Thursday 15th January 2009

Well hello there again,

The last few days have been interesting so I thougt I would update my blog and let you all know just how mad our lives are at the moment.

So we start with Monday, Monday was fine a work day like any other and then I get told that our potential buyer (Another farmer from South Island) can't make up their mind whether to purchase or not and our tenants are hot on my heels to move their stock on to our land and move in to the house on 3rd April. So to keep everyone sweet I say yes to the new tenants and they can put stock on our land and biy our cows from us which saves us a headache - HOWEVER if the house sells before the tenancy commences then they take their stock, pay for ours and take ours with them as well.

This leads us in to Tuesday when the tenant rings me in a panic and has just cut the lock off our gate to put his 20 calfs in the paddocks that he didn't know was arriving ! So negotiating continue bearing in mind I never said the house was theirs but ho hum, he is buying our cows and that is keeping me focused $5k towards our empty pot.

Anyway so my day at works ends and we go home. Mark was in a less than pleasant mood, oh life is so depressing, I wish I was dead and all this crap to which I ignored, shut myself in the study and proceeded to sell more stuff on Trade Me. During this time I decide to pay our finance agreement off on our bed, forgetting that online banking needs a code that gets text to your cellphone, needless to say the dog had eaten our cellphone a couple of days prior to this and I had only replaced the phone yesterday.

So I manage to get the phone working and no signal, so I ran out the house, jumped in the truck, drove like a mad thing down the highway and got the banks text message, spun round in the middle of the highway and went home, put the code in only to find it had expired but the bank had done the transfer.

So guess what off I go again, while Mark sits on his butt on the sofa, I'm well impressed as you can tell !

I get back and same thing only now we are $10,000 over drawn opps...so I managed to get hold of the bank and they reversed it and sorted it out for me.

Mark then went to bed and I went in the shower, when I got out I proceeded to advise him that I was not impressed with his lack of support and I poked and prodded him for as long as I could stay awake for just so he knew i was annoyed and then I fell asleep !

This morning, he is a different man, he realises it is better to support and help me even if it is just asking the question "Hun can I help you with something" than risk the roth of Tracey !

Lesson learnt, and we are blissfully happy again ! (til tomorrow).

Tonights mission is to mow the lawns, cook dinner, sweep the barn as they hay was sold today, drag some troughs in from the paddocks and log on to Trade me where I have 30 items finishing tonight which will need to be distributed tomrrow.

I already have two appointments at 5pm in Mitre 10 carpark to drop off items and get paid, people will start thinking I'm a dealer at this rate. I turn up, wait, get paid and hand over goods !!!

xxxx