Category — Plans

Goodbyes are hard.

I know I’m only going interstate, and I know that when I was studying I didn’t necessarily see that many friends that often, but it feels like I’m going to miss them so much more when we’re interstate as opposed to just around the corner.

I caught up with many of them over New Years, and some have promised to visit. I’m not that far away- an easily justifiable distance to go on a weekend, but that takes effort.

I was informed yesterday that this year marks the ten year aniversary of some of my best friendships. I then felt slightly guilty for not baking a cake. Despite teh lack of cake, good friendships they have been, and I’m fairly sure the woman who reminded me of our anniversary is checking this sentance for spelling errors right now.

But it was my boyfriend who was hardest to say good-bye to. [Read more →]

Looks like landlords would rather have one veterinarian living in a house over three uni students.

Who can blame them? And it’s a nice house, one I could happily live in for as long as I work at my first job. I’m flying down on the 7th to move in before I  start work, and while I know posts haven’t been particularly organised, I promise they will get better after I am actually doing vet things. After all, who wants to read about someone changing all their profiles and bank details to ‘Dr’ and waiting for phone calls?

House aquired, furniture organised, boxes sent on freight, flights booked. There’s just small things to sort through now, in order to empty the room I’ve had for more than two decades.

I’m on my way.

I imagine finding your first rental property is difficult for everyone. You don’t have any tenancy references and you don’t have any experience dealing with real estate agents. It becomes that much more difficult again when you’re trying to rent somewhere interstate.

And add another level of difficulty for trying to view properties all in one day in the week before Christmas.

In a town I don’t know, with no family or friends currently staying there to guide me around, I need to find a place to spend the next 12 months. I’m new to this real estate game, but there’s an extra odd little factor to it.

I put ‘Dr’ as my title on the forms.

The conversations go something like this. [Read more →]