Why I am moving house again?

Categories: general

Tags: Houses

Date: 25 April 2008 15:03:32

I'm sat in the middle of boxes, piles of crap and general half-packed stuff, trying to work out how I'm going to fix X about of stuff into Y boxes/bags. I've discovered I've still got a freezer half full of stuff and my new place doesn't have a freezer (yet), so will have to find a cool bag and smile sweetly at someone with a freezer. I'm not actually moving till a week today, but tomorrow I go to Manchester for 6 days. Yeah, I know, great timing. Its a coincidence, but it means the whole packing thing has had to be done a lot sooner. And to top it off, I woke up today (my main packing day) not feeling 100% with a sore throat, headache, backache and sore feet*.

Anyway, I decided to remind myself of why I'm going to all of this effort:
* To get away from the Stupid Busy Road, which almost gets me killed everytime I cross it.
* To have somewhere that feels like Home, instead of just a room where my stuff happens to be.
* To have housemates that I can socialise with and actually say more than 'hello, how are you?' to.
* To live the Other Side of the city, where most of the friend's I've made here are based, so I don't have to cycle for half an hour in order to see anyone.
* To live in a house (which has stairs!!!) rather than a flat.
* To have a garden - which even has a compost heap in it!!! (I got quite excited about this, so I've been put in charge of it! :) )

I just which I could click my fingers and have moved! On a brighter note, I've been lucky enough to have a Mini Festival of gigs this week. I've seen Show of Hands and Billy Bragg on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, and it finishes tonight with Kate Rusby! What this space - I'm planning to blog a review of all three when I'm in Manchester.

* NB: Sore feet are due to going out in silly shoes, rather than the virus that causing the other symptoms.