magictreehouse | 'Moving, just keep movin...' (Reply)

Well I’d like to say hello from my new home, except that I’m not actually typing this there. We’re staying at James’ house at the moment because our house has neither a bed, a sofa or heating!

I moved to Skipton on Saturday and it didn’t go completely to plan although we made it at the end. Graham and my Dad drove up and the fact that I was moving out of my entire house seemed to have escaped Graham, meaning that he hadn’t put his roof box on. On the realisation that not all of my stuff would fit in the car they had to go and fetch the roof box. Word hadn’t gotten round that I had to be there for half 11 either which annoyed me further. However, once we got going time seemed to fly by somehow and we got there, a little late maybe but in no time I’d met James at the house and we had our keys and had got into the house. Holly the estate agent seemed very excited for us too!

The rest of Sunday was spent moving some of James’ stuff in too and we managed to hike most of the stuff upstairs, out of the way so that downstairs was looking a little better. There was still a sofa in the house when we moved in which we had to take outside. We would have kept it if it hadn’t been so damn hard! We were super organised though and we went out on Saturday afternoon and bought a lovely sofa and a bed. My bank card cried afterwards. We’re having it all delivered tomorrow, I just hope it fits through the front door! Once it’s in though and we can actually stay there it’ll feel like we’ve properly moved in. Although, over the last few days we’ve moved the furniture of James’ in, stuff we’ve had donated from James’ mum and then some things we’ve bought from Focus and Morrisons today (a board game hamper, a set of shelves and a small box thing) so we’ve actually got most of the furniture we need. We just need some CD and DVD storage which is possibly the biggest thing. We’ve been doing our research though and you can get some fairly cheap but large things online.

Much of the other household stuff we managed to get from Matalan on Saturday which James’ Mum drove us too so we are pretty much kitted out. We could have probably have stayed at ours on the sofa bed if it wasn’t for the fact that we’ve got no gas. Nobody thought to tell us that we got a credit meter for our gas and therefore need to get a card for it, something which I’m irritated about not being told. However, we’ve researched connection things today so we’ll get it sorted soon enough.

I can’t wait for the point where we can just relax in our new house. It’s fairly exciting and all that but I feel a little bit like a fish out of water, so much so that I don’t feel like I can just settle into sorting the house out that much. It doesn’t help when I feel like I’m having questions about the house and things we need to do (that we know and can figure ourselves) being thrown at us so much. Maybe that’s just me. I’m sure that’ll all pass soon though. But I have to say that, on the whole, I’m really pleased with the house in general, it’s a really nice size and I really like the way that the kitchen and living room are one in once huge room. There’s lots of light downstairs and upstairs is just the right size. So yeah, I’m really pleased with how stuff is working. It’s weird though, it feels like I’m on holiday in a way while the other half of me keeps wanting to check the train times to see when I’m going home because I’m seeing so much of James! So it’s not just the house that I want settled, it’s me too really.

One thing I must mention is that me and James set up a joint account today. I keep being told what a big step this is but to me it really doesn’t feel that big. I mean, yeah it is I know but it just seemed to make sense in terms of rent and bills. We didn’t even really need to discuss it that much, it just makes sense. I guess it’s because we trust each other so much. I mean, it’s not like we’ll have access to each others main accounts, we’re just going to use the joint account as a kind of pool. The whole thing just feels like natural progression, much like moving in together.

Moving’s a big thing though and I haven’t escaped injury. I was about to dash upstairs today when I bashed my head on the piece of wall under the stairs. James heard the bump from upstairs and you have no idea how much it hurt. It bled too, although not too much thankfully. But I’ve got a huge lump on my head now and a plaster over it. James was very good in a crisis though and he looked after me. I think I gave him a bit of a scare though. I hope it goes down soon! Mr Bump never looks in pain when *he* bumps into things, maybe he’s soft because he’s used to it.