Day 92
If I were to sum up in one word the house that is to be mine tomorrow morning at 9am, it would be … CUTE.
Cute. Not quaint and not quite darling … but cute. Very, very, very cute.
The other night as I rolled into town I drove the animals and myself past it and I kind of-sort of … panicked. It didn’t look so much CUTE … as extremely TINY! Postage stamp – dollhouse tiny. I was kind of freaking out.
But having gone through it tonight it is much bigger than it looks from outside. And besides being exceptionally clean (thank you previous owner and my apologies to my buyers!!) it is downright CUTE. No way getting around that descriptor.
Which is really and truly a good thing. A very good thing. Cute is always good.
It has a lot of potential and yet right now it is downright liveable. I don’t have to gut anything or strip off orange and gold fuzzy wallpaper (as was the case when I moved into my old house). The carpet is not gross and in need of replacement (like, sorry to say, what I just left. Again, J/G my apologies!). The walls are white and just waiting for my colorings. The appliances are nice. I am looking forward to cooking on a gas range – a new experience for this always electric range gal.
I feel so much better. I had not seen the property in person yet and well, as I know from previous home and city searches, pictures can be deceiving. I am relieved and pleased that the place … my new home … is so darn CUTE!
Tomorrow is the closing and then a day spent figuring out where my furniture will go so when the movers arrive on Tuesday they will know where to put things. It might be a challenge but I’m up for it. A clean slate. Time to change things up and move pieces to other rooms. The piece that was in the dining room might now be in a bedroom and vice versa. It will be interesting, to say the least, to see what fits and where.
I will paint the walls down the road (sage, melted coffee ice cream, and one wall will be sueded). I will make the place “mine” and “me” but in the meantime we will settle in and start breathing that different air, work on business, and plant the garden. I am so excited to have actual soil!
In any case, those of you who have been along this journey with me thus far … thank you for your kindnesses and support and unwavering confidence that I could pull this off and for your loyal and heartfelt friendship. I am so lucky in my life to have so many who love me.
Thank you for the Starbucks cards, gifts, granola bars and books. Thanks for the hugs and encouraging emails and laughter along the way. Thanks for bringing me sanity when I was practically packing in my sleep. Thanks for the yummiest lemon/poppyseed bread on the planet. I cried all the way to the state line about Yoshi – but managed, between sniffs, to eat half a loaf of that bread at the same time! Thanks for the help packing the art and for the guidance and wisdom and expertise that was given … helping hands make a load lighter. Thank you for it all.
And thank you for telling me that the new home was ME and perfect FOR me even before I saw it. And it is because it is so … CUTE!