Moving

Every post I make nowadays seems to have a big announcement. This time it's the following: we've bought an apartment!

We originally planned to rent another apartment and wait until after the wedding with buying our own place, but finding a "nice" apartment (meaning big enough, not also moldy and stinky, with a decent landlord) turned out to be near impossible. At least within the time scale we were looking at, seeing our current apartment has health hazard written all over it (which is a shame, because it's big, the landlady is a wonderful woman and it's quirky in a fun, and a bit difficult to furnish kind of way).
Well, we met with the bank and they told us "sure, you can pay us a shitload of money each month if you find a house or apartment you want".
And we did! The following day, actually. We went home from the bank, browsed through the ads and put up a list of open houses the following day. Most of them turned out to be worn down and needed a lot of work, but one apartment stood out. It's newly renovated and everything looks brand spankin' new! Gorgeous kitchen (with integrated stove and dishwasher, yay for the dishwasher and D'OH to the new stove we just bought two weeks ago), airy living room with lots of window sill for my flowers, stunning fireplace... Oh man, it's just perfect.
And we got it! We're moving in in three weeks, and by then so much has to be done.
It still freaks me out when I think of what we've done, but I hope it'll be a good thing. There are so many worries, for instance what will happen with the real estate market in the next couple of years now that it's had such an insane growth (comparison: colleague of mine bought a house four years ago and paid almost one third less than we did now for a two bedroom apartment). We'll also have to pay a lot more a month than the rent we've paid in our own apartment. But with my new job it's no problem. In fact, the bank gave us a green light on a much higher amount, so if we wanted to, we could have afforded a more expensive place also.

Well, enough babbling about the apartment. I'm sure you'll hear more about it in the following months, although I'm pretty busy at the moment with work and moving and trying to plan a wedding. After the move it'll be better... And I can decorate for halloween and then later for yule in the new apartment. I'm so looking forward to getting a tree again, and baking gingerbread cookies in my new, fab kitchen. Weeeee!