The Norty Borderline

It has been a little while since I posted a blog. As I have said in previous blogs, my living situation was not exactly suitable, and I have found a place to live on my own. Therefore, I have been rather busy moving and getting my little place set up. I also haven’t had internet and am finally getting that connected this week.    I have certainly missed having internet, as I use FaceTime to communicate with my daughter. I think the first thing I will be doing when it is connected is calling her! I am missing her quite a bit and I know that she misses me too, but I am absolutely loving where I am, so I can never see me moving back to where all my family are. I also think that my daughter and I needed time apart to really appreciate each other again. Plus, she can always come for a visit.    I bought myself a MacBook. I haven’t spent this type of money on myself since my daughter was born. Being a single mother, I always put her needs before any of mine and she would a...

When I decided to move interstate, I thought that I had planned really well and that everything would go rather smoothly. How wrong was I?! LOL Firstly Covid made it rather difficult as we had to do RATs and then also get a border pass etc. I had to organise my Dads because he was travelling up with us with a trailer with mine and my best friends stuff in it.  My best friend came back down for Christmas and was picking her eldest son up as well to bring back up here. So she was helping me pack up the house and get everything on the trailer with me, so that my Dad wasn't doing too much lifting. There was just a slight problem. He turned up Monday morning with the trailer and my best friend and I assumed that he would leave the trailer in my garage, so that we could pack it as we are still packing stuff. But nope! Not with my Dad! He wanted to pack the trailer right there and then and then put a tarp over the trailer and took the trailer back to his place! We were exhausted by the en...