Well bad news for the super huge silver ring that I bought a couple of weeks ago. I went to 4 jewellers and not one of them is willing to resize my ring! They won’t touch it with a 9 foot pole! Apparently the setting at the top is so wide and chunky that if it is resized it will make the stones pop out and make the setting all wonky. I have taken it to a local jeweller who comes personally recommended by Tim – the guy makes jewellery on the premises so hopefully he’s got the skill to be able to resize the ring without busting it. I left it with him and will pick it up next week. Only charging me $27 too – bargain!

We went to the Salvos store in Tempe on the weekend and I got 2 heavy duty whiteboards for $15 each. What a bargain. I got them to put into the storage unit and we’ll take them to our Tasmanian house. They had some super huge ones there but they were just too heavy and I didn’t think the lathe and plaster walls in the Tasmanian house would be able to hold a whiteboard so huge, so I just got a couple of the little ones. I’ll put one in the study and one in the sewing room.

Speaking of the Tasmanian house, it looks like I’ll be moving down there sooner rather than later. I had started applying for jobs down in Hobart, with the expectation that it might take me some months to find a job. However, I ended up applying for 4 jobs and got a job offer for 3. I accepted an offer yesterday. I’ll be working as a casual court monitor for 3 days a week in Hobart. I’ll be recording the proceedings in the Family Court at Hobart. Then when the court proceedings are over for the day I’ll go back to the office and type some transcripts of other court proceedings. I’m a pretty fast typist (106 words per minute) and they pay by the word so there is the potential for a reasonable living to be made working just 3 days a week (although I’d still be earning about half of what I’m currently earning here in Sydney).

I’m surprised that it didn’t take long to find a job. There’s always people that say there’s no jobs in Tasmania so that’s why I thought I would start early. I didn’t expect it to come so quick. I’m glad I got this job – it was my goal to work for 2 or 3 days. In an ideal world I would love not to have to go out to work for someone else at all, I’d love to work on my business and not have the need to work for someone else. But the next 4 or 5 months are going to be really slow for my business and I’m not sure if I could manage to pay the mortgage and eat breakfast, lunch and dinner on just the income I get from the business. Maybe after a few months I will find out if I can live on the business income alone. Already I have had to take a pay cut from the business income and I’m scaling down the amount of different products in my inventory. The business is by no means on the rocks, its just what I feel I have to do in the current economic downturn. Unfortunately, Tim is not moving with me to the Tasmanian house, he’s staying here in Sydney. He wants to stay with his current job working at Australia Post for the time being. He thinks he won’t be able to get a transfer to Hobart with his current job until August. He’ll then come down around that time. By that time I should know if I like it or hate it living in Tasmania. Who knows – I may even be back living in Sydney before he has the chance to get a transfer! I’m not sure exactly which date I’ll be leaving but Tim will be coming with me on the trip down and then he’ll stay for a few days and then go back to Sydney, leaving me all on my lonesome. I’ve never actually lived by myself and I tend to get scared by little bumps in the night so I’ll see how that goes.