Archive for October, 2010

Lifestyle choices

Right now I’m trying to find someone who wants to share in a home-loan with me. They would need a decent job, obviously.

Mum’s estate is going to sell the house at some point, and I either need to have a loan ready to buy it, or I need to move.

I hate moving house. There’s very little that I hate more.

I’ve been thinking about what if I don’t get a loan, as I don’t have two years of tax returns for my business, my borrowing capacity is fairly low.

The two choices are to rent a place, which is fairly self explanatory, or to buy a caravan.

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the latter. It would be a decently sized caravan, with shower and toilet inside, queen size bed, satellite TV, huge battery bank, solar panels, etc.

I’d own it, no chance of being evicted, and if I wanted a change of scenery, I’d just hitch up the tow vehicle, and drive off.

The idea of close to self sufficient living is fairly appealing to me. I like the idea of not owing money, not having regular bills, etc.

Don’t get me wrong, the last thing I want is to lose the family home, but I also don’t want to piss money in to someone else’s pocket, especially if I have nothing to show for it.

There’s a lot of thinking going on in my life at the moment, but I’m no closer to a decision on any of it.

I know that most of all, I want to keep this house, but I have to find someone else who wants to go halves in the loan, halves in repayments, then get bought out at the end of it (so essentially when it’s all done, they lived rent-free, and if the housing market goes up, possibly turns a small profit).

If you know anyone, let me know.

Twitter Updates for 2010-10-10

  • Sitting down at @etoxin 's house, we're about to watch 'The great race'. #
  • Fabian Coulthard rolls his Holden in the sandtrap on Conrod straight. Car disintegrates, Fabian walks away shaking his head. #
  • Turns out a $1.20 tyre valve was damaged, destroying a $400,000 V8 supercar. #
  • RT @etoxin: @7NewsSport u guys serious with these ads?? This is insane!! First no HD now more ads than racing at #Bathurst #
  • Ford in the lead for the first time since Winterbottom lost it. Pity it's probably because they haven't pitted. #
  • At @etoxin 's place watching Bathurst. There's 1700+ horsepower parked in the driveway, my car makes up 600 of it :D #
  • I predicted the Holden win yesterday. 30 laps to go, and mother nature not withstanding, it looks like I was right. #
  • CRASH YA BASTARDS! #
  • Courtney in fourth after the safety car – Ford's only hope of winning? #

Twitter Updates for 2010-10-03

  • Watching Serenity with friends. I love this movie, and am heartbroken that Firefly got canned. #

Yin goes missing

My two lovely cats, Yin and Yang are always eager to get out of the garage, which is where I keep them when I’m not at home.

They’re always at the door as soon as they hear me come home, and dart through it as soon as I open it.

This morning, Yin was nowhere to be seen, and when I got home from work this afternoon, she was still missing.
The garage is a huge mess. Everything that’s been in the way over the last year got tossed in there, so when I didn’t see Yin, I though she may have got trapped under something when it fell over.

I started tearing stuff apart, tossing it through the door in the laundry, then when that wasn’t working quick enough, I opened the garage door, and started throwing stuff all over the driveway.

Eventually I saw a shadow move, and started digging there. Shortly afterwards, I found Yin, alive and well. She was scared out of her mind, and had obviously been hiding from something.

Both cats are currently asleep on the top of the lounge, right behind my head.

Twitter Updates for 2010-10-01

  • Looking for more TV shows to watch. Have the old Sci Fi stuff, need to find new things to watch. Ideas? #
  • When I say old Sci Fi stuff, I mean Star Trek and Stargate.. #