Time slipped away! Whoops, you know how you get busy and doing "the thing" is always in the back of your mind but somehow more important things come up and then, before you know it a whole year has gone past!
I've been busy working two jobs, the holiday park cleaning and reception work. and the diesel truck stop on the freeway. Love the freeway, always opportunity to pick up extra shifts and the truckies are usually so chill and relaxed. The park I do love I just wish it was more than 13 hours a week, three-two hours a day is really getting me antsy having to get dressed and drive 20 minutes one way.
I'm on the lookout for a rail job that would be great if I could get close to where I live and the pay is. so. much. BETTER
Still doing pet minding here and there for my regulars its nothing like it was before the neighbours shut me down but i'm enjoying my bookings even more when they do come for holidays. I had five dogs in March that was busy!
Ash and I were mucking around on twitch we loved it but then I started night shifts and again that fell to the wayside just like the blog, working on getting the gaming computer set up for Ash as we mostly did out and about live streaming, was great to get us out of the house and doing things together but it did hit my back pocket a bit.
Biggest news is hubby went to rehab for unhealthy habits was in there a week and has come out completly sober and clean. I feel like we can be a team now and I gave him the Barefoot Investor to read while he was in there, well whoops! He's devoured it and is banging on about buckets and blow grow mojo. I'm like "settle down there pettal" its a reccomendation you need to "tread your own path" we have never combined our income, and all the money being blown on his habits I shudder to think how much that has been. My face--->
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So since hubby is on the Barefoot Bandwagon (for now I'm being supportive but also still sceptical although I'd never tell him that) I've set up the ING accounts and now we need to get pays transferred to ING and set up direct debit for home loan.
Also going to switch Foxtel to Kayo and Netflix I love to binge episode and only watch tv once a week so going from $165 a month to $35 a month! Wining! I am so excited but first I need to fill in the paperwork to transfer our pays into the one account. We've been together 14 years at the end of the month and we have never combined accounts- scary! And I will have a small amount put into a second account that's my 'get of dodge' fund. I have $10k cash in savings ideally I'd love to sink it onto hubbys $29k personal loan but I'll see how he handles being sober first.
And big step; our wonderful yet-shoddy-layout-bits-added-to-it-over-the-year-and-it-makes-no-sense-with-the-layout-house we are looking into knocking it all down and starting again, no amount of renovating and glitter is going to turn this turd into a house as much as I tried and hoped, I love old houses and have always been a bit anti new builds but its just a money pit at the moment. And the land can be subdivided but the house is to wide for the driveway that would need to be put in.
So its down to three or four designs it just depends on prices and what is included and not included, they really don't make it easy with the pricing!
I think thats me caught up for the year. I promise to keep up the blog weekly and if I don't you can come and egg my house haha
-Mel
