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[callistra]

I think having a nap is affecting my ability to sleep at night. This seems fair enough.
:-)

So, I tried not napping today. I forgot the bone weariness. Muscles that usually are fine are saying "Hey, we need to curl up and rest for a bit." My brain is staring blankly at things and wondering what they are.

Unfortunately, even if I had tried napping today, Vinnie only went down for an hour anyway. I keep staring at the clock and working out the hours until Chesh gets home. (3 hours now. *sigh*) I have told Vinnie he needs to play by himself for a bit, since he has been clingy all day long, which is why I can't just lie down and watch him play. He wants to sit on me/with me/play with my hair/poke me in the eyes in a loving manner, so sitting up is OK but lying down to rest is not.

Any day now, and Pikelet will be around about a kilo in size. A whole block of cheese!! S/he's kicking away, though less forcefully now, which is nice.
:-)

Had a productive hour while Vinnie was down. I rang centrelink, and my world imploded. I didn't just get ONE helpful person, I actually got TWO helpful people. When the first lady said "oops, wrong department," I asked her "Am I going to get someone helpful again?" in a hopeful tone of voice. It made her laugh, and she did indeed manage to find me another person, who was helpful. Thoroughly weirded out by this.

Then I rang Synergy to see about their three phase billing of power, so we can make use of peak, off peak, and shoulder rates. Looking good on that front. We just send in the form, someone comes out and does it and the bill goes onto the next bill, and we're active. Easy peasy! But maybe after we survive the roof and electrickery guy.

News on the roof... they rang YESTERDAY and said "Hey, what about FRIDAY." Now, does any one else see a problem with it? My brain goes "I'm not ready!" though I think I say something like "um, er, um, I was going to um er ring you guys and give you um er the electrician's contact details...er friday? As in ... this friday?" I'm so surprised I get them the electrician's details, and also Cheshire's numbers, so they can sort it all out. To which both the electrician and Chesh said: "WE'RE NOT READY!" One working day is not enough time. We were going to ask for a ballpark figure when I rang them, you know - a week, three weeks, a month... so anyway, we're looking at 3 weeks and then a fine day. Or two. Because the electrician has decided that it's going to take 4 hours to string four peices of cable and a electric wire across the open roof, and he won't be able to do that any faster. The roof people are a bit unhappy with this, as it now means the job is 2 days instead of one, and I'm puzzled by this because I would have thought throwing cables across a roof, drilling holes in the roof, and having help from an apprentice would mean that part was NOT a four hour job, since the rest of the job was inside the house and not on top of. Besides, the guy who did the quote for the roof said there was a maybe 4 hour window for the electrician, and that it would still be a one day jobbie... though I guess the insulation might take some time to throw up there too.

But I know nothing of these things, and at least this electrician responds to phone calls/emails/requests for information, unlike every other one we have tried to contact.

I have been decluttering heaps, and giving stuff away left right and centre. There's spaces on all of our bookshelves, and I am feeling good about getting rid of stuff. It's good. Any accountants out there? I was wondering, the banks are suggesting every one get emailed statements, right? Aren't we supposed to keep our bank statements for 7 years, as part of our tax? Or can i throw out the last 7 years of house loan statements, credit account statements, credit card statements and just keep the original and amended load documents? Cos that would save about three inches in my filing cabinet.

Comments

[kaths.livejournal.com]

I think it's seven years if it's business related, but if it's personal tax you don't need to keep it as long. Anyway, what's the chance of 'little people' like us getting audited, it wouldn't be worth their while :)

[callistra.livejournal.com]

:-)
Cool

[kaths.livejournal.com]

Umm... don't take anything I say as gospel, I could be totally wrong :)

[willowgypsy.livejournal.com]

No, I agree. I think they can only audit 'personal' accounts of people who don't earn mega-bucks back about 2 years.

I have a filing plan that included distruction after 4 years just to be safe.

But the 7 yr thing is businesses.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the tradesmen thingie. It's always a bit of a circus no matter what you do.

[sainted-aunt.livejournal.com]

For heavens sake, if you have found a NICE electrician, spread his name around!!! I once was silly enough to call one, and was told, yeah, in 3 months time! I muttered, yeah, and wait till your fridge is on the blink, I will give you the same time frame, and see how you like warm food for 3 months.
Unfortunately, he probably wouldn't call me anyhow!

[livelurker.livejournal.com]

It's down to 5 years now for personal stuff.

http://ato.gov.au/individuals/content.asp?doc=/content/30327.htm&page=3&H3

[lucretiae.livejournal.com]

If you are worried about throwing out paperwork that you might need, why not scan it to an electronic format and burn to a CD/DVD? Maybe John has a multifunction scanner/photocopier/e-mail thing at work where you can just feed a bunch of paperwork in the document feeder at the top, it scans it to PDF and then e-mails it to you (or him)?
Then you just have to keep the media in a safe place.

Glad to hear the roof is going to be sorted soon by the sounds of it.

Sorry we haven't been in touch, been hell busy. Spent last week down in Bunbury working all week while Matt was stuck up here. And did a rocket run to Brunswick on Wednesday again for work. And it's not going to get any less hectic for a while by the look of it! But that's OK coz in about 6 weeks we go on holiday for a couple of weeks up North so there will be some serious chill out time :-)

Floors are coming along nicely. Spa is just waiting for the gas plumber to finish sorting out the heater. Hopefully we should be back in our house in about a month.

And look at the time, bah I have to go to work.

Take care
K&M
xxx