Car Disaster!

The car is one month out of warranty and the automatic transmission has packed it in. What a pain! The car is going to be be off the road for a week and is going to cost a fortune. Fortunately the car is leased so that will soften the financial blow somewhat as the cost will be before tax and effectively spread across 2 years. Having no car for a week is a pain and having to fork out cash on a car that is one month outside it's warranty is a pain too, but there are worse things in life.

NRMA has a 15% off deal with Thrifty so we have hired a car for that period.

Apart from that all is good! In fact Meeks and I were just saying last night, that things are good. We are all coming out of our colds, although Mitch still has a bit of a cough. Meeks' working arrangements have changed a bit with her doing a bit more of what she was doing before she left which she finds more interesting, which is great and I just got a really good appraisal at work, which is also good news.

Mitch is walking more and more. He is almost able to get up from the flat and walk now. You can see him wanting to do it but not quite being able to, it's very cute. He's going through a very affectionate stage. He'll be playing by himself and then he'll look at you and come over and give you a cuddle and then go back to what he was doing. Very, very cute! I have tomorrow off so maybe I'll take some more photos.

In other news, we got a new notebook computer for home through work. As a result we're downsizing our study area. We sold our massive desk (no we don't know why we ever bought one so big) on ebay (our first ebay sale!) and are going to buy a smaller one and some shelving (to keep important things out of Mitch's reach) from Ikea and rearrange the study a bit to make better use of the space available.