Holidays

I am offically on holidays, but it doesn't feel like it much. I have been working a lot, I did an 8 hour shift the other day. I should get lots of money next week. Kitty is booked in to the vet on Thursday, she is going to have an imunisation and have her bits done, and I am thinking about microchipping, but I don't know if it will be worth it. It's not that much money, and in the event that she does get out and go somewhere, we have a much better chance of getting her back. Its such a nice cat that I would be very upset if something happened to it. Its asleep on my legs at the moment.

I wish the warmer weather would hurry up and come back. I don't like winter much, and it is cold in my house today.

I was able to cross off quite a few things from my to do list. I paid a few bills, and booked the cat in, and I am going to book in to donate blood next week. I am really nervous about it, cause I remember how horrible it felt last time. I struggle with it cause they always seem to have trouble finding the vein and then getting it to run enough. The last time the nurse had to move the needle around in my arm and I felt it scraping. Ewwww, not nice! However, true to my nature I will do it again. It is a good thing to do. I will just have to see about how my overseas travel will affect it. That just occured to me then. But the US is a safe place to travel to.

I had a very nice steak last night. Meat seems so expensive. That is one of the wonderful things about the farm, we had a beautiful silverside roast the other day from the farm. It would be a lot of money to buy it in the supermarket. So if you are reading this Rosie, it was a nice roast, and I got a congratulations from Mark cause he liked it lots. I even made a fantastic white sauce to go on it. Thats one thing I can make well in the Kitchen.

Houses

Mark and I went and looked at houses in the new housing developments, wondering if it might be a good investment to buy one now, and then ten years later it would be worth a lot of money. But we found that it was a long way from the centre of the city, and there are a lot of things that you need in a house that you find isn't included, or they say they are including it for a great deal, things like floors and windows and walls. Important things like that.

So we were looking at houses in surrounding suburbs to see if there was anything in our price range, and there are houses out there if you are prepared to shop around suburbs. We will have to take a small two bedroom house because that it all we can afford in the surrounding suburbs. But the few houses we looked at are close to trams and trains and close to where Mark is working. We'll have a look and see if we like them. I know that I am ready to live in my own house with just me and Mark where I can have some cupboards for storage, and a spare bed for people to stay in, and a spare room for practicing. Notice how everything is about space? I love living with Netty, and now that we are settled in things are working o.k with the kitchen and bathroom, but when I talked to her this morning about houses she agrees that she is ready for a house with just her and Aaron, ready to start making a home, and move away from the share home environment. I feel like there are two houses squished into one house at the moment.