Category: Cable Installation

I’ve been thinking more about what to get my friend as a housewarming gift. As I said in my last blog post, she just bought an apartment which is pretty much unheard of for people my age. She’s worked so hard to save up enough money and I am so proud of her for being able to do so. I couldn’t even imagine how hard it would be to get into the property market as a young woman and beat out all the other bidders. It’s a really hard thing to do and she did it! I am so impressed with her and proud of her.

I think I’ve changed my mind about getting her a TV wall mounting service, just because I don’t know if she’ll actually want her TV on the wall. Maybe she’ll want to buy a TV unit instead that matches her coffee table or something. So I think the safer option for a gift would be buying her a wifi extender booster so that she can access the internet from anywhere in her apartment. It would suck if the internet couldn’t reach her bedroom or living room or something like that. Especially because she’s going to be living alone. She needs to have the internet to keep her entertained and ensure she can contact people easily. Having a functional internet is an absolute necessity these days. A lot of people would even go so far as to say that having access to high-quality internet is a basic human right. I would agree with those people. 

Or maybe I’ll pay for her to get a high quality residential CCTV installation. In the Melbourne CBD and surrounds it’s better to have CCTV cameras installed outside (and even inside) your home. I will feel safer knowing that she will be able to see any potential intruders when she’s safe at home. I would hate for her to open her door to a stranger.

Life is short but the ride is great. That’s what I need to keep reminding myself. Everything happens for a reason. Life can’t always be sunshine and rainbows but it’s the way we deal with the issues that come up that defines who we are. I could wallow in self pity because of what is happening to me at the moment, but every day I am actively choosing not to let it get me down. It’s not easy, let me tell you that – but if I dwell on this pain then I’m just going to be in pain all the time. Being happy is a choice and I’m making that choice. 

I haven’t always been this positive. In fact, it’s a really recent change. I’m glad that during my depths of despair I organised a professional to come to my house to perform a phone line installation. Local to Melbourne people don’t really use phone lines anymore, but they remind me of a time where I had very minimal problems. I’m nostalgic for that feeling of weightlessness, where my biggest concern was getting home from school in time to watch my favourite TV show. I didn’t have to actively work to be happy back then so I’m hoping that by simplifying my life, getting rid of my smartphone and just going back to basics, I help to improve my happiness. 

Anyway, it’s been really good having a landline. I can call my friends and family just as easily as I could with my smartphone, but now I have less of a reason to browse through social media before and after a phone call. It’s a lot better. I’m really glad that I took the plunge and invested in a landline. The communication cabling contractors who came to my house were super professional and clearly good at their jobs. It was obvious to me that they had done hundreds of phone line installations before.