The Rat's Journal

12:49am: Things to be discarded by us that you might want
Claim them, organise a time to pick 'em up and come grab 'em!! They'll go to Freecycle or op-shops otherwise.


19 inch CRT monitor

Exercise bike

Random toiletries

A dead candle (i.e. a big chunk of white wax)

An old but reasonable pair of sneakers - size 9 I think (could be 10) ladies

There are also 3 bookcases that need to be disposed of.


There is likely to be more stuff also.

3:20pm: Sick of all this
So we have to find a house

We've been looking for about a month now, and have now had 6 knockbacks.
We've tried offering above the asking rate.
We've tried getting in first and before advertised.

We just can't seem to get any place that will actually suit our needs.

Things would probably be a hell of a lot easier without the 2 cats though. Even though we've been renting with them in 3 properties for over 3 years now, and have never had a problem with them, they seem to be the best excuse we get for not being given a place.

The stress of having to move before the end of this year, coupled with whatever is wrong with my body that's been giving me all the pain i've been living with for the last few weeks is really driving me over the edge, and I can just see me ending up in hospital from it if things don't start smoothing out quickly.

One of the worst downsides of this is if I physically can't work, I can't look for houses either, but that wouldn't matter since if I can't work we can't afford one anyway so are even more stuffed than we currently are.

So far since getting back to find we have 60 days (um, 55 by the time we got it...) to move out by 31/12/08 I've missed over 10 days of work due to being incapable of actually getting to work, and if I was there, I'd be too drugged to be able to do anything useful anyway, or I'd be asleep. I've managed to get out and see around about 20 houses, and we've applied for at least 7 or 8 of them. We've been knocked back for all of them.

So, I've got a new christmas list.

For Christmas, I want:
- a 3x1 house, for $350/wk. Pets allowed. Must be within a reasonable distance Main St Osborne Park where I work. If I'm going to have to spend more than 45 mins driving each way to and from work, there is no way I'll last out 6 months of working.. My body just won't take that sort of punishment. It would also mean that Belinda would need to be taking even longer to get to her work which will drive her nuts.
- To know what the fuck is wrong with me and get some treatment for it.

There are only 2 things on my list cos right at the moment, nothing else actually means anything to me. If I don't have a house, then I don't really need my job. Without my health, I won't have a job either, so won't be able to afford said house.

So, now that we are down to 19 days left in this place, Things are getting a little closer than I'd have liked.