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Quick Life Update
The trouble with hot weather where the nights don't cool down much is that upstairs, which includes my office, turns into an oven. This means I can't stand to be in here long, and so things like LJ updates don't happen. E-mail replies are rather behind again as well.
On the upside, our bedroom is downstairs and in the coolest corner of the house, so if there's any chance at all of sleep then we've got a chance at getting some.
Our hot water service heat pump has a problem, again. No longer under warranty alas. Service engineer stopped by yesterday just long enough to force the backup electric heater on, and will hopefully be back today to fix the heat pump.
The cats had their annual checkup and flu shot yesterday. They were very unimpressed at the whole car ride thing, as they always are. The vet confirmed that they are getting a bit on the chubby side and we should make sure they don't gain any more weight. Abby, who loves her chicken necks, has excellent teeth. Ella however, who does not consider chicken necks to be real food, is getting some tartar build up. So we also have to make sure Ella gets hungry enough to eat more chicken necks.
On Monday David was working from home so we could easily get to the first of our antenatal education classes in the evening. Hopefully in another month we'll feel more prepared for the business end of this whole pregnancy thing.
Got a bit of a shock last week when my phone informed me that I only have 12 weeks to go. It's not like I'm not keeping track, it's just that I tend to work in round numbers, and 12 weeks registers as three months in a way that 3 months actually doesn't.
So I've been busy trawling the internet and eBay for bargains on the baby stuff I need to buy. Off to a shop after this to pick up the car seat which they have at a particularly good sale price. I think I might be making David nervous, but I don't think there's too much more that we need in advance.
David also had a local real estate agent drop 'round for a valuation on Monday. (They're always offering free valuations, so out of curiosity this time he said yes). Ours is what you would call a 'unique' property and hard to value, but they came back with 700-750k, which I guess is pretty good given that we paid 620k only 3 years ago.
More importantly, they approved of the main renovations we've done. While they were mostly done to suit us, it's nice to know that the money spent was an investment as well. We've spent about $130k on improvements so far, and really only have the painting and minor finishing jobs to go.
On the upside, our bedroom is downstairs and in the coolest corner of the house, so if there's any chance at all of sleep then we've got a chance at getting some.
Our hot water service heat pump has a problem, again. No longer under warranty alas. Service engineer stopped by yesterday just long enough to force the backup electric heater on, and will hopefully be back today to fix the heat pump.
The cats had their annual checkup and flu shot yesterday. They were very unimpressed at the whole car ride thing, as they always are. The vet confirmed that they are getting a bit on the chubby side and we should make sure they don't gain any more weight. Abby, who loves her chicken necks, has excellent teeth. Ella however, who does not consider chicken necks to be real food, is getting some tartar build up. So we also have to make sure Ella gets hungry enough to eat more chicken necks.
On Monday David was working from home so we could easily get to the first of our antenatal education classes in the evening. Hopefully in another month we'll feel more prepared for the business end of this whole pregnancy thing.
Got a bit of a shock last week when my phone informed me that I only have 12 weeks to go. It's not like I'm not keeping track, it's just that I tend to work in round numbers, and 12 weeks registers as three months in a way that 3 months actually doesn't.
So I've been busy trawling the internet and eBay for bargains on the baby stuff I need to buy. Off to a shop after this to pick up the car seat which they have at a particularly good sale price. I think I might be making David nervous, but I don't think there's too much more that we need in advance.
David also had a local real estate agent drop 'round for a valuation on Monday. (They're always offering free valuations, so out of curiosity this time he said yes). Ours is what you would call a 'unique' property and hard to value, but they came back with 700-750k, which I guess is pretty good given that we paid 620k only 3 years ago.
More importantly, they approved of the main renovations we've done. While they were mostly done to suit us, it's nice to know that the money spent was an investment as well. We've spent about $130k on improvements so far, and really only have the painting and minor finishing jobs to go.