I was talking to a friend the other day on why making trips out to his residence wasn’t a good idea for my budget and we got to talking about credit, my credit. It is not that I have bad credit and I am in need of any credit repair services, it is actually the opposite. I have great credit but I have a bad habit of using it way too much. I pay my bills, never miss a payment but I buy way too much on plastic. So in order that I am not house poor I’ve been paying down all the plastic and of course watching my spending.

I find it funny that he critiques my spending but in 1994 he went bankrupt himself but he would say that was a lifetime ago and that he learned his lesson.

After this…will I have learned mine or am I always going to be a slave to the ‘I must have’ thoughts that run in my head? Only time will tell.

Ever since I heard that September could be the month I move into my new home I have been going through my things and purging. As I tackle areas of my current apartment I make keep, Value Village and garbage piles. The keep stays where it is, the Value Village goes into a bag which will eventually make it to their donation depot and the garbage goes into the garbage daily so as to keep my apartment clean.

Last night and this afternoon I started on my tv stand. I own an Ikea Expedit tv stand which I have been piling lots of chotchkies. I was then thinking that if I didn’t have such a large stand I wouldn’t require said chotchkies! So I was thinking that I should start looking at smaller tv stands and then I realized that my stand will fit in perfectly with my new condo as the height of my tv stand will fit in well with the height of the condo’s walls which is 10ft.

To solve my issue, I will just buy some of the drawers, cupboards that Ikea offers for the Expedit…use the extra space for storage instead :)

I read a couple of forums that deal with new condo builds in my area and that of Toronto to peek into the lives of those moving into fresh, new builds. I wonder how their PDIs went, how many delays their building went through and what kind of commercial fitness equipment did their gym get?

There is one board I peruse that is just one condo and you only have to register to read the posts. There has been some funky going ons in their building, from ice buildup in their balcony doors and windows, appliances not working, no hot water or no water pressure.

Is this going to be the joys of new ownership? Should I have stayed away from a new build? Sounds like I am in for a bumpy ride when it comes time to take ownership (Sep, so they say).

My father is going through health issues again that bring me back almost 10 years when we found out he had degenerative disc disease. Looks like the surgery really didn’t work that well (screw is loose, yes literally) and the remaining discs look like they need to be fused too.

He also has osteo arthritis and could have prostate cancer (we should learn something more on that on Monday as he has a specialist appointment.

I was doing some internet googling on arthritis and came ankylosing spondylitis treatment. Now it has nothing to do with osteo, but rheumatoid but when I first read the name I thought it read ankle losing spondylitis. But in actuality it is Greek: ankylos means bent and spondylos is vertebrae. So I guess Dad would fall under this type of arthritis? Has he has lots of bent vertebrae.

Anyways…Dad’s been on my mind as of late. I hope to know more next week and in March (neurologist appointment).

My future home made it’s way to the 34th floor! My floor and the final residential floor of the condominium is 35 so we should be at my floor sometime early next week and I’m so excited!

There is one floor after that which is our rooftop lounge and terrace as well as mechanical. So she is almost topped out! Weeeeeeeee :)