And so it was that, this afternoon, the agent finally got back to us with a response from the vendors (though she had touched base on Saturday) and, well, it involves a little explanation …

Desired haus has been on market for over 4 months, passes in at auction and price keeps dropping.

With articles all over the place re: new GFC and haus prices to plummet, good luck with that plan, Princess¹.

Clearly The Universe wants us to stay in where we are and save more $$$.

But we are both a little sad.

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Removing the parsley indoors away from Joaquim has been wildly successful:

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A birthday morning walk and high tide:

And some urban decay:

Again, why do we want to move?

birthday coffee

birthday breakfast (at new [replacement for fab egg&soldier] local cafe – coffee is ToDieFor & the beanz were teh awesome!)

birthday flooers from Joan

birthday vino!

This year, I intentionally kept things fairly sedate and I think I have had the most relaxing weekend in as long as I can remember. It has been exceptional.

This year I have experienced many new, unexpected and glorious things – and there is definitely a lesson in that. As I pointed out to Don and then Heather and NotHeather at my almost-birthday lunch on Friday (and anyone else who will listen), we might feel old when we consider all we have done in our lives thus far, but, realistically, there is another complete lifetime ahead!

Carpe the diem and all that.

Woke up this morning after disturbed sleep to more of the same, the haus was shaking in an alarming manner, the rain was pouring and we were forced to drive to yoga, lest we drown on the way.

After pondering if this was what it was like to live in the Pacific Northwest (45 minutes of sunshine for the week!), suddenly around midday, the sun came out and it became a simply glorious, sparkling day!

We took advantage and walked the quite long walk to Leichhardt to cruise by the prospective neighbourhood and buy wine.

While I did wear a hat, I unfortunately neglected the sunscreen.

Ouch¹.

¹Is infinitely more red since that was taken. As an aside, who knew I was so freckly?

But we have just done the most grown-up thing of our entire lives: we’ve applied for mortgage pre-approval and made an offer for a property.

I know!

So far we have …

Pre-Mortgage loan approval: achieved!
though we were terribly worried about how my bankruptcy of [almost] 10 years ago would affect it

Offer: extended!
we’ve given them 7 days, we’ll see how it pans out

It was not too long ago that I was living in near abject poverty and subsisting on rice/tomato/onions.

I am thankful every day to be in the incredibly fortunate situation I am (we are) in.

Made splashing all that cash worthwhile!

We discovered substitute teacher has a class on Thursday evening and had planned to add that to our Monday/Saturday yoga-ness.

Unfortunately the Thursday class starts at 6pm, and while in theory I could escape the SaltMinesLimited in a remotely do-able timeframe, in practice it is only very rarely going to cut it.

Today was one of those not-cutting-it days. Arrived home rather too late to yoga, so decided I’d embrace the intent to exercise and go for a run.

Holy!Goodness!

I managed to run/walk for 40(ish) minutes, but it was arduous and awful. I question how people with any sort of mental function can enjoy running. Remind me how I used to be able to do this? Stupid ill health!

There is, however, one upside to the running – the tunes one can select to pound/plod/stagger/crawl along to!

Today it was Fluke: Goodnight Lover, which I completely and utterly adore. I have not run to this before today, but I’ve been listening to Risotto a good deal over the past two weeks and realised it was just the thing!

And a very firm running favourite from back when I was, you know, healthy: Prodigy: Invaders Must Die, Prodigy: Omen (and most of the rest of the Invaders Must Die album), which was a treadmill running fave and translates well to desperately plodding along/gasping for breath on a hard surface.

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And while I am busting out the youtube music links, you should totally listen to this, which is, without question, the best cover of all time, but pretty darn spooty to run to.

Wait, let’s not.

Suffice to say it featured all manner of horridness in addition to the DishyBoss dobbing fiasco. Indeed, the worst day I’d experienced for a good long while.

Thankfully, today was infinitely better and many things are progressing nicely.

Just after lunch Mr T informed me that DishyBoss has been sharing my (explicitly stated as such) confidences with a GM who then shares them with KingLear (otherwise known as the CEO).

Awkward at best. But to be honest, I was pretty devastated – here was someone who I thought I had a pretty solid relationship with and I could rely on.

This sort of thing makes me realise why I tend to avoid any sort of closeness with people in general.