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The last 14 days have been quite tumultuous¹.

Here is a snapshot of some highlights:

• Saturday Night: I decided to be more disciplined, and as apart of that I've been waking between 6:30 and 7:00am on weekdays to get stuff done
• Tuesday: I attended a funeral for a friend from the Uniting Church who passed away
• Wednesday: My sister had her daughter - which means I became an uncle
• Wednesday Evening: Had one of the most heated and challenging bible studies of the whole year
• Thursday: Left work early to inspect an okay property we had complete certainty we would get - and didn't take it
• Saturday: Spent 3 hours in a travel agent and booked my flights to South America
• Sunday: Went to a lunch to support some of our church's missionaries. Got to sure up the plans to visit them in Chile later this year and was the only person under the age of 30 at the lunch who wasn't there because their parents brought them
• Monday: Had a fiasco getting funds to pay for the tickets²
• Tuesday: Had our application accepted for a really nice place we saw on Satuday

As a result I'm getting tired. But its not a lazy "I've achieved nothing" tired, but a satisfied type of tired that you feel after accomplishing something. I think the difference is being lazy means you fall asleep anxious about all the things you haven't done, whereas after working at something you fall asleep knowing time hasn't been wasted, and the uncompleted things aren't uncompleted due to laziness, but other priorities.

I wonder how long it will continue this way. While I'm totally wrecked at the end of the day, I feel much more energised. The world is presently more colourful and textured than it's been for a long time. So I don't mind if it continues. Even indefinitely.

¹ - tumultuous is now my official word of the year

² - never buy tickets on a Saturday that have a short TTL without (a) having the cash in the bank or (b) having a credit account.

I was driving to work today and I was again impressed with the quality of work being done by the RTA.

One of the programmable overhead signs read as follows:

ACCIDENT AHEAD, LANE CLOSED
PREPARE TO MERGE
>>>>>>>>LEFT>>>>>>>>

Obviously they were thinking of the other left.

After a year living with Jarad and James in probably one of the best units of any of my friends (except maybe James and Sophie's), we've been served with an eviction notice. That's right, its over. We have 60 days left.

Fortunately the eviction isn't because we poured fanta all over the carpet or decided to draw all over the walls with texta. We are being given the notice because our lease is expiring in a week and a bit, and the owner's daughter is apparently coming back from overseas and is going to move in.

So now the hard work of inspections and moving and house warming parties begins.

Jarad has seen a nice place already, and we went for a nice walk tonight to have a look at it and some of the real estate agents. It was good to get out and reminisce about good times and the work that now has to be done.

I doubt we'll find a place as good as this one. Maybe if it has a gas stove, dish washer, 2 toilets and builtins in every room it'll come close.

and in just under 4 months my cholesterol has lowered to an acceptably healthy level. I can now enjoy a cheese and Thai again.

The doctor seemed impressed that I had dropped 1.8mmol/L (from 6.6 to 4.8) in that period of time. I don't know if that's good or not, but I don't think I'll be dying of a heart attack anytime soon (hopefully there are no sudden ironic twists now I've written that).

Apparently from the centre of Copenhagen. Questionable in terms of whether or not it actually took place, but very cool nevertheless.

I just got some spam that is in Russian, doesn't include any links and, according to my translation widget, is advertising English lessons.

Awesome.

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