sssssssssssooooooooooo i've been MIA since i PICKED UP THE KEYS TO MY NEW HOUSE!!!! my lil mind is blown!!!

i've spent the last two weeks working, packing and renovating and while i'm not quite done, we moved in last week. it's still really surreal to me and not real.

i never thought i'd reach this point or find a house in our range that was as perfect as this one is for us. obviously it isn't completely perfect and there's lots of things we'll need to do but relatively... it has a beautiful sunroom, south-facing rooms, a beautiful kept garden, these gorg vintage fixtures throughout the house, not a single trace of millenial/white/beige hell.

it's just surreal coming from 10 years of rentals and house shares and black mold. i've had such unstable living situations for the longest time, i still can't even believe within my body that this is pretty much permanent.

hopefully next week we will move in cookie because i miss him sooo much but i know the poor little mite will be confused and stressed (he's even more autistic than me n my sisters).

there's lots to do still, such as finishing our bedrooms before moving onto renovating the living room and bathroom. i've been trying to take progress pictures through the entire process so i can have a thorough before and after when we're done.

as much as i want to power through the list of things to do, it's been a really hard time, on top of also struggling with some kind of burnout (autistic or not? who know). i have to try and come back to doing my hobbies like this, or come back to finding the normal routine again, which i'm really struggling to do.