Day One - And All Is Good

Well, day 1 at Brimbank has been completed without any dramas or too big a headache. Had an OK nights sleep.

The day started with a very informal overview of the whole SILC idea and plans, followed by lunch and branch tours. Only took me 30 minutes to get to work which was good. Have an RDO of Friday so I am looking forward to the sleep in.

Have training in AmLib which is there ILS tomorrow, so that should be a challenge. Anyway gotta go and laydown and watch some telly.

I'll keep you all updated on how the week goes.

House Update

Went to the block today and good progress has been made on the house this week. Windows and external doors have been added, scaffolding has been setup around the exterior, and brickwork is now up past the first floor.

Sean and I also managed to climb up and walk up on our second story for the first time (see photos below of 2nd story bedroom and loft.

Here are the latest photos....

Above: View from upstairs looking over the balcony down into the gallery


Above: Looking from the upstairs bedroom, through the bathroom and toward the loft.

Above: The upstairs loft

Above: Upstairs bedroom including Juliet Balcony doors

Above: Front of the house (Gallery on left, office/loft on right)

Above: View from backyard

Above: Corner view showing the front and side (road side)

Above: Looking at the back 1/2 of the gallery from the office/study

Above: Looking into the Kitchen from the Gallery

Weekly Update

Oh well, another weekend is over and I have now started my last week at SirsiDynix. It's shaping up to be a busy week. A workmate from Adelaide is over for the next few days doing some training, so I am going out with her for dinner tonight. I have a tender I need to get finished by lunch time Wednesday I have been working on for most of today, then I have some other jobs I want to finish up before Friday.

disappointingly very little work was done on the house last week - not even enough to warrant new photos. The only change has been the sewage plumbing for upstairs has been put in. The windows are all still sitting there - not yet put in, which means that no more brushwork has been done, cause they are waiting for the windows to go in before they can brick up any higher.

My lot are up in Queensland at the minute so I have been staying at seams house since Friday. As I always find when I stay away from home I have not been sleeping as well, so I am already feeling totally exhausted. Hopefully I will hit the pillow tonight and go out like a lightbulb.

Until my next blog... Goodnight!

Another Day, Another Dollar

Well it is fast approaching the end of another week. This week has flown by (thank god), and so far it looks like it may be a quiet weekend. My Mum and sisters are off to Queensland for a couple of weeks, so it should be nice a quiet at home. Traffic should hopefully be a little quieter on the way to and from work, meaning more time at home and less time on the road.

It has been extremely busy at work this week. I have so much to get done before I finish up here next Friday. To think I have really settled in now, and I am going to go back to being unsettled and having to learn everything from scratch again.

Oh well. Hopefully a great deal has been done on the house this week since it has been nice weather. Anyway I have to go, so much to do, so little time!

Latest House Photos

Hi Everyone,
Here are the latest house photos. No work what-so-ever was done on the house this week - very disappointing!

Weekly Update

Well, it has been one full week since my last entry, so I thought I had better put something in. It has been a pretty busy week at work, and I can not see myself getting through everything I have to do before I finish on September 22nd.

We have had another setback with the house this week. The Island bench we wanted for the kitchen that the builder said they could do when we were buying the house has now turned around and say they can not do it for our model. They were going to charge us around $1,500 for it, so I have been getting pricing from other kitchen companies, and so far it looks like we will be paying around $1,100 to have it done by another company - which worked out better for us.

Windows were delivered to the house the other day, but were not installed as of Tuesday - we will be going to the block on the weekend, so hopefully the windows will be installed and we will be slowly creeping closer to lockup (I'll post photos next week).

Apart from the above, it really has been a week of all work and no play, so I'm feeling pretty exhausted and looking forward to at least one sleep in on the weekend.

Pretty easy weekend, tomorrow morning we have to take Seans car in for a service, but apart from that we have no major plans. My Grandparents, Mum, and Sister are off to Queensland at the end of next week, so we will go and visit Grandma and Grandpa on the weekend to see them before they go.

Thats all from me!