Only one month until Christmas Day!! At this stage I do not know what will be happening as my life will have a changeover in the near future.
May as well say it now as you will all will find out sooner or later. My marriage after 19 years will come to an end. It will be for the best in the long run as things wasn't met to be. As we grow older we wanted differeent things in life and it was time to move forward. Should of done this about 7 years ago but I had kids to think about so that was the reason I tried to stay married as long as I could.
This is the reason why the house is on the market to try and sell as quickly as possible before the divorce case starts. We have afew debts to pay off so selling the house was the only option to get the money to do this. At least I will have my new car (which is now ten months old) that is reliable to get about by myself or my daughter.
It's sure been a stressful time trying to sell a house when the house market isn't quite reliable at present time. Also it doesn't help when I have a 15yo with an attitude problem. Once I moved out, her father can deal with her crappy attitude as he is the one with the full time custody of her. I will be moving back to stay with my parents for a short while with my 13yo. Don't really like the idea of moving back home after 20 years but it was only option to have a roof over my head. Only plan to be there until at least I get back on my feet financially. But more likely when Rachel finishes her schooling I probably move out. Then again I might ended up being a full time carer for my parents as they are getting older in age.
My 13yo will be changing schools in 2014 as it is just abit too far to travel five days a week to another city for just school drop off and picks up. I was hoping in year 2014 to start studying to gain my qualifications I have been wanting for so long. I will start off as a certificate level at college and then take it from there after first completion of course one.
So what goals do you have planned for 2014??
Monday 25 November 2013
Saturday 23 November 2013
Mixed emotions
Is it amazing how your emotions can change in 2-3 days? One moment you can be happy as Larry and the next a bombshell of news hits. I had mixed emotions for the past three days as a couple of events have happened since Wednesday afternoon.
After the late afternoon email on Wednesday about buyer's number 2 contract has became invalid, it was less then 24 hours I had a phone call from the real estate agent to say she found another protential buyer. A family of 5 (but heard later the couple has 9 children) came over after school to inspect the property. We signed the contract just before 5pm that afternoon. I was quite happy but deep down I am thinking will this be another let down after two weeks? Everyone keeps on saying third time lucky! But will it be the case for us?? I am trying my best not to think about this until Christmas. The settlement day won't be until mid January as the solicitors will be closed during the festive season for 2-3 weeks.
I had plans to spend two days away from this house. I just felt I needed abit of a break but when I woke up yesterday morning I felt really tired, run down and my tummy was unsettled. After doing some light housework I decided to have abit of a mid-day nap. I was only thinking it would be about only an hour's snooze but my body told me a different story. It was close to four hours by the time I got out of bed and stayed awake until late last night.
But the worse news of all came.........I walked out to the back verandah to check on my birds at around 5pm as it was close time of the day to bring them inside for the night. I was in total shock to see a dead peachface in his cage. It really broke my heart!! He was the last of our peachface we owned! He was a funny bird to watch with his clowning around acts. He knew how to communicate to the wildlife birds as well.
It was more heartbreaking to watch the other two (royal blue masked lovebirds) looking at their friend, just lying there without any sound. When I brought their cage inside, they were trying to communicate to the other bird for some form of response in return. I don't know if they understood that their friend had passed away.
Today they seen to be back to normal themselves and eating very well. I can hear them happily chirping away on the back verandah.
Last night I was home alone as the other household members were out at the movies until late. I decided to phone a friend who lives in Gladstone. We had a good chat for 2.5 hours about alot of different things happening in our life. We originally started as penpals as we have very common interests in cats and crafts. Even joined the same craft groups and swapped our papercraft made products. But once the internet was installed it was more emails sending then writing with a pen onto paper. We both are still members to one craft group today where we swap ATC jams.
As for the rest of this weekend I will just take it as comes. Have a good weekend everyone!
PS I have another crafty friend who just started her mini business. She decorately paints wooden things like pegs and pencils. If you are looking for Christmas presents she will be at Creative Markets tomorrow. This event is held at Springwood State School on Springwood Road, Springwood.
After the late afternoon email on Wednesday about buyer's number 2 contract has became invalid, it was less then 24 hours I had a phone call from the real estate agent to say she found another protential buyer. A family of 5 (but heard later the couple has 9 children) came over after school to inspect the property. We signed the contract just before 5pm that afternoon. I was quite happy but deep down I am thinking will this be another let down after two weeks? Everyone keeps on saying third time lucky! But will it be the case for us?? I am trying my best not to think about this until Christmas. The settlement day won't be until mid January as the solicitors will be closed during the festive season for 2-3 weeks.
I had plans to spend two days away from this house. I just felt I needed abit of a break but when I woke up yesterday morning I felt really tired, run down and my tummy was unsettled. After doing some light housework I decided to have abit of a mid-day nap. I was only thinking it would be about only an hour's snooze but my body told me a different story. It was close to four hours by the time I got out of bed and stayed awake until late last night.
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| RIP PEACHES |
It was more heartbreaking to watch the other two (royal blue masked lovebirds) looking at their friend, just lying there without any sound. When I brought their cage inside, they were trying to communicate to the other bird for some form of response in return. I don't know if they understood that their friend had passed away.
Today they seen to be back to normal themselves and eating very well. I can hear them happily chirping away on the back verandah.
Last night I was home alone as the other household members were out at the movies until late. I decided to phone a friend who lives in Gladstone. We had a good chat for 2.5 hours about alot of different things happening in our life. We originally started as penpals as we have very common interests in cats and crafts. Even joined the same craft groups and swapped our papercraft made products. But once the internet was installed it was more emails sending then writing with a pen onto paper. We both are still members to one craft group today where we swap ATC jams.
As for the rest of this weekend I will just take it as comes. Have a good weekend everyone!
PS I have another crafty friend who just started her mini business. She decorately paints wooden things like pegs and pencils. If you are looking for Christmas presents she will be at Creative Markets tomorrow. This event is held at Springwood State School on Springwood Road, Springwood.
Wednesday 20 November 2013
Summer storms started
Twenty days into November have just about passed us. As usual I have been busy since my last report written on this blog last week. We had good and bad news!
Monique's reward night happened on last Wednesday night. We just made it back home in time before the storm hit our area. It was only a local one!! She got a certificate and a medal for being the top student of all year 10 students who studied ART. That child has already had a passion for art since she could able to hold a pencil at her early childhood age. She loves to draw!! Their school principal knows how to communicate. I haven't heard someone talks so much about his job he loves!! I only briefly spoken to him once or twice at functions but it was the first time I heard more information about himself. He does remind me abit of the primary school principal which both seem to share the same role about the importance of education of all students. I know how important education is but telling it to teenagers is another matter!
Only this week I read an article about how do we know if our children are ready to start school. I have been there and done that with both girls. Back then one of them was ready to learn in year one while the other should of had another year at preschool. Now both are in high school and I do hope they will graduate year 12. There is alot of children in Logan who are school drop outs after year 10. Actually there is one child I heard has drop out after year 8. I don't know how the child's mother can get away with that one. By law children should be at school until at least year 10. Even then they have to have a job to go to or attend college.
Today was the day to find out if our house sale contract became unconditional. Sadly the buyer who wanted to buy this property had an unsuccessful application to their home loan. Like I said in my previous blog I suspect he might of had loan borrowing hassles if they needed an extra week for approval. I am quite disappointed it's now the second time in two months to have a contract invalid. I hope to had the house sold and be able to start fresh with my life. Now I feel no one wants our property!! Seriously I don't think this property will be sold before Christmas now. On top of that the banks are now getting tougher for applicants to apply for home loans. I think it's just a bad time of the year to sell a property anywhere here. We should of sold it about 5 years ago when we had the opportunity to. I think the house market was alot better back then too.
Summer isn't officially here yet and we already had severe storms hit SE QLD. Most of last week and on Monday there were reports of dangerous cells hit the inland and coastal areas of the state. On Monday we had a show of hail falling for about 15-20 mins. It started to look like snow was falling by the time the hail stopped.
Just realised it is now getting late. I already missed three quarters of a TV show I planned on watching tonight. Guess I will watch it online now. Have a good remainder of the week!
Monique's reward night happened on last Wednesday night. We just made it back home in time before the storm hit our area. It was only a local one!! She got a certificate and a medal for being the top student of all year 10 students who studied ART. That child has already had a passion for art since she could able to hold a pencil at her early childhood age. She loves to draw!! Their school principal knows how to communicate. I haven't heard someone talks so much about his job he loves!! I only briefly spoken to him once or twice at functions but it was the first time I heard more information about himself. He does remind me abit of the primary school principal which both seem to share the same role about the importance of education of all students. I know how important education is but telling it to teenagers is another matter!
Only this week I read an article about how do we know if our children are ready to start school. I have been there and done that with both girls. Back then one of them was ready to learn in year one while the other should of had another year at preschool. Now both are in high school and I do hope they will graduate year 12. There is alot of children in Logan who are school drop outs after year 10. Actually there is one child I heard has drop out after year 8. I don't know how the child's mother can get away with that one. By law children should be at school until at least year 10. Even then they have to have a job to go to or attend college.
Today was the day to find out if our house sale contract became unconditional. Sadly the buyer who wanted to buy this property had an unsuccessful application to their home loan. Like I said in my previous blog I suspect he might of had loan borrowing hassles if they needed an extra week for approval. I am quite disappointed it's now the second time in two months to have a contract invalid. I hope to had the house sold and be able to start fresh with my life. Now I feel no one wants our property!! Seriously I don't think this property will be sold before Christmas now. On top of that the banks are now getting tougher for applicants to apply for home loans. I think it's just a bad time of the year to sell a property anywhere here. We should of sold it about 5 years ago when we had the opportunity to. I think the house market was alot better back then too.
Summer isn't officially here yet and we already had severe storms hit SE QLD. Most of last week and on Monday there were reports of dangerous cells hit the inland and coastal areas of the state. On Monday we had a show of hail falling for about 15-20 mins. It started to look like snow was falling by the time the hail stopped.
Just realised it is now getting late. I already missed three quarters of a TV show I planned on watching tonight. Guess I will watch it online now. Have a good remainder of the week!
Tuesday 12 November 2013
Last eleven Days
Eleven days into November has passed on by very quickly. And boy! Haven't I been busy and afew things have happened. Besides watching my reality shows, crochet and doing my normal commitments, I started to make Christmas tags (instead of greeting cards this year). Most of the project is digital. Also I made fridge magnets for league bowlers as part of my little Christmas gift at the break up party later on this month.
The main reason I didn't post last week because I was waiting for the email about the sale contract to see if it has gone unconditional as yet. The sale of this property is still on contract. We got an email from the coveyancing officer yesterday stating our buyer wants to have a week's extension to get finance approval and settlement. I starting to think this buyer might have troubles of getting the finance of a home loan. On a good note, at least our building inspection was more satisfactory this time.
I enjoyed my "ME TIME" last weekend as I was home alone most of the time. Rachel went away with her father for two nights while Monique had a sleepover elsewhere. I had two sleep ins for once! Who knows when that will happen again as afew changes will be taking place in the near future.
It seems we had a good storm on Sunday afternoon. I wasn't home at the time but I did hear we might of had golf sized hail hit in our street. There are afew dents on the plastic roof of the under covered area. Going by the dent it looks more like a ping pong ball but it might of sound like golf balls hitting the roof. It didn't seem to do any other damage but our garage was flooded out again. At least there was no moving packaging on the ground this time.
We had some good news about my children's education. We received two letters and one postcard in the mail about their excellent achievements. Rachel got a postcard from one teacher to say she excel very well in two subjects ( B+ for SOSE and A for English). I take it was an assessment piece the students worked on recently. She got a letter saying she got 100 Gotchas for good behaviour at school. She will be rewarded with a prize soon. Monique got a letter asking us to attend to the Academic Award Night tomorrow as she will be receiving an award for excellence in one subject.
After a month, Monique finally happy to see her bowling plague in her hand. She bowled the perfect game on 1st October.
Better go as I have afew things to do today. Have a nice day! :)
The main reason I didn't post last week because I was waiting for the email about the sale contract to see if it has gone unconditional as yet. The sale of this property is still on contract. We got an email from the coveyancing officer yesterday stating our buyer wants to have a week's extension to get finance approval and settlement. I starting to think this buyer might have troubles of getting the finance of a home loan. On a good note, at least our building inspection was more satisfactory this time.
I enjoyed my "ME TIME" last weekend as I was home alone most of the time. Rachel went away with her father for two nights while Monique had a sleepover elsewhere. I had two sleep ins for once! Who knows when that will happen again as afew changes will be taking place in the near future.
It seems we had a good storm on Sunday afternoon. I wasn't home at the time but I did hear we might of had golf sized hail hit in our street. There are afew dents on the plastic roof of the under covered area. Going by the dent it looks more like a ping pong ball but it might of sound like golf balls hitting the roof. It didn't seem to do any other damage but our garage was flooded out again. At least there was no moving packaging on the ground this time.
We had some good news about my children's education. We received two letters and one postcard in the mail about their excellent achievements. Rachel got a postcard from one teacher to say she excel very well in two subjects ( B+ for SOSE and A for English). I take it was an assessment piece the students worked on recently. She got a letter saying she got 100 Gotchas for good behaviour at school. She will be rewarded with a prize soon. Monique got a letter asking us to attend to the Academic Award Night tomorrow as she will be receiving an award for excellence in one subject.
After a month, Monique finally happy to see her bowling plague in her hand. She bowled the perfect game on 1st October.
Better go as I have afew things to do today. Have a nice day! :)
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