5th August
Dear Diary,
Well in my last entry I said we were counting on a good tax return and a good garage sale to get us back. I’m happy to say that both of those things have happened, and we’re now in a great financial spot to be able to make this move. And I mean GREAT. If Tim doesn’t get a job before we go, on the 1st of September, then we’ll still be alright up until October. Perhaps even mid October.
It’s all finalizing now. We’ve had our garage sale, and made a killing. And this Saturday, as Tim and I celebrate our 7th year of being together and 6th year of being married, we’re also having a Farewell BBQ.
Tim has put in his notice at Big W. He finishes up on the 21st of August. And I’m telling you now, he can’t wait and neither can I. The day he finishes up is the day that everything becomes REAL.
We’ve sat down, and we’ve created a fantastic resume for Tim. We’ve applied for 80 jobs in Melbourne so far. We’ve had 6 rejections. Three phone interviews. All of which ended in them telling Tim that he’s perfect for the job but they can’t hold the position open that long. So I’m super confident that before we go, Tim will have a job to go to.
Of course, Tim is not so confident. I want him to have faith in me and how I am feeling about this move rather than focusing on his very small percentage of rejections. We will continue to put in job applications and as the time get’s closer I am confident he will be successful.
I keep telling him it’s in the stars. It is meant to be that we move. Because if it wasn’t meant to be then none of the things we needed to happen before we could go, would have happened. We would never have got a good tax return and our garage sale would have been a bust.
The same thing happened when we decided we’d move up here. We had no money to make the move the day we decided we would go. But we once again got a great tax return and a pay out from the theft of my car a few months earlier. Without those things happening, we wouldn’t be here in the first place.
The day Tim came home and I said we should move back to Melbourne we had $300 in our savings account. And now, two months after we’ve decided to go back, we have enough money that we could survive quite easily for the next two and a bit months without a job.
This move is meant to be. And everything will be ok.