sundaysalon

Welcome to the Sunday Salon – Real Life Edition

Not that blogging and reading and books aren’t real life, but what I’ll gab about here today just seems more, er….realer.

I don’t tend to talk about much of my life outside of books here but a few of you know bits and pieces about me so I thought I would share some good news!  Anyway, since I moved up to DC from Florida a couple of years ago I’ve been living with my sister in her home.  It’s been a totally sweet deal where I get the whole “in-law” apartment  in the basement and we share the kitchen.  She’s been completely generous in allowing me to live here paying only utilities and I’m extremely grateful.  But over the past six months or so it’s been increasingly tense.  We live our lives in two very distinct ways and it’s been difficult for me to manage some of those differences as it’s been difficult for her to respect some of my choices.

Living here was originally intended to be a temporary gig until I got a job and it’s gone on much longer (by a year and a half) than we’d agreed upon.  At any rate, it’s become increasingly clear that it’s time for us to go our separate ways, living space wise anyway.

So this weekend I went out and got me a new place to live!  I’m very excited (and admittedly a bit nervous) about striking out on my own again.  I took possession of my new apartment (which is only a couple miles from where I am currently so I’m still close to brother/neice and sister) yesterday and will slowly move things over the next few weeks until I only have furniture left to go. Then I’ll hire big burly men (who are hopefully cute too!) to do all the heavy lifting.

What does this ultimately mean for my blog? Only one kinda sad thing (well sad more for me than you) I’ll have to curb my book buying habits.  It won’t be likely that I’ll be able to buy books every weekend — I’ll have to go down to every other week and minimize my impulse buys.  Kinda a drag, I know but really I could read all the books currently sitting in my TBR and still have enough to get past a year.  That and the quality of life situation is much more important at this point!

I might try and do a small little moving journal here over the next few weeks as me and my books relocate I haven’t decided.

Wish me luck!