Hi Everyone,

Sorry it has been a while since we last updated, not much has been happening the last few weeks.
We are all settled into the house and Darcy is busy with work.
I have just started a vegie garden (planting carrots, snow peas and herbs) and a few potted flowers. I also found a free bike in our street and cleaned it up and works fine, so I can finally ride on the tracks and explore the area a bit better.

Tonight Darcy and I went and watched the fireworks over lake Burley Griffin for Skyfire 2012, an event that's on each year, i'm not sure what the occasion is but it was fun.

Bye for now,

Alice

Hi everyone!

We have had a very busy week but we are finally in our house and settling in. All of our belongings from storage arrived late on Monday so we spent the rest of the day and night unpacking boxes and moving furniture. We now have a million empty boxes, plastic bags and packaging paper left over.
While unpacking we noticed we have too much of a few things, we have about 30 mugs in our cupboard and a heap of storage containers. We have a nice kitchen but there isn't really enough storage places.

We spent last weekend spending up on a tv, a washing machine, a tv unit and a fridge. We managed to get good deals on all of them (I got my haggle on) so we were pretty happy with that!

While the house is good and what we were looking for, we have run into a few problems. First, the shower is either broken or something isn't working properly. But basically we can't shower because of the lack of water that comes out of it. We've let the agent know but they are being slow in getting the plumber out! Another annoying thing is right outside our bedroom there is a street light so the room isn't exactly dark, but we are getting used to it.

Darcy just got his first pay check and he is pretty happy!

I've been lucky enough to land myself a job at Deakin Veterinary hospital in Deakin, just south of the city. I start on Monday and for the time being I will be working twice a week at the clinic as it is a small place, but i've got to start somewhere. I'm hoping to find another casual job to fill in the extra days, lucky we live only minutes away from a massive Westfield where i've already seen positions advertised.

Darcy and I did our first big shop at Woolworths tonight, we spent over $300 but our fridge, freezer and pantry are well stocked and ready to go.

It's been raining here for the last few days and will continue for the next couple of days, so the weather is pretty miserable and it's rather cold even though it's around 18 degrees. There have been flood warnings but hopefully we won't be affected that much.

I think that's all for now, there are a few pictures below of the house, enjoy!

Our temporary curtain