1 Month into a different life!

WOWZA. It has been a whole 4 weeks since we moved in and exactly 1 month yesterday.

It was Saturday the 13^th and yesterday was Monday the 13^th; it was 4 weeks the Saturday just gone. So yeah that month went quickly, I’m not even sure where the heck it went! Comic is now a matter of days away and I am already planning for the autumn! Well kind of!

So I have scrapped my plan for 2015 to have a holiday. I know really I won’t have the money to save up for a holiday abroad comfortably in the next few months I am fed up of saving every penny I have and now I really don’t have to. I put all this effort into saving and being unhappy and now I achieved what I wanted and it was well worth it!

 However now I want to be able to spend my money (all be it sensibly) so I am going to book a week off for my birthday and have that as a holiday. I want to visit the Harry Potter studio tour again so I will book tickets for that and then I guess we

can just see where the week takes us. We did think of going away for a week, but it’s around £300 and the weather at that time of the year is really temperamental! Instead we will just see what the weather is like and play it day by day! Hopefully there will be some sunshine and a few trips to the beach and shopping.

The flat is really starting to feel like home now. I am starting to sleep well (I didn’t sleep great at first used to wake up very early), which on the downside means it is harder to get out of bed each morning! When I first moved I was happy to clean, I was cleaning up after myself straight away all the time that is slowly lacking haha! I thought it might, but I still enjoy tidying and cleaning to an extent as I feel very house proud which I haven’t had before! We had Matt’s Dad and Julie over on Wednesday and I cooked a big dinner for us all. The spaghetti went a little wrong, I cooked too much and also over cooked it slightly buy hey ho it tasted ok! That was nice, they were the first people to properly come over and visit over than my Mum and Dad. 

I am now counting down the days until Saturday and comic con time where I will get to meet SUCH A LEGEND and a bit of a hero to me Richard Dean Anderson!

I picked out this outfit!:

(Hell Bunny fox dress)

I got this dress back in October, it was on my birthday and me and Matt went shopping and Matt bought it for me! Alas as it was October it was far too summery a dress to wear in October so it has just sat in my wardrobe but will get its first outing this weekend!

I have already started planning the day!

• 6-6:15am get up!
• 6:50am – Leave the house and go get breakfast and McDonalds
• 7:18am – get train to London
• 8am – Arrive and join queue!

Then there is the Doctor who talk that is free I would like to attend, Richard Dean Anderson talk, Game of Throne talk and then Richard Dean Anderson photo!

I am really excited now… this year has been tough; we have had very few days out so this will be great fun! It’s the one big event I wait for every year!

Do you know what is really bad though! I am actually feeling autumn already…. The summer kind of breaks through here and then quickly vanishes even though 2 weeks ago was one of the hottest days on record. As much as I now enjoy the summer, autumn is my favourite month and I can’t wait for candles, coffees, Halloween, Christmas and jumpers. I can’t wait to experience this all in my flat, especially as we aren’t holidaying now! HOWEVER maybe if we could have a few months of warm dry weather first that would be lovely! Haha!

Well I hope the rest of the week goes quickly and I will report once Comic Con has been and gone and Con blues have set in!

New home! What a week.

So we are in and it has been considerably more stressful than I thought it would of been.

Friday I packed up at work, headed down with Lisa to my Dad's work and picked up the sofa Lisa very kindly donated to us!

I then came home and headed to Ikea for their sale but to be honest that was quite disappointing and then we were up till late packing all the last things and getting the last bits of furniture downstairs. We got to bed around 1am but I barely slept. It was like we had waited so long and then boom that was it, the room was almost empty and we were about to leave! I really didn't sleep much and was clock watching until my alarm went off, I was up and ready before 8am. We headed straight for Redhill where we enjoyed a very nice Mccy d’s breakfast and then went to the estate agents.

We from there went to the flat and meet the lady doing the itinerary, she should us around and pointed out all marks or anything that was replaced and we took a look around and zoomed off home where I picked up my Dad and we started to load the van up. The flat was nicer than I remembered and the new carpet was great. They had linoed the bathroom which was preferred above carpet and the carpet was a lovely brown colour really soft and inviting. It is amazing once it was empty how much more potential and modern it looked without the previous persons stuff in there!

Didn't take too long to load the van but we didn't fit it all in, in one go. My Mum meet us as we headed over to the flat and I went with my Mum and Matt in the van with my Dad and we started moving in. They both really liked the place. We got everything in quite quickly and then headed back to Matt's mum's house to get the last bits there, pick up Debbie and then to my Grans to pack up the last bits. We all stopped for tea and biscuits as now it was well after lunch time and no one had, had lunch. THEN it was back in the vans and cars and one final trip. 

We started unloading everything again and this time the valuables came in, it was unpleasant carrying the expensive equipment from the cars to the flat. Then I made a cup of tea for everyone and my Mum and Dad headed off to return the van and Debbie stayed washing all the kitchen stuff up while me and Matt started to arrange furniture. 

The first few days we didn't eat when we should of and days kind of blurred into each other. Tuesday I think it all got too much and we bought a second sofa, got it home and it didn't fit the Matt ended up having a huge row over the phone with my Dad and I got very upset so Tuesday was a waste of a day and I wish it never happened... We were however able to return the sofa thank goodness. But I wish I had slept through Tuesday. But things looked up from there.

We couldn't fit the table I had been given in so we bought a cool one from Argos that folds up and stores 4 chairs in it! We also got two leather foot stools instead of an extra sofa which has made the sofa we have 100x more comfy for lounging on. Working through the piles of boxes made it so hard and I felt like there was no end in sight. 

For over a month we had spent a lot of our free time packing, moving things planning. I knew the end was close but it just felt like it was taking too long. We finally got bits put away but it got to that last 'bit' where you have loads of stuff that you don't really know what to do with. 

I wanted to be finished by Monday, that was the plan but we were done on Wednesday night. I was so pleased and it gave us 4 days to enjoy it! 

Hallway and entrance.

Living Room

What I like to call nerd corner 

Bathroom

Kitchen 

Bedroom

It has been a really odd experience. I have this dreaded feeling of, OH GOD I WANT MY MUM AND DAD.... I am only 15-20 minute drive away but I do feel like I already miss them. When they left I got the same feelings of when they dropped me off at Uni on my own for the first time minus the tears. I think it is scary this is the first time I have lived completely independently, but I am really excited at the same time. 

I am so pleased with the flat we found, and I cannot wait to really get to live in it! I cannot wait for my first weekend after a week of work there too, and of course Christmas I CANNOT WAIT to decorate and make it my own! So Exciting!

Wednesday we went to Crawley and got our first foot stool (which we loved so much we bought a second one) and just finished off the flat! The people I work with were so generous and sent us a card and a gift voucher which I ordered a house phone with and bought a really nice fluffy bath mat! Thursday we had to wait in almost all day as they broadband guys came. The first guy came but couldn't do it and so another person came later in the day and it was fine. There was a a panic for a moment we couldn't get fiber broadband but it was ok! 

Friday we took ourselves off to see Jurassic World (which was AWESOME) had a bit of a day out and off. When then had to go back to Matt's mum's on Saturday to get rid of all the furniture that was left. That was a pretty grim job! But I was glad when it was done because that was LITERALLY the last thing we had to do. It did however suck up almost the WHOLE DAY which meant I really feel like we had 1-2 days off.... alas. But it was worth it because I wouldn't be been able to do all this had we not had time off. 

It also meant that when my family came over to celebrate Fathers day  on Sunday I could relax and enjoy having people over.

I was told at the beginning of all of this that moving is one of the most stressful things you can do and after this week I would inclined to agree. I have made lists and lists of things to sort out and although I took a whole week off of work I do not feel like I had any sort of holiday or time off. UGH! Now I really need a holiday.

So my plans for 2015:

1. Loving myself.
2. Working on my design work
3. Debt,
4. Having my own home!
5. Saving for a holiday!

I am proud to say that I can tick 2 of the list which were some of the bigger items! And I am starting 5 and still working on 1! Maybe if i get time this year I can work on 2 ha ha!

I hope everyone has a fab week and I can't wait to get home, the first trip to my new home.