So it turns out Adam was right, the day after I posted my last post, we got an offer for $436k for the house. 11k more than what I wanted to settle for. SOLD ( Read more... )

Hey guys, just came in to see how I'm going with my yearly goals for this year. So cutting and pasting from my 1st January post:

WORK ( Read more... )

Hi everyone - continuing my trend of only posting resolutions, it's time to look at last year's goals for the first time since making them lol, and see how I went. Also, new goals.

WORK ( Read more... )

There's nothing that makes me more ill than looking at property prices. The area I want to buy - some of those houses have risen in price by 200k in the last eighteen months while I've been looking and my house value has gone up maybe 40k? Like I don't understand how the value of my house could have gone up a paltry $180k in the past ten years when ( Read more... )

1. Adam let me have a giant nap today and let me wake up naturally. This is the happiest of things ( Read more... )

1. We just got through Lunar New Year unscathed. Lunar New Year tends to be a time when my mum reflects on her life and hates it, then puts on a happy face because that's what you're supposed to do on New Year's Day and it's the absolute worst. But it's over now and my kids gave very good blessings in Vietnamese in front of an audience and everyone ( Read more... )

1. They might be allowing me to keep my 8-4 shift when I move to the Finance team. Working 9-5 would kill me because I'd get home around six thirty and the boys go to bed at seven thirty and that's not why I go to work, I'd rather do something shit and see more of them. So good news ( Read more... )

1. We didn't do anything for Valentine's Day because Adam's in the middle of exams, and I'm kind of glad that I don't *care* about it? Like, at no point did I feel disappointed or upset about it because Adam shows that he loves me a million other little ways even if he never makes grand gestures or organises anything. ALSO it gets me out of having ( Read more... )

A couple of people on my flist have started a 'happy things' daily post so I thought I'd give it a go, though I'm sure I'd never keep it up daily ( Read more... )

This is a large brain dump of all the things I need to work out to make some big adult decisions.

( It'll probably get long )