Busy Weekend Ahead

Hey,
I have a busy weekend ahead despite my initial plan of having a quiet one at home doing bugger all. I'm going to Adelaide for the day on Friday, which means up at 5am, and don't get back into Melbourne til 7pm, so I will be absolutely exhausted by the time I get home.

The original plan was to make up for a exhausting Friday by sleeping in Saturday. However, Sean has booked his car in for a service Saturday morning, so we need to get up early, I then need to follow Sean down to K-Mart Tyre and Auto in my car to pick him up once he drops his car off. We are then going to go looking at electrical (again), then to the block, then to a lighting place that is having a big closing down sale.

Sunday is fathers day (I didn't realize til yesterday!), which means we have lunch at my grandparents. Sean and I then have to duck off for a while 1/2 way through to go and pick up some Tuppaware at Northland that was stuffed up in our original order. Before we go to my Grandparents Sunday morning we will head off to the Gisborn Market. The Gisborn market is on the first Sunday of every month, and now the spring weather is hitting us should start getting quite a good variety of stores.

Why do I sense that next week is going to be a very tiring week?

RACV Home Show

We went to the RACV Home Show on the weekend. The Homeshow featured pretty much everything to do with building, renovating, landscaping, and general housekeeping stuff.

The show was held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. One of the main things I was looking at was garden and outdoor ideas. Since we have such a small patio garden it is going to be important to make the most of it, so good design is key.

One thing that did p me off was the way they were advertising the show was, 'bring your houseplans and get free advice and tips from builders, landscapers ect'. Now yes they did have a stand there called 'ask a landscaper', and you could go to that stand, look at designs they have done elsewhere, but that is where the free ended. For them to look at your plan and give you ideas you had to book... and just that booking, just for them to share ideas about what could be done was $2,000!

We also took both lots of parents to the block on the weekend to see the progress that is being made. To my surprise, they had builders there working on Saturday til around 2pm.

Its going to be a pretty average week this week. Working in Melbourne Mon-Thurs, then in Adelaide for the day on Friday, flying home Friday evening. So far I have no plans for this weekend which is good, because it is only Monday and I already feel totally nackered.

More House Photos

House photos from Saturday 26/8/06:

House Construction Photos

Hi Everyone,
As promised, here are some photos of the progress on our new place:

Job Change - Take 2

Well, for the second time this year I am about to change jobs. I am moving to the Sydenham Library which is still under construction as a Customer IT Officer.

The main reason behind this move was that a it was around the same amount of money, and is closer to home (about 20-30 mins compared with the 1 hour I do now, or around 5-10 mins once I move to my new place) which means that I will save on both petrol and City Link. It also means that I will get to spend more time at home, and has the added advantage of a 9 day fortnight.

Even though I will be based in a library, it is not a library job. The main resonsibilities include IT help desk support for the public, and running training programs which is the element I am looking forward to the most.

I start the new Job on Monday September 25, and finish my current job on Friday 22nd (no break between - can't afford one at the moment). I'm a little sad to be leaving my current job after such a short time period. I was just starting to settle in and get really comfortable with everything I was doing, and all my workmates.

House Dramas

Last night Sean was looking over the houseplans which I had left at his place at the window structure as he had noticed that the windows on the Frame did not look the same as what we had seen at both the display home and on our houseplans. So that resulted in an 11pm phone call which I was not impressed about cause it woke me up.

Anyway, Sean spoke with the builder on the phone this morning and it turns out that they had stuffed up, and we are now getting the windows we originally thought we were getting (and wanted), so the frame is being adjusted today and there should be no real delay in the build time.

We went to the block Monday night to show Seans brother the progress, and they now have the second story frame complete and have started on the brickwork. They have also done the ground floor frame and some of the brickwork for the other Warehouse next door, but the other 2 Warehouses in our lane are still just slabs. I will post some pics soon.