House

Okay - just to add to my layer of background stress (which already
involves getting the PhD submitted and waiting on results from Hubby's
tumour marker tests that he had last weekend), we're buying a house.

Or attempting to do so anyway.

Gaaah!

It's horrible. Not the house, obviously, but the feelings.

We're trying to stop the thing from going to auction so we need to be
careful about what we offer. We're currently waiting on the results of
a building inspection and our solicitor is reading over the contract -
if all is well, we'll put in an offer and hopefully they'll accept
without too much ado.

Getting a massive home loan is financially stressful. But we're also
trying to keep our lovely apartment and we're now looking for tenants
for it (anyone interested? lol). Oh, and the tenants in our other
apartment have decided to not renew their contract - so we're looking
for tenants for that property too. Plus, we're refinancing two of our
loans. Look I rarely talk about finance and money and investments on
this blog, but it's all very, very, very stressful until it's sorted
and done and all of that.

The blood vessels in my brain are hurting.

More about house-buying. I'm married to the type of person who says
comments like "I like the feel of it" and "it feels just right" and
"it's got a happy feel about it" when looking at property.

I am not that type of person.

He says to me "you look like you're not happy with the place". But I
*am* happy with it, it's lovely, it's a sweet home on a huge block,
it's got a great outlook from the backyard with beautiful views, it's
got a nice pool, it's 20mins to the city and 20mins to the beaches and
it's fine as is - no renovations needed. But I'm the type to also look
at the drawbacks too - and look at the facts. He's saying "oh - that's
the baby room" and "we can have huge parties in this backyard" and
"the room up the back with the ensuite is a great guestroom" but I
definitely find myself pulling back from personalising it at all until
I can say for sure that it's mine.

I wonder how much that says about us in the way we deal with life? He
launches in wholeheartedly while I maintain my distance until I'm
absolutely sure. I guess it's important to have that balance.

Anyways. This was a good stress-venting activity. Back to work, and
back to stressing about it!