider assumed we’d changed to another company…and their internet didn’t work at all. We still haven’t been able to sort ours out completely. We’re using a temporary modem at the moment, which decides when and where it wants to work. Our previous one worked for a few hours, until some work was done on something(?) and everything went off again.
Hopefully it will be sorted out Monday.
Apart from all that – we’ve been told (although not officially) that this place might be sold at the end of our lease, and the buyers would be wanting to move in then 😥 Our real estate agents say they know nothing about it, and the person dealing directly with us suddenly quit the other day, so we have to try to find out what’s going on.
Hopefully it will be sorted out Monday 😆
I don’t feel like this is a temporary place.
We’ll have to wait and see…
In the meantime, I’ll take heart(s 🙂 ) and keep on singing!
I wanted to add a song, but couldn’t think what to choose. So here’s a random pick from my YouTube “liked” videos over the last few years.
It doesn’t completely speak to my life experience 😆
But it does ring some bells.
Getting Lighter
Hard to believe we’ve been here just under three weeks now…
I’ve been working hard getting boxes unpacked and contents settled. Things have had to be rearranged a bit, as the storage space is different here, so that’s required getting some new bits of furniture. This, in turn, has meant I’ve had to wait to get shelves so that I can fill them 😀
Still, nearly there!
I’m still amazed at how much like home this place feels. I haven’t even missed the last place, and even though every morning I wake up to a room that is at least four times the size of our last bedroom, it doesn’t feel strange to me. I haven’t ventured out too often to the verandah yet (although I’ve got plants out there that need watering…). I also seem to feel a bit better here – not sure why. That has helped me to lug boxes about, but I still end up with days where I can’t do much of anything.
The light here can be a bit strange. All the windows are coloured glass, so the rooms don’t have much natural light (all the more reason to set up space on the verandah!).
The sun still shines in – it’s just in jewel tones and sparkly moments 🙂
Here’s the afternoon light through my “art room to be” windows.
In a lot of ways, moving here has made my life a lot lighter.
❤
Here. Now.
Well, we’re in.
There’s still boxes everywhere, and spaces are still a bit alien (I seem to be doing continual circuits trying to figure out the kitchen…).
Feels like home 🙂
We finalised the cleaning on the old place, and handed in the keys. Most of the places we’ve lived in before now have been a bit hard for me to part with – I tend to get attached, at least a bit. This time, I didn’t really feel much when we left, which is strange as it’s probably the place we’ve lived the longest.
Our priorities for the first day here involved sorting out a food/drink station, and making up the beds.
We were all ready to sleep after everything was finally moved in.
The view from the bed – afternoon light, and possibilities.
Of course, I’ve sorted out some of my books by now 😀
We only have a six month lease here, but are hoping to renew when it comes to it…
This place has felt like our house since we first viewed it.
Now we have to continue to shape it into our home!
Feeling…
Not sure, really.
Packing’s been going well, aiming to get it all to the new house tomorrow.
I keep thinking that I’ll start to feel sad about leaving here – it was a good place for us when we moved in – but I’m not feeling much of anything at the moment.
I do still feel at home in the new place, though. It’s got its bizarre qualities (the real estate agent said something along the lines of it being difficult to figure it out – there’s always something new/strange 😆 ). Apparently the rooms downstairs that we’re using for lounge room and an office/studio are listed as bedrooms (they both have “ensuites”, although one doesn’t have a door and the other one has a see through glass door…) Not sure what that makes the bedrooms upstairs! We’ve had a lot of trouble with keys – all, except one, on the bunch we were given don’t seem to work on anything. Fortunately that one opens multiple doors…there are also multiple padlocks on things that don’t have any keys at all. It might be confusing for a while!
Anyway – nearly there!
Getting back to “feeling(s)”…here’s a song I’ve been listening to the last couple of days. Most people will probably recognise the song. I don’t know much about The Bass Gang (except Peter, who has a reaction channel on YouTube that I watch sometimes.) Tim Foust (taking the lead here) is from Home Free, and one of the bassiest basses out there 😀
For a bass heavy song, it’s quite high in places…
What’s been funnier for me has been watching some of the reactors I watch reacting blind to the song – they were sent the clip with no information as to the song or guest artist.
Such fun!
Well, I’ll be moving on now – got to get some sleep (sometime).
Enjoy! 🙂
A Moving Experience
At least just over half of one!
We moved a whole lot of stuff to the new house today (and thank you to the wonderful people who came to help us!)
The most important things had to go first, of course.
Where will I put all the boxes of books if I don’t have my bookcases?
We’ll be doing the rest next weekend, with a few visits during the week to do bits and pieces.
We got the keys Friday. Had a look – there are some things that need fixing or changing. Definitely too many wasp nests hanging under the verandah for my taste. Of course, one would be too much for me…
It’s an old place, so some things are wonky (our built in cupboard doors slide to the middle when you try to shut them), and we’ll have to figure out keys, light switches, power points, and our bins seem to have disappeared.
However, this was the sight that first greeted us when we pulled up to the carport.
It’s all coloured glass and wood inside (tiles downstairs).
……
This makes me think of butterflies, even though they’re…not.
The shade in our “walk in wardrobe”.
Yes, that is a spa bath in the corner of our bedroom…
as tempted as I am to fill it up and have a go, it’s not plugged in, and using it would also mean cleaning it.
Maybe I’ll get a foot spa.
I’m thinking of filling it with some sort of cushioning and making it into a mini sunken lounge 😆
Also a part of our bedroom area is the magical hidden toilet.
We thought the door was part of the wardrobe, but slid the door across and there it was!
The light through the window obscures the glass slats, all painted different colours ❤
I did look in it today and surprised a spider and many ants (also in the cistern). It may need some work before we use it.
There’s also a lovely old basin hidden at the side.
Looking out to the verandah.
(I have a verandah! 😀 )
It’s surprisingly quiet, and cool.
There are still things to pack and transport. We’ll be here until the last minute, when the fridge and beds go over.
But – we’re on the move!
A Place To Rest
We’ve found a home! 😀
(Yes, it’s the place with a spa bath in the corner of the main room 😆 )
It might have its problems, but then so could anywhere. In the end, we left it up to God to make the decision for us – we figured He knows the future better than we do…
Started packing again today – thankfully it was a bit cooler. We pick up the keys on Friday, but don’t have to move from here for another ten days (we had to give two weeks notice to break the lease). That makes moving a bit more leisurely, but we’ll still need to work to get everything done, cleaned and moved by then. Still, it’s exciting!
It’s also Valentine’s Day today ❤
This might set the mood…
We probably won’t be using the spa in the new place (we’ll try to cover it and make a sort of shelf/lounging space), but if we do, I don’t think it’ll be like this ^ 😆
So, now we’re moving on, to a place where, hopefully, we can rest!
Yes, I know this doesn’t quite fit (I’ve often thought I would choose it as a funeral song), but have a listen anyway…
At some point I will get photos of the new place to show it off – yay!
The Behemoth Stirs…
Slowly. And frustratingly. At least, though, it got to a vaguely helpful stage.
Don’t mind me – I’ve just had another tussle with Centrelink. A form that was submitted in plenty of time, then sat there not being dealt with, until the reason it was meant to be submitted started causing problems. I left it as long as I could – no-one really wants to phone them – but I had to sort it out. Over an hour waiting, to be told by the person answering that the system was working slowly because of the thousands of people wanting stuff done, and did I think I should be able to go ahead of everyone else?
We Had Words.
Mostly to do with the fact that if they give me a date to submit something, and I do it by that date, then I shouldn’t have to deal with the fallout when they don’t do their jobs. Also that the thousands of other people are not my responsibility, and why should I be hearing about them?
If you think about it, other organisations don’t generally do this…if I put money into my bank account to pay a bill, I don’t expect them to not put it through because they have so many other accounts to deal with as well 😆 Also – if Centrelink provided systems that do what they’re supposed to do, perhaps they wouldn’t have so many people clogging up the system trying to fix what shouldn’t be broken. Just a thought.
I was told on that call that my form was now submitted. It…wasn’t. No record of it, so I had to go in to the counter to hand it over face to face. At every stage they asked me why I didn’t use the online “service”. 😆
Oh well.
It’s done now.
Another slow moving part of our lives has been trying to find a new place to rent. There have been a lot of viewing cancellations and disappointments at not being chosen for places we liked. We looked at a place this morning, and have put in an application. It’s a bit weird (the room that would be our bedroom has a spa bath in the corner), but maybe weird suits us at this stage of our lives…
Anyway, we’ll find out soon enough.
Yesterday I was feeling a bit blue. Music tends to cheer me up!
Another Trip Round The Sun…
…even though it was raining some of the time!
Another birthday nearly over, and I had fun. The rain was quite nice – it’s been very hot and humid the last few days, so it was good to have a coolish day.
We went in to New Farm, did some shopping at the charity shop there, and stopped off at one a bit closer to home. I love finding the little oddities there, and I like the idea of recycling interesting things.
I got books (of course), and also these –
The cat is some sort of scent burner.
My family gave me lovely things as well, so I have been richly blessed today ❤
Ate nice food, enjoyed my day… feeling a bit tired and achy (well, I am getting older!) 😆
I’ll start on my next year tomorrow…
Here are some tiny flowers I came across today 🙂
Not sure what they are, but they’re delicate and sweet.
This may not be a flower…
❤
On The Way To The Stars
Another house we really wanted, but it went to someone else…
discouraging, but we have a couple of others to possibly have a look at.
This year seems to have been galloping on so far. We’re past the middle of January and it still seems vaguely “after Christmas”. We can’t know what this year will bring, but it seems it will bring it a bit more quickly than we might be anticipating 😆
I bought myself some virtual challenges as a Christmas/New Year present to myself, and a couple of weeks ago also received the medal for my 2022 challenge.
Front…
Back – the moon comes off, and you can wear it as a pendant.
“Per aspera ad astra” means “through adversity to the stars”.
It opens up as well, and above the medal is the back of the pendant.
I have had a few good weeks this year – I’ve even managed to get to an in person church service every Sunday this year! I feel like my joyous gallivanting has caught up with me a bit 😆 I’ve noticed that when I do too much, I can come down with a flu like thing (sore muscles/joints, cough, feeling like a balloon is swelling behind my face), which is where I’ve been this week. We stocked up with covid tests before the free ones were stopped, so I’ve done a few of those lately (covid test says “no”!).
We did manage to get out last week for a cuppa at the cafe, and a talk about the year ahead. Nice cake as well…
And while I’m thinking about flowers, here are some lovely ones I got at church this Sunday ❤
This year is still a mystery…
good thing I don’t have to worry!
🙂
1000 Fields of Roses 