Here I go again….

Well, 1 week since I got back home, started work again, and even though I said in my last post I’d find it hard to slip back into a routine, that’s not the case at all. It’s been incredibly easy – and now I’m even lazier than what I was before. I haven’t left the house for the past 2 days.

I don’t think I spend enough time with people – but then the time that I do spend with them I quite often find uncomfortable, and sometimes tedious and boring. At least, with some people. I don’t want anyone who reads this in years to come thinking that I’m some kind of heartless robot, incapable of compassion – I’m not.

But it just dawned on me in one of those strange moments of clarity (interestingly enough, while I was running water to do the dishes) that there are some things I want to do, and that I can make them happen if I set them very clearly in my mind.

To start from the beginning – on Friday night I was feeling a little happy and I decided to have a few drinks – which is a lot rarer for me these days than it has been in the past (at least, drinking at home alone is rarer, I sure don’t mind going to the pub when the offer of company arises.)

Anyway, so I’m sitting at my computer, as is the normal thing for me to do, and I get the thought into my head that I want/need a bigger TV, and have done for a while. So I end up on ebay.

Well to cut a long story short, on Saturday morning I was the proud buyer of one of these (the top one.) I got it for far less than RRP (only just over half, actually), direct from Grundig Australia – when I placed the bid I really didn’t expect to win the auction but I thought hey, no harm in trying 🙂

I’m also highly likely to have a Topfield 5000 settop box/PVR on the way as well. I’m excited 😀

The point of explaining this was that I’d previously decided to start looking at property this year. Now I’m kicking myselffor not allowing for that – what I’ve spent on the TV and the STB (and what I’m also looking at buying another PC, for various reasons) is a pretty fair investment, when I’m supposed to be saving for a deposit on a house.

And it just occured to me that I’ve been talking about getting into business for myself for way too long now. Sure, I could do a bit of this and that on the side of my day job – but in practice, there are probably better ways of doing that – preferably a tried and true way, by opening a franchise of some description (again, I have some ideas in that vein.)

And it occurs to me that If I buy a house this year, and pay it off like mad for a little while, I might have enough equity to take out a fat business loan and get myself started 🙂

So, there’s some definite goals there. Perhaps I’ll find some clarity soon, and some more motivation to make it all happen.

The point aboutthe not spending enough time with people?

I figure if I actually invested some more timein the people I knew, and actually got to the point where I could call some of them friends, then they would have helped me figure this all out much sooner.

OK, well I’ll need to keep this post for future reference I think – nothing like putting something in writing to make it a reality, is there (although I guess it didn’t work for the jogging :-o)

In other news, I’ve spent the last 3 days going through all the episodes of Firefly – as a rabid Buffy fan I can see Joss’ handiwork all over it – I really enjoyed watching it and I just wish it hadn’t been axed so prematurely.

They’re making a movie though, so there’s bound to be a lot of people around waiting for that one with bated breath 🙂