House hunting

I’m spending the weekend in the city where I’ll be moving, looking for a house. Not to buy…the idea of buying a house in a city where I don’t even live yet is way too scary. I need to get to know neighborhoods, and take my time for that. But I do want a house, not an apartment, so I’ve had a bunch of appointments to look at rental houses. I think I may have found one I like.

It’s a three-bedroom, with a really nice kitchen, full basement, garage, a…I don’t know what to call it, an extra living room, I guess? It’s just a regular-sized house, but it’s so much bigger than anything I’ve lived in before. All the places we’re looking at feel like total mansions to me. I’ve never lived in anything other than an apartment before, even as a kid. Never had a yard, or a garage, or very much extra space. And when I look at some of these houses, I can picture Baby being happy there. The house I’m leaning toward picking, I could make one of the living rooms into a playroom, and then still have an extra bedroom to use as a guestroom. And it’s super cheap.

So anyway, I’m really starting to like the idea of moving. I’m still really torn with the whole love situation thing, but that’s going to be there whatever city I’m in.

I’m back to not having a wedding date again. Not because of any fight or anything, just because of the move. Noah wanted to move it up so we could get married in our current city with all our friends and everything, but I really didn’t want to do that (all aside from the uncertainty and stuff, who wants to be planning a wedding and a move at the same time?). So the plan right now is to get moved and settled, and then invite friends to come to the new city for the wedding. It’s only a couple hours away, and we could have some sort of picnic thing in the yard. I’m not used to having a yard. Or room for guests.

I’ve been hauling Baby around with me all day to look at houses while Noah spent some time with his future coworkers, so when we got back to the hotel and got Baby to bed, he said he’d stay with her so I could go out. So I went to a show all by myself, which is totally something I would not have been able to do a year or so ago. But I didn’t feel self-conscious being there by myself at all, it was just fun.