About two and a half weeks ago we moved house, and life has been chaos ever since. Moving house is something I absolutely hate, and to make matters worse, there was a lot of illness around it all. But everything is done now, everything we own has found a home in this house, the cats have settled in, and we have finally finished unpacking! There are still some bits to do but those can wait until we are both done with being ill. Fingers crossed that’ll be soon!
Autumn, my favourite season has finally started, but other than a bit of rain I’ve not seen much of it yet. And in all fairness, I live in England so rain is pretty common during any season and isn’t really a sign of Autumn anymore. My house is decorated for this season pretty much all year round, and I am ashamed to admit that every year I have been spending an insane amount of money on Autumn and Halloween decorations, but this year is different. I am trying to be better and more picky with my spending, and have only bought a few cheap bits and bobs that made me smile. Yesterday I had to pop into Sainsburys and when I noticed the cutest little ceramic pumpkins, pumpkin lights, and the hangers, I just knew I had to take them home with me, especially as I collect pumpkins! Then during our weekly shop at Tesco I found these cute little ceramic ghosts, and I had to take them home as well because, as odd as it might sound, they reminded me of my cats! The one with the bat wings reminds me of our black boy, Pixel, who is a little vampire, the little witch ghost is our tabby girl Luna because I always feel like she’d make the cutest little witch, and the pumpkin one reminded me of our tuxedo girl Sookie, because one of my nicknames for her is little pumpkin belly.
In the evening it’s finally time for the moment I’ve been looking forward to ALL YEAR. One of my absolute favourite things about living in England is watching The Great British Bake Off. I’ve never really been one to watch the telly, as a matter of fact, back in the Netherlands I never ever watched TV. I did always know about Bake Off, but I hadn’t seen any of it until we went to visit my in-laws one day, and it happened to be on the TV, and I’ve been hooked ever since and binged a LOT of the older seasons. It’s now one of my comfort shows, and I even got my husband to love it!
It was a nice, calm, and comforting moment after all the chaos from the last few weeks. Because not only did we have to deal with the move, very stressed cats, and being really poorly, we also had SO many appointments and so much to do that it felt like we couldn’t get a single moment of peace. So last night felt like a little bit of a reset moment where my brain realised that it’s okay to slow down now, and get back to our normal life and routine.
Tomorrow I will finally be able to do some studying as well, because we have finally finished our computer room/office. I say we, but it was absolutely 100% my husband who did all the work, I just placed some pumpkins and cosy decorations, really. My module doesn’t officially start until the first week of October, but the module website has been open since the start of this month, so I am hoping to make a start tomorrow and get ahead a little bit, just in case life happens.
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