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