I’ve been back a work full time a few weeks now. Its fairly quite at the moment so I’m spending time cleaning out years of old ‘stuff’, catching up on paperwork & catching up with colleagues. Our workplace has done well with enforcing social distancing & increased cleaning so I feel OK being there. Our local area still has only one case of covid and so far NSW seems to be keeping the numbers down. 

I have not been doing anything interesting – just plodding along with work & home, keeping warm and watching a lot of TV. We had a lot of snow last weekend, but it didn’t stay on the ground where we live. I’m looking forward to the warmer weather so I can get outside more and start walking again.

Our real estate agent contacted us about increasing the rent on our unit. We discussed a new lease with our tenants with a small increase but they are looking to buy a house so they do not want to sign a lease. We’ve decided to just leave the rent as it is for a few months and we’ll put it up when they leave. They have been excellent tenants, probably the best we’ve had so we’re happy to give them some time to find a house even though our agent tells us we could give them notice and probably get $20 – $40 more per week – the last thing they need while house hunting is to have to find a new house – money isn’t everything. 

We’ve had a really good month of throwing money at the mortgage, despite the fact my second job is very late with my pay again.  Its easy not to spend at the moment!