Snatches-of-Bliss-and-Are-You-Freaking-Out-Yet?

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* Welcome *

Changed da house,
Changed da look.

BTW, my bathrobe's usually pink
and we don't have a fireplace.
Other than that,
it's pretty accurate...

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Saturday, August 27, 2005

~ A gentle stirring ~

Yes, it's been a while since I've reported anything from the marriage front.

Apart from the highs and lows of work, coming home to Tony everyday pretty much epitomises the gorgeous peacefulness I get here in Canberra. Yes, there can be the potential to get bored, although I maintain that boredom is a state of mind totally brought on by the self.

Still, these eight-and-a-bit months have seen a pretty predictable pattern emerge; we work weekdays, grocery shop Saturday, meet the church on Thursday and Sunday, have people over for a meal every two weeks, go over to someone else's for a meal as and when, curl up in bed with the laptop and watch The West Wing series for recreation.

Given the frustration both of us have been facing at work for the first seven months of the year, the monotony has been strangely welcome. I get the occasional urge to buy something pretty and pretty expensive, but other than that, I've been a good girl and have saved all that cash.

And so as it always turns out, once a state of equilibrium is more or less reached, something else comes into the picture to stir it up again.

Am NOT pregnant, in case you're wondering... but last night, Tony had a look at the AllHomes website and found a two-bedroom townhouse that we could actually afford to buy with what we earn now.

It's new (only a year old), within walking distance of the newest upcoming town centre and the bus interchange, and we calculated that the bank loan we'd have to take up would cost only $100 more than our current rent per month, to pay off. If we threw my income at it and lived within Tony's means, we'd pay off the mortgage in four years!

But what if we started a family before then?

We'd buy another house, rent out the first house so the tenants could pay off our mortgage, and start paying off the newer house over 30 years instead of squashing it into 6-9 years on my income. If I were to lose my income because of child-rearing, we'd have to think about this more closely... but it actually might just work.

Suddenly, the world of housing, investments, and all things complicated became that much more palpable.

We're still mulling over this one, but it's all very exciting...

# posted by Velle | 3:21 pm

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