moving

My female owner says that her housemate stuff has been more or less settled. Her housemates had advertised the vacancy on the accommodations website and people have started showing interest in the room. Yah, they finally spoke on Tuesday. It is amazing how many days can go by, without you seeing your housemates. My female owner has never realised it before.

Although she would have like to have talked to them face to face from the word go, my female owner was still glad that she acted on what she wanted. In the past, she would have just let it go… and suffered in silence.

Timing is everything, she reckons. In the past, she would have never considered living with a church friend, for the fear of losing the friendship by being in too close a proximity. As long ago as last year, when she first met this person she is going to stay with, she knew that this person had empty rooms to rent. When she arrived in Brisbane this year, this person still had empty rooms to let (she has three extra rooms, you see). My female owner did not consider the house at all. Now, she says the timing is right. She is ready to move in with her (sounds like marriage ah).

Anyway, you probably know that my female owner has ambivalence tendencies. She reckons that she analyses situations too superficially, too much. Hence, she can see the pros and cons of situations and end up being torn by alternatives. When reality hits home and she realises that she is indeed moving, my female owner was filled with ambivalence.

She really loves her current location. When she first moved in, she had no idea if she made a right choice in staying at St Lucia. In fact, she was reluctant to move in. She kept delaying, until the last possible day. The location has just been a great blessing to her in more ways than one.

Not surprisingly then, my female owner feels a tinge of reluctance and sadness in having to move out (note: this is in spite of the fact that she chose to move). Maybe she dramatised things too much. She felt as if once again, she was relocating from Singapore to Brisbane, and wished that she could bring all her St Lucia friends to Sunnybank, so that they could be within reach. In fact, she never considered Sunnybank as a possible place to live. However, rising costs in St Lucia made her swing her vote to Sunnybank. Ever bad at financial management (can you believe that my female owner once considered being an accountant?!?!), she roughly estimated that she would save about $200/ month (which she was also sure that she might spend that savings on other things). So, the argument is not about saving money, but getting value for money.