I have moved in!
My place is so unbelievably cool! I constantly just look around and smile. I'm in a group of shops down the eastern end of Centre Rd in Bentleigh East. There's a massive courtyard in the rear and a shed for all my homebrew kit. I have my own clothesline, my bedroom is huge! I've just been out buying stuff all morning to sort my place out. Small things like a broom for sweeping up leaves (I've never had so much fun gardening), a door handle for my homebrew shed, replacement outdoor lights and barstools for my bench!!
I went to BBQ's Galore the very first chance I had to scout out stuff for my awesome courtyard. I ended up spending a few hundred more than I planned, but it was on appropriate things for my living space. Well, I can't really justify it at all other than 'because I could.' My other slight justification for it was that I originally planned to reach a goal to save $8,000 by the end of the year, I reached $10,000 not too long ago and decided to reward myself. Plus I do have close to $1000 owed to me in the next few weeks, plus Army not paying me properly.
I'm playing soccer this evening for the PCYC Members Vs Kids match. I though they were going to be 16yr olds we were playing against, but it turns out that we're going to be playing about 12 yr olds. I'm almost going to feel a little bit bad about beating them.
Army sent me up to QLD again for the weekend. This is getting tiresome and pointless, the weekend was for the Solomans deployment, but it was nothing that we couldn't have covered in Victoria. Army's starting to frustrate me a little bit now, they pulled me in on Tuesday night, last week, and told me that if I wasn't going on the operation next year they would have promoted me that night to Lance Corporal. They went further to tell me that should I decide that I don't want to go to the Soloman Islands at any time, they'll promote me at the next available opportunity. Way to give me mixed messages, I'm happy that they want to promote me, but did they have to tell me? I don't think so.
I hate days when I'm not working, there's only so much handymanning, furniture arranging and shopping I can do. I'm going to be in trouble when there's nothing to do around this place on my days off. Hopefully it'll be sunny and I can head to the beach.
Lets try some photos: This is my kitchen/lounge before the great unpacking.
This is my fabulous courtyard at 7am on a glorious spring morning!
I went to BBQ's Galore the very first chance I had to scout out stuff for my awesome courtyard. I ended up spending a few hundred more than I planned, but it was on appropriate things for my living space. Well, I can't really justify it at all other than 'because I could.' My other slight justification for it was that I originally planned to reach a goal to save $8,000 by the end of the year, I reached $10,000 not too long ago and decided to reward myself. Plus I do have close to $1000 owed to me in the next few weeks, plus Army not paying me properly.
I'm playing soccer this evening for the PCYC Members Vs Kids match. I though they were going to be 16yr olds we were playing against, but it turns out that we're going to be playing about 12 yr olds. I'm almost going to feel a little bit bad about beating them.
Army sent me up to QLD again for the weekend. This is getting tiresome and pointless, the weekend was for the Solomans deployment, but it was nothing that we couldn't have covered in Victoria. Army's starting to frustrate me a little bit now, they pulled me in on Tuesday night, last week, and told me that if I wasn't going on the operation next year they would have promoted me that night to Lance Corporal. They went further to tell me that should I decide that I don't want to go to the Soloman Islands at any time, they'll promote me at the next available opportunity. Way to give me mixed messages, I'm happy that they want to promote me, but did they have to tell me? I don't think so.
I hate days when I'm not working, there's only so much handymanning, furniture arranging and shopping I can do. I'm going to be in trouble when there's nothing to do around this place on my days off. Hopefully it'll be sunny and I can head to the beach.
Lets try some photos: This is my kitchen/lounge before the great unpacking.
This is my fabulous courtyard at 7am on a glorious spring morning!