As fate would have it, last Thursday we were given a notice by our landlord that they wanted to re-take possession in 60 days. We’re thinking that the elderly mother has died and that the middle-aged children now wanting to sell the house for a tidy sum (probably $700K plus). So since we were given notice last Thursday – and in between 3 days down in Tasmania pulling ivy off the wall – we have been busy sorting out our possessions – selling some off on ebay, giving others to charity, throwing away anything that no-one would want and packing the stuff that we really want to keep. As we won’t be moving to Tasmania for some time (because of the reasons aforementioned) we will have to find another rental property to move into. So we’re now faced with the prospect of doing two moves within 8 months. Uggh. Not exactly how we had planned it. We had planned to just stay in our current rental property for 8 months, rent out the Tasmanian house for 8 months and then move straight down to Tasmania after 8 months. It’s a horrible feeling to be moving under someone else’s terms. And it’s a horrible feeling to know that you’re going to have to have two moves within 8 months. It makes me wonder if its actually worth it – if we should just rent in Sydney and have a renter live in our place in Tasmania forever. Its funny how the best laid plans don’t always go the way you want.

Anyway, I have sold about 40 of my possessions on ebay. Not for a great deal of money but at least its stuff that I don’t have to move with me. I have also given 4 garbage bags worth of stuff to charity and have thrown out a reasonable amount of stuff too. I am a good way through packing my personal posessions. I have packed about 40 boxes already – most of those boxes are my craft supplies. Tim of course has the most amount of stuff to pack. He’s been busy listing things that he doesn’t want anymore on ebay. But he hasn’t got very far in the way of packing stuff that he wants to keep. He’s still in the “sorting out” phase. He has managed to so far throw away a huge stack of LPs that he no longer wants. I am hoping that he’ll be able to list his stuff on ebay and pack everything that he wants to keep in time for our move out date. I would hate it if he had to throw away good stuff simply because he couldn’t pack it all.

Aside from packing my worldly possessions, I am also in the full throws of preparing for the craft show that I have coming up in August. This preparation basically involves securing header tags to my products and placing sticky labels containing a barcode and price on the back of the header tags. I’ve got these grid panels and hooks that I will be using to display all the products. I have to do a mock-up at some stage to see how the displays look. The only problem is that with the boxes that contain our personal belongings and the boxes that contain the products which have been packaged for the show, there is not much room left in our house at the moment. Its hard to believe that we’re still functioning properly …

To add to all of that, I missed my brother’s birthday on Saturday. I rang him last night to say happy birthday but still felt bad about it. But he missed my birthday as well so I guess we’re even. I think birthdays are over-rated anyway. There’s something so stupid about giving someone a present and then having them return the favour by giving you a present when its your birthday. I find the same stupidity in Christmas as well. I better stop this post now because I’m starting to sound like a humbug!