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98 Days – 14 weeks to go.

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How amazing to see my retirement countdown showing only 98 days to go today!  At the moment I’m technically on leave for a week but in reality I’m still working & attending meetings. Only one more week to go,  then holidays and then I can hand back a lot of this work and start slowing down a bit.

A few things have happened since my last post. I had my birthday and was given some beautiful quilting fabrics – (I’ll get back to posting some pics soon), we decorated our Christmas tree on the weekend, & the Christmas shopping is done. I’ve signed up for a quilting BOM next year and been poring over my sewing magazines marking projects I’d like to make.

We were going to have Christmas with family but now that Omicron is on the rise and cases in our town are on the rise we’re going to have Christmas at home again.  We can’t get our booster shots until the end of January and we had AstraZeneca so apparently our immunity is pretty low right now.

DH had alerts that he’s been in contact this last week even though we rarely go anywhere, but two weeks ago we had huge sporting event here with thousands of visitors and it was then declared a Covid exposure site.  Fortunately we are now all at home, either on leave or working from home so we’ll just stay in until we get the booster dose.

Well thats just a quick little update for now. Hoping to get back to more regular blogging soon.

 

 

Christmas Day

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We’ve  had a very different, but a very nice Christmas Day here. We had zoom calls with family, it was lovely to catch up with my son – I do miss him. We’ve watched Christmas movies – Home Alone, The Santa Clause, The Muppets Christmas Carol & listened to a few choirs while we’ve lazed about for the day.

Lunch was a lovely roast lamb dinner followed by beautiful gluten free plum pudding which was a gift from one of DH’s friends last night. A local bakery gave him the unsold baking after closing and so they dropped off a gluten free pudding & Christmas cake for me. Gosh it was good!

My hope is that next Christmas we can all be back together with family & that the world has returned to some sense of normal.

A Christmas Eve Mortgage Milestone!

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Woohoo!!  

It’s Christmas Eve here and after two months of big bills I’ve finally got back to paying extra off the mortgage. 

Today we hit another mortgage milestone – the end of Year 24 on the amoratisation table – new mortgage balance is now:

$63,834. 

I’ve been on holidays for two weeks now and its just so lovely to get up and do things in my own time. I’ve been busy decluttering, crocheting, working on my goals for next year and thinking about how good it will be to retire. 

Our Christmas plans have been changed due to the covid outbreak in NSW, We will be having Christmas at home instead of with our extended family. My in-laws are in their mid 80’s & MIL has been in hospital recently with heart problems, so it’s just better if we wait a bit longer to get together.

Today we’ll be doing some cooking, watching Christmas shows and organising zoom meetings with family for tomorrow. 

I thought I’d share this Aussie Christmas Song that all kids in Australia grow up with: Six White Boomers.