It's late

and what's the best thing to do when you get home from a social gathering that you sort of didn't have time or energy to go to, but really needed to reconnect with the people there?

Stay up even later, listing all the things you have concerning and worrying you at the moment. :-)


So, here' s the list;

The stuff I want to take to the tourney and feast tomorrow - includes; water barrel, table, carpet, sunshades, handsewing projects, music and recorders (even some non-dance music) and the standard going to a feast stuff, and the coronet that needs fixing but I never get around to.

The work on the work project that I told you all I was going to finish last weekend, that I didn't and should really spend sunday doing.

The work situation, with the ownership and the management position and the negotiating with 4 timid people and someone who just wants to reduce her workload and stop running the company on her own. And the money. And the responsibility. And the HR coaching of the employee who could almost be me two years ago.

And the not having enough bedrooms for the children in my life to all realistically live with me and how that sucks for a reason.

So the renovation that I can't don't want to afford, the full version of which would solve my problem above. But probably not in sufficient time to really solve the problem.

My renovation:

Goes in cycles so I never get anywhere. It goes like this;

I need 5 bedrooms (I currently have 3) ,
that will cost $200K,
I only want to spend $100K (or less!),
I should build X - for $100K it will give me a nice bathroom and kitchen and a replacement bedroom for the one I'm going to make into a bathrrom, it will also give me a nicer dining space and usefully increase the value of my home (that I probably don't want to sell, ever),
but I need 5 bedrooms,
that will cost $200K

repeat ad nauseum for the past 10 years.


grrrarargh

I'm awake!

I'm glad we're only throttled off-peak at the moment.

I can't surf!

It's 5am, and I'm awake. But I can't surf!

But I can tell you that amongst the things I'm currently worried about, the woman I met last night seems to have inserted herself as something else for me to worry about.

She's lived in a defacto relationship for 16 years, had 3 children and has never had any of the family assets in joint owenership. Her name is not on the title for ANY of the multiple houses they seem to have owned. Even the house her sister put money towards buying for their mother is solely in his name.

I'm sure my mother and I talked about Sexually Transmitted Debt, when I was about 17. But this is sort of the opposite.

Now they are separated and the law doesn't recognise the common ownership of the assets that it would if they had been married. She has to go to court to get anything (despite having full custody of the children)

I think that if he wants to deny that it was a marriage, she should sue him for back paid wages. Shes been his nanny, housekeeper and escort for at least 12 years (the age of their eldest child). That's at least $200+$200+$1000 per week or $436 800.

Also,she kept on talking about how she had nothing. But didn't include her obviously fabulous work skills in her personal list of assets. And was too drunk and focussed on complaining to hear me when I tried to tell her. I just got a nod from across the table.

There. That's what's been keeping me awake. Can I go to sleep now?