Home Sweet Home: The Moving Out Blog

If you couldn't already guess it from the title then...I have finally found someone to live with and I am now in my very own flat. Nothing majorly fancy just your typical 2 bedroom ground floor flat, 1 ensuite and an open plan lounge/kitchen/diner...the perfect size for 2.

I have been wanting to move out from my parents place ever since I returned from uni, with big plans of moving back to Bath never did I imagine myself living in the next town along from where I had grown up not to mention somewhere I was almost determined not to end up being. After failing to get a job in the beautiful city of Bath or anywhere remotely near it I landed myself a job working for a local furniture and home decor company close to home. A 30 minute commute every day and almost twice that to get back on some days I knew I just had to move closer, so here I am just a 2.5 minute walk away!! (no really)

After a busy week of packing and then a busy weekend moving everything in and building units and dining room tables...ok fine...watching people build units and dining room tables things are starting to all come together. All I need now is for my bed to arrive which I have had so many mares over trying to get delivered as it has been delayed twice now with its delivery. We have learnt about all the many bills we have to pay...I mean who even knew you had to pay for drainage?! I certainly didn't!

Expect a homeware haul to come very soon as I have had the most fun shopping for new homeware and accessories to fill this wonderful place!

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Learning about Life and Responsibilities

So amongst all of my excitement and anticipation over the past couple of years about the day that I finally get my own place which lets be honest is not going to happen until after graduation potentially for a little while (unless someone who works with a company who needs an Artworker see's this then drop me a message for my portfolio). I have spent so much getting excited and essentially designing and deciding on what it's going to look like and what I am going to buy to go in it that it has taken until now to actually realise that I have no clue about paying bills, getting the gas, water and electric's set up, finding a handy man to fix any problems I have. How do you learn this? Who tells you what you need to do? Is there someone I can call to do general DIY things around my house? I'm not stupid and I am sure I could work it out pretty easily but it wasn't until this year I found out that I need to use a special detector before putting nails into a wall to find out if there are any electrical wires going through it. As a three year university student living away from home I have learnt a lot but because I have always been in a group of which we have a lead tenant I haven't had to worry about setting any of this up...my job is to just make sure I transfer money for bills and rent to their account each month on time.

There is a great checklist over on this blog which I shall leave the link to >>> Checklist when I find out about paying bills and things like that then I shall get back to you to all so stay tuned!

Just some random brain farts coming out of my head that I have decided to write down, I haven't posted much recently (I know I still need to do my weekly PLL post) I have been incredibly busy with assignments for uni as I have had several deadlines. I have an entire week off soon, a trip to Center Parcs, 2 trips to London, with one being to see Adele at the O2 and another trip to see Little Mix in Cardiff and so I am hoping to get a few interesting posts lined up as I know that the closer I get to my dissertation deadline the less time I am going to have to focus on this blog. 

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