Sunday, June 8, 2008 - An Update
I have had a new phone for a few months. I haven't learnt to use it properly yet. We had to buy it because the network was turned off. I liked my old mobile phone a lot. We bought it second hand when we moved here. The new phone was one of two choices at the time we thought, and the second one was withdrawn from sale. I was in an underground car park on our trip out the other day. I no, I wasn't imagining it, I definitely can't read the numbers. I had tried to demonstrate this to hubby beforehand but must have been standing in good light. I don't wear glasses except to read, and would like to be able to use the phone without glasses. Especially in an emergency. I may get the opportunity to give it to my son and get another one, but it won't be for awhile yet.
My other gripe for the week, ebay and paypal. I have been using ebay again, especially since the real estate agent suggested if we did want to sell the other new house (not sure yet, probably won't though), we would need light fittings. It seems ebay is a paypal only system now, but I haven't worked through the new system yet.
Yesterday hubby and youngest son basically finished putting the cladding on the back of the new house. The top part was removed as it was asbestos. They started this job on the 25th April, 6 weeks ago.
We were able to do another small amount of decluttering. Hubby helped me get the two youngest girls to try on clothes and to keep the piles straight in his head. We really needed teamwork to get this done. I needed his memory, I did lots of folding, lots of things, then they got put in the cupboards and two medium bags taken actually to the op-shop at the same time we were finished.
Our son has settled into his new flat. He has bought a fridge, loves the sights and events that happen on the way to work and uni. Has started a new routine with grocery shopping that seems to be working for the two of them.
Another gripe is hot water. We have a hot water service in the ceiling. The last power outage put the meter 5 hours out, as that is how long the power was out. Our meter had been sealed up again from before we moved here, we can see now why it wasn't sealed. So now I hope we have another long blackout to reset the heating time of the water heater.
The foggy mornings have disappeared for some reason. The past fews days have been very nice. I remember one winter where it lifted at 2pm. It was doing that I think last week, we had 3 hours of beautiful weather, then a colder hour before it got dark. It is getting dark very early now. We will be past the shortest day in a couple of weeks.
So basically when I went shopping a couple of days ago, was stunned, no driving hazards. No fog, no mobs of cows, and no roadworks! So different to two weeks and a month ago.
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Connie