is it the weekend yet?

Hooo. So glad it’s Thursday night.  This week has gone so quickly, it seems incredible that it’s nearly the weekend again.

After having all of last week off work, I came back to an absolute avalanche.  And as well, just to keep me away from clearing the paperwork from my desk, I had training to deliver all of yesterday and half of today. This was previously booked in, and it needed to be done, but it doesn’t get paperwork finished off.

I guess the good news out of this is that a) I’ve done some extra time, which I can put towards taking some time off; and b) I’ve slept really well this week, due to being knackered.  I’ve come home every day this week and just crashed.

I’m lucky in that I get a lot of enjoyment from the different parts of my job.  I really do enjoy training, and I connect well with people.  When you’re trying to see equal opportunity to a male-dominated workforce, this is critical.  I feel like I’m slowly building trust with employees, one person at a time.  It’s a slow but effective way of being able to help the people who come to me with issues that need resolution – if they don’t trust you, they don’t come to you for help.

In other news, we’ve got our new tenants for our fully furnished unit sorted out.  We signed the lease today, and got the bond and first two weeks’ rent money.  Yay!  It’s a relief.  Three more months until we need to worry about sourcing new tenants.  They’re a couple of young backpackers, and they seem like nice girls – I can’t imagine we’ll have any issues with them. And the best part is, our current tenants move out Saturday morning, and the girls move in that evening.  We don’t even lose a day’s rent.

So even though we’ll spend the majority of Saturday cleaning up and preparing the unit for the new tenants, we’ll be able to kick back and relax on Sunday, knowing we’ll be able to pay our mortgage for the next three months.  This is great news, obviously. I’m looking forward to being financially stable again.  SO mentioned the other day that the ‘buffer’ in our main account in getting bigger, so I’m not the only one who’s happy about things going well financially. It’s a relief.