House update. Settlement date is mid-May. We'll be on a bridging loan - on top of the mortgage - while we sell our apartment to help purchase the house. I don't know what it's like elsewhere (are they even called bridging loans elsewhere?) but the rates on bridging loans in Australia are high - as in 8-9%. So we want to sell our apartment asap to minimise the amount of time we're on the bridging loan. This means having the apartment open for inspection by potential buyers twice a week until it goes to auction at the end of March. This means having the apartment spotlessly clean and devoid of personal ephemera twice a week, which is itself a labour of hours every time. My wife's boss is ludicrously demanding at the moment (a whole other story I won't get into right now) which means it's me on me to take care of this while also managing a major increase in my own workload. Upshot of it is, there's not a lot of spare time at the moment.