Bug-Man’s Blog

Lindsay did a fantastic job of cooking that venison. It was cooked to perfection, covered in red wine and mushroom sauce with asparagus spears drizzled in hollandaise sauce. What more can you ask for?!? As for the sensations: tender, and very tasty. I think Santa keeps them to pull the sleigh and then he slaughters them in the off-season to feast upon. I know I would!

THANKYOU to Lindsay for my wonderful birthday dinner

As for the rest of my birthday, I was invited to lunch with my Dad and my Step-Mum, who took me to the Chessar Cellars (review) and we had the buffet. It was a different experience; the kind of place you expect more of Adelaide’s riff-raff to go. The buffet was small, but impressive. It had many cold dishes on display and a wide variety of dishes. They were set in very small portions and it was almost like serving your plate up full of finger food (but tasty and filling finger food!) and returning to your table.

I received a clock for my birthday and I was grateful of not a bit disappointed if only for the fact that I’ve nowhere to hang a clock. I already have one downstairs in the living room and another here in my bedroom. There aren’t any hooks anywhere else, and I’m by no means a clock collector! Freaks! Although I would love a Grandfather clock in my house, but I’d have to have the right decor for it, and I don’t know of that’ll be happening any time soon.

I will tell you what, as my life keeps progressing I wish for a couple of things I don’t know that I can have, yet… I want a house. I really do want my own home but I refuse to take a loan out of $300,000 or something, only to pay back $750,000 in interest over 30 years! Oh the pain. I can’t have children (necessarily) so setting up for a family isn’t huge on my list of priorities. I only wish I could be in my home and decorate as I saw fit, and make the decisions about the evolution of my home.

Take the garden, for instance. My Mum has always taken great pride in working in her gardens and she has done so in every house she’s owned. I have a rental property, and if I choose to invest my money into the sharemarket or whereever, I won’t be interested in landscaping or developing the garden of a rental property, will I?

The interior of a house is the same. Can I have tiled floors? No! Not unless my landlord pays for it! Can I renovate something? Can I change the fittings or hang hooks in my house, or install cabling or other niceties that you have in a home? No!! I’m not allowed to do that…

Maybe if I do invest my money wisely I’ll come out on top and in ten years I’ll be half way towards buying a house. But if I have *that* much money would I want to hold off for another ten years and make even more? I figure that once I have paid off my car I will have no debts left, so how do I handle my money? Do I put away 50% of it each fortnight? Decisions, decisions. I think there is $4600 left to pay off on the car, so I will keep pushing that debt away. It won’t be long now before it’s completely emptied.

I wrote about nothing I planned to write about tonight, and I suppose that means I was really thinking about the things that *ARE* important For the things that aren’t important:

No matter what anyone says, I think Ashley from BB06 is cute, but then, so does my Mum! Criss doesn’t. Bah to him!