New House and jumbled thoughts
Am now firmly in place at the new house and enjoying every minute of it. Even the unpacking. It is satisfying to get everything into its correct place, allowing me to indulge in my slight case of obsessive compulsiveness.
The internet is working now, which is good. It is not working as well as it should, which is bad. It is currently being corrected, which is good. The frozen yogurt contains traces of potassium chloride, which is a Simpsons joke.
The neighborhood seems great. It turns out that I live just a few houses down from a work colleague (who is actually quite a nice person), work is only five kilometers away so walking is not a problem, and the coffee shop is closer.
I have decided to throw a little bit of caution into the wind (making sure that its bags are packed and it'll tell the teachers if it gets bullied) and spend cold hard cash on those things that are just needed for a new house. I knew that portions of the move would be expensive; the yet to be delivered $2000 couch for example, and the bookshelves and new TV unit which I'll be hunting for tomorrow.
So far I've managed to score a seven piece outdoor setting for only $200, and it looks like I should have paid a lot more for it. I have a fantastic new dining table thanks to the awesomeness that is Liz and Mike(y), things have been going really well. Touch wood that luck will stay and help me tomorrow when I go get more furniture.
Granted I have had some bad luck. The couch that I ordered from Hardly Normal is overdue by a week but that is apparently to be expected. We are not without things to sit on thanks to Steffi's futon, but it would be nice to get the couch in to round out the living room. Getting the bookshelves and TV unit tomorrow will help that as well.
So, all is good and I'm hoping that it stays that way.
Work starts again next week, I'll be going in this week to get stuff organised but I'm really looking forward to getting back to it. I do miss my class. I've been thinking for most of this year (now that I'm permanent) about my career and where I want it to go. It's been on the books to shoot for an executive role at some point, but given how much I miss my class now, I'm not sure if that is really what I want. The fact that we just lost one of our SLC's (School Leader C) to the south coast has brought the idea up again...however...I'm just gonna keep on remembering that I'm only 26 and that I have all the time in the world for advancing up that ranks. Right now I love being in my class so that's where I'm gonna stay.
The internet is working now, which is good. It is not working as well as it should, which is bad. It is currently being corrected, which is good. The frozen yogurt contains traces of potassium chloride, which is a Simpsons joke.
The neighborhood seems great. It turns out that I live just a few houses down from a work colleague (who is actually quite a nice person), work is only five kilometers away so walking is not a problem, and the coffee shop is closer.
I have decided to throw a little bit of caution into the wind (making sure that its bags are packed and it'll tell the teachers if it gets bullied) and spend cold hard cash on those things that are just needed for a new house. I knew that portions of the move would be expensive; the yet to be delivered $2000 couch for example, and the bookshelves and new TV unit which I'll be hunting for tomorrow.
So far I've managed to score a seven piece outdoor setting for only $200, and it looks like I should have paid a lot more for it. I have a fantastic new dining table thanks to the awesomeness that is Liz and Mike(y), things have been going really well. Touch wood that luck will stay and help me tomorrow when I go get more furniture.
Granted I have had some bad luck. The couch that I ordered from Hardly Normal is overdue by a week but that is apparently to be expected. We are not without things to sit on thanks to Steffi's futon, but it would be nice to get the couch in to round out the living room. Getting the bookshelves and TV unit tomorrow will help that as well.
So, all is good and I'm hoping that it stays that way.
Work starts again next week, I'll be going in this week to get stuff organised but I'm really looking forward to getting back to it. I do miss my class. I've been thinking for most of this year (now that I'm permanent) about my career and where I want it to go. It's been on the books to shoot for an executive role at some point, but given how much I miss my class now, I'm not sure if that is really what I want. The fact that we just lost one of our SLC's (School Leader C) to the south coast has brought the idea up again...however...I'm just gonna keep on remembering that I'm only 26 and that I have all the time in the world for advancing up that ranks. Right now I love being in my class so that's where I'm gonna stay.