The biannual update
Yeah, It's that time of the year again. I'll try to make it brief and painless >>.
So yeah, I'm buying a flat =o. It's a studio flat with no official bedroom as such and it's pretty small, but it still manages to cost £60,000. It does have a nice view of a field and a lake though and is within 5 minutes walk of the Sainsbury's, post office and all the other shops you could really need on a day to day basis. My offer of £59,500 was accepted months ago and I had to go about getting a mortgage, which proved difficult because I'd not had my job long. Currently, I'm just waiting for the solicitors to finish the surveys and give me the completion date. I've asked for it to be about a month from now so it ties in with when I'm paid. Anyway, it'll be nice to finally have my own place =).
Now, you may be wondering how it's possible to buy a £60,000 flat on a chip shop salary. Well, get this, I'M NOT IN THE CHIP SHOP =O. Ok, most of you knew that already, but I though a sense of drama was required. I finished there in about October, moved away from Coventry and moved back in with my mum temporarily to get back on my feet. I also walked straight into a job in the company for which my mum works, basically in an accounting role which will develop into something much more fulfilling over the next couple of years. There have already been talks of me going over to America for two weeks as part of relations with a company we deal with. Obviously, as a result of all these changes, I've had to lose several things. Kung fu is one of them and I don't see when I'll get back into that. Only one person has been with me through it all and that's Meghan =).
Meghan ^^. Well, we did it, we got together and proved a hell of a lot of people wrong. In many ways we proved ourselves wrong too, because even we had doubts that we'd ever manage it, especially in the situation I was in at first. The truly amazing thing however, is how well we get on when we're together. We're more compatible than either of us ever could have imagined. In many ways we're exact opposites, almost the epitome of yin and yang, but it proves the saying true; opposites really do attract >>. I've never met anyone I was so instantly comfortable in the presence of and I believe Meghan feels the same about me. From the moment we were together, it was like the world was finally right, like I felt truly complete for the first time in my life. Having to leave her, knowing that I wouldn't see her again for two months was incredibly difficult. I've had to do it twice now and I'm going to have to do it many more times before we can be together properly. Returning to life after spending time with the love of my life is really quite painful. It's not hard to integrate yourself back into your life, but you carry around an empty feeling and a knowledge that it won't go away until you are together again. The world is only beautiful when I'm with Meghan.
This summer we're planning on spending quite a long time together =). It will give us a chance to finally know for sure how well we get on when we live with each other over a longer period and in a more realistic situation. We're both pretty confident that it will bring us closer than ever before and that we'll end up feeling much more a part of each other's lives. I need to make her a part of my life, she's too much a part of my soul not to be.
So yeah, I'm buying a flat =o. It's a studio flat with no official bedroom as such and it's pretty small, but it still manages to cost £60,000. It does have a nice view of a field and a lake though and is within 5 minutes walk of the Sainsbury's, post office and all the other shops you could really need on a day to day basis. My offer of £59,500 was accepted months ago and I had to go about getting a mortgage, which proved difficult because I'd not had my job long. Currently, I'm just waiting for the solicitors to finish the surveys and give me the completion date. I've asked for it to be about a month from now so it ties in with when I'm paid. Anyway, it'll be nice to finally have my own place =).
Now, you may be wondering how it's possible to buy a £60,000 flat on a chip shop salary. Well, get this, I'M NOT IN THE CHIP SHOP =O. Ok, most of you knew that already, but I though a sense of drama was required. I finished there in about October, moved away from Coventry and moved back in with my mum temporarily to get back on my feet. I also walked straight into a job in the company for which my mum works, basically in an accounting role which will develop into something much more fulfilling over the next couple of years. There have already been talks of me going over to America for two weeks as part of relations with a company we deal with. Obviously, as a result of all these changes, I've had to lose several things. Kung fu is one of them and I don't see when I'll get back into that. Only one person has been with me through it all and that's Meghan =).
Meghan ^^. Well, we did it, we got together and proved a hell of a lot of people wrong. In many ways we proved ourselves wrong too, because even we had doubts that we'd ever manage it, especially in the situation I was in at first. The truly amazing thing however, is how well we get on when we're together. We're more compatible than either of us ever could have imagined. In many ways we're exact opposites, almost the epitome of yin and yang, but it proves the saying true; opposites really do attract >>. I've never met anyone I was so instantly comfortable in the presence of and I believe Meghan feels the same about me. From the moment we were together, it was like the world was finally right, like I felt truly complete for the first time in my life. Having to leave her, knowing that I wouldn't see her again for two months was incredibly difficult. I've had to do it twice now and I'm going to have to do it many more times before we can be together properly. Returning to life after spending time with the love of my life is really quite painful. It's not hard to integrate yourself back into your life, but you carry around an empty feeling and a knowledge that it won't go away until you are together again. The world is only beautiful when I'm with Meghan.
This summer we're planning on spending quite a long time together =). It will give us a chance to finally know for sure how well we get on when we live with each other over a longer period and in a more realistic situation. We're both pretty confident that it will bring us closer than ever before and that we'll end up feeling much more a part of each other's lives. I need to make her a part of my life, she's too much a part of my soul not to be.