The Lady Hooligan’s Page

I applied for a fourth time! R155 000… And got the loan! Cool! Now things are finally going the way I felt they should have gone to begin with! I spoke to my legalperson today. I’m going to give the developer access to my deposit. R205 000 of it! The rest of the money, plus the interest, can be paid into my investment account. Now I shall have the cash available to do my own lights, extra cabinets and more expensive tiles. Maybe even an eSpring and a nice Persian rug! Cool!

Anyway, Dawid will draw up the paperwork tomorrow. And God willing I shall be in my place by my birthday! Unfortunately that’s still a long way off, but I reckon it’ll be worth the wait!

In the meantime, there is a moratorium on the purchasing of house stuff… I’ll buy more house stuff once the apartment is actually at ceiling height! At least then I’ll be able to judge the size of the place, so that I don’t have furniture that don’t fit! PLUS I’ll have a more accurate feel for light, etc.

I guess I sometimes forget that in all this mess with the new aparment, I should actually set small milestones for myself on all goals and reward my progress, even if it’s only in small steps! After all, you never know what motivational role that simple reward could play towards reaching bigger, better goals! So, I have been looking at my goals for 2010, or - rather - what’s left of the year, breaking them up into bite size steps (with dates) and setting rewards for said steps.

So let’s see what we can achieve in the next 7 months!

This time with a look at my image in the mirror and a struggle to fasten my corduroy pants! Same eating plan, but more motivation and NO maternal sabotage! I hope. O ya, and this round I might even do some exercise!

Let’s revisit the reasons why yours charmingly (that’s ME, by the way!) wants to gain slim:

• I shall have less pain in my pelvic and knee joints and won’t twist my ankles that often.
• I’ll fit into sexy, fashionable clothes - even be able to wear a dress without looking pregnant!
• My skin will improve - less pimples, less hair.
• I won’t be out of breath so often
• I’ll be attractive to members of the opposite gender
• I’ll be confident in front of a camera and on stage!
• I shall have normal, stable blood sugar levels.
• I shall be a good ambassador for a company that focuses on health and wellness.
• I will get in and out of cars and chairs much easier.
• I shall have acquired healthy, balanced eating habits.

Once again, I’ll go the HealthPointe route. Religiously. Steps and all. And with a good record-keeping system and decent rewards!

Watch this space!

My loan has FINALLY been approved. The documentation is at a lawyer’s in town - shall go and peruse it tomorrow morning! The subsidy wasn’t taken into account, but that can be remedied. All in all, I’ll pay less for my flat per month than I do for my Internet account.

The developer wants access to my deposit money. I have good legal advice NOT to allow it, so am stalling as much as I possibly can. At one point, though, I’ll have to make a decision, and need as many safeguards in place as I can put there! It’s a catch-22 situation: I need the place built so that I can move in! And he needs the money to build the place!

Let’s all pray that the first scheme (or phase) gets released this week, and he can continue without needing my cash!

In the meantime, I simply forward all his text messages to my lawyer (they ARE useful, sometimes!) and let the two guys sort matters out. I don’t want to become entangled.

I’ve been sanding that day bed this weekend. Not a heavy sand, although it does have some tricky spots. The previous varnish/sealer is a thin brittle coat that I could remove with my fingernails, if I really, really wanted to! I’ll apply some penetrating furniture wax this afternoon.

Woodwork is relaxing, especially sanding. Once you get into the rhythm, your mind can wander off…

But then I seriously enjoy craft work…

Let’s see what this week brings…

I’m pretty much fed up with clearing all the Russian spam from my blog, so I have decided to create an entry just for them…

So if you want FREE VIAGRA and cheap cialis and all kinds of other drugs without prescription, you’re welcome to take a look at the comments on this post… Don’t even think THEY will realise that they’re the real joke on this page…

I’m pretty frustrated as I am typing here, as well as pressured from all sides. To say that I hate every moment of it, is a bit of an understatement.

I gave a hefty deposit for the property that I want to purchase. At the moment that deposit lies in a money market account somewhere. That’s good.

However, the builder wants access to that money. You can’t p… off a builder, because then you won’t get your place done.

My problem is that to “lend” him the money now would be as much of a gamble as if I have taken all that money and bought lotto tickets. There is nothing to protect ME, even with a proper loan agreement in place, until the sectional title scheme has been registered and my bank loan for the rest of the purchase price has been approved. So, on proper legal advice, I’m NOT going to give him any money until that happens.

Bit of a catch-22, methinks, but he’ll just have to build a bridge and get over it! Once the proper permissions have been granted, he can have access to as much money as he needs…

And now I feel better. Thanks, Blog!