We have a stairwell. There's a light right at the top of it, that's about 11 feet off the ground, if by ground you mean the step that's directly below it. The stairwell turns at this point, though, so there's not enough room on that stair to put a ladder.

You can brace a ladder across the short part of the stairwell, clamber up it, pray that it ( Read more... )

OK, Three loads of washing done and one more in, and the back porch cleaned of the piles of crap (literally) from Senior Dog, including his set of lying-on mats (Load 3 of the wash. Done by hand in a tub ( Read more... )

We've discovered that all of the agents knew which was our property, and thus have decided to go with the ones that were honest enough to tell us that they knew. Their price is also equal to most of the others (the cheapest had expensive other items so would have made the difference up that way) and they didn't try to brush us off or send us ( Read more... )

Once da_norvegicus has finished his HSC, we'll be selling the Sydney house where he's living with his father. To start the ball rolling, I wrote to the 16 Real Estate agents within 5km of the house asking them for details of their fees and commissions for the sale. I didn't give the house address as I didn't want the lads disturbed, although I did say we'd ( Read more... )

Heya all! This is a call out for friends of ours in the Sydney area. We have FINALLY got our beautiful new house, and would like some help moving boxes and small portable items to it.
( secret address details below )

We have just signed in blood, pledged the life of our first-born and the kidneys of the dog, and sworn allegiance to the Dark Forces.

If the application goes through, we have a mortgage for almost half a million dollars.

That is so scary.

OK, so they're Australia dollars, not US, but hey - the feeling's the same.

djfiggy, as soon as this goes through ( Read more... )

( Smegging smegmation below. And bad language. )

Bad - last night driving home the car died. Overheated. Possibly a complete loss of radiator water, but if so I don't know when it happened. Anyway, i have to go organise tow-trucks.

Ugly - the people who own the house we were interested in have withdrawn the sale. Bummer.

So the only good left is a ( silly meme )

How to tell when the stress levels are rising:

Gillian forgets her ID tags/door passes not once, not twice, but three fricking times in one evening.

And why is Gillian stressed?

( click here for the whole sordid fricking story. )

Ohhhh but some days you wonder why you bother getting up.

( Here lies the yucky work story )