Oh how I wish I could have spent more time on my projects this last fortnight, but here is how life broke down for me.
Tuesday 15th April we get notification that our house was to be rented and that the time limit for our movement was 27th of April.
Less than a week and a half to finish renovations to make the new house to lock up and water tight condition so that we can move in.
Wednesday 16th April we hire the Truck. Packing and moving on a hill which has a 1:2 climb up stairs to the house was hard enough but moving the entire house contents at a moment's notice was just an incredible feat.
As we expected, after spending the last 2 years helping renovating and moving family around twice, they are all suddenly too busy to help us move ourselves.
Life being what it is, it's the old saying in my house now validated... "It's Mark and Flick vs the world". No problem, head down and bum up lets do this... packing and moving the house contents has taken 7 days on it's own. With Arcade Machines, personal items, furnature, filling 2 skip bins and completing renovations at not only the destination but the house we were leaving also.
We lost a whole day to a long lost family reunion which saw our family seeing people thought lost for 22 years... so that was nice..
The brother in law set fire to the Truck on day 4 helping to move the arcades and getting the remote for the truck lift in the tray and bursting the control box on fire..... 3 hours later I had managed to reverse engineer the fused wiring without a single cable colour which wasn't black or charred. A complete re-wire of the hydraulic control system I now know a hell of a lot about Truck hydraulic systems. So I suppose everytime you learn something new, it can't be that bad!
Anyway, renovations at the old house, it's never been so clean. Moving into the new house with no phone, no kitchen, a bathroom which flooded on the first night, no door actually locks, full time work... Stress levels are at maximum!
The first moment I've had to sit down and do a single piece of university work is 7pm on Sunday night and I feel like the last 10 days was a blur.
I am behind... I'm corrosponding with my team and happy that by the end of the week at university before the break we were ahead... but I hoped to devote much more time to uni than I ended up with.
Let this be a lesson to anyone who reads this.... University is SOoooooo much easier when you don't have full time work, a wife, 3 mortgages! and 2 houses that need repair and rental. With the loss of our child last months... the pace of life at this moment hasn't even given us the time for this to even sink in... it's either a blessing or a curse at this time... and regardless of your point of view... the lesson I've learned is to not stop.... just keep going...
I wish I could give up work and devote more time to this course/unit... but life responsibilities come first... I have a wife and a family which come first.
I knew this year was going to be a big bite of the pie... so bare with me as I'm working 20 hours a day and have been since the beginning of January. It's catching up on me and taking it's toll, but the results will be worth it...
The second half of this year should be easy compared to the work and effort I've put into this first half....
Anyway... that's just a brief background of my life for the last fortnight.... this week I will get internet connected to the house and try to get back to normal as much as I can... if only we had a kitchen...
Mark.
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