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Well.

We bought a house.

It’s a really long story.

I’ll try.

The house we fell in love with (this one) sold before we could make an offer.
My heart broke into 1000 pieces when I found out.
We kept looking and found another house in our budget that was oozing with potential. It needed a whole lotta work, but we decided we were willing to put the work in and live in a building site as we got the money together to do each room up.
We put an offer in and it was accepted. We got as far as appointing our solicitor and I was lost in day dreams of walk-in wardrobes, knocking walls down, new carpets and interior decorating.
About 4 days later I got a call from an estate agent informing us that our little dream house was back on the market.
I felt myself melt a little.
We arranged a second viewing for the following day.
After the viewing we went for a coffee, talked over the pros and cons of both places.
There was never really any competition though, we walked around the corner to the estate agent and told him in person we wanted to buy that house.
I had to spend the rest of the day on the phone, retracting our offer on the other place, telling the solicitor to cancel all paperwork, instructing a new solicitor for the new offer. It was a pretty mental few hours.
Needless to say we’re thrilled! Our perfect little house is nearly ours! 😀
The other house we planned on buying would have made us quite a lot of money when we sold it on, but it would have taken a lot of work and we’re not really planning on moving for at least 10 years.
We’ve definitely made the right decision to buy a place that needs no work, that we can just move straight into.
We also took it as a sign when this house came back on the market and we were the first people the estate agent called.

Thursday is a big day for us, sending away all our paperwork to the solicitor to start all the searches, and meeting with our mortgage advisor to apply for our mortgage. Hopefully we’ll get the ball rolling on everything and then we’ll have the keys before we know it.

I’m so stoked.
I think I’ll actually cry if something goes wrong and it all falls through.
but lets not think about that.

It was our 5 year anniversary on the 25th.
The same day we had our second viewing and put in an offer for our house.
We’ll now always be able to say that we bought our first house on our anniversary.
How warm and fuzzy.

We celebrated a few days earlier.
We went to London on the 18th and came back to Bristol the next day.
We checked into our hotel and then went and did a bit of shopping. We had really delicious burgers with sweet potato fries for supper. We went to the pub afterwards. Ben had a few beers and I had sticky toffee pudding and custard.
That night we went to see Matilda the Musical at the theatre. It was magical.
The next day we checked out and found a cute little cafe for breakfast. Scrambled eggs, mushrooms and beans on toast made me super happy.
Then we went to Harrods and admired all the things we’ll never be able to afford. My favourite part was the pet empire where they had an entire room dedicated to dog outfits. It was hilarious!
I bought a model car, which I plan on keeping in the box for 60 years and selling for lots of money on antiques roadshow when I’m old.
After Harrods we went to the natural history museum. I loved the dinosaurs.
The most interesting thing I learned at the museum was that the density of saturn would allow it to float on water! whoa.
We were in London for about 30 hours. Lots of fun was had. It would have been much better had it not rained so fucking much though.

It was Rachael’s birthday a few days ago. I missed her night out because I was working, so she came over on Thursday night and I made the tastiest salad ever. We had frozen yoghurt and watched Ru Pauls drag race.

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