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WE HAVE A HOUSE!!! Yay!!! Our second application to lease a house was successful and we are now the relieved lease-holders of a circa 1970's brick-veneerial house deep in the suburbs of Canberra!! Strike me down with a feather but I never imagined I'd find myself happy and excited about such an announcement! I mean, it's always been one of my deepest fears to be a 'suburban housewife' with a snotty-nosed kid running wild in the backyard while I prepare my calorie-controlled snacks in the kitchen in an effort to trim the spare tire I lug around my girth! But hey diddly-ho, here I am and maybe it ain't so bad!!! Ha! (I'm laughing as I write this, tongue firmly protruding through my cheek!)

We are just soooooooo relieved to have a house to call 'home' (and to spill our shipping container of possessions into!). We won't actually be moving in until early January, but we'll sign the lease and move in after a Christmas break down south with family and friends. It's a HUGE house compared to our old inner-city apartment in Melbourne. It's got a huge (sunken --ha!) lounge room, a dining room AND a family room with glass sliding doors that lead out to a paved outdoor courtyard complete with BBQ and fernery! Pity we haven't got any friends in Canberra to invite 'round for a BBQ house warming!! It has three bedrooms all with massive in-built wardrobes, a huge double garage, a large backyard with a vegetable patch (home-grown organic vege's here we come!!) and a computer controlled watering system! Ha! This house would've been THE HEIGHT of luxury and mod-cons in the suburban 1970s and although it's all a bit old and retro now, it's still in good condition and (hopefully) all works! It's got a dishwasher too! Hee-hee-hee! It's sooooooooooooo incredibly funny to find ourselves moving into this house; if you knew Jai and I at all you'd realise that this is a rather hilarious turn of events! I personally grew up in one of these brick-veneerial houses in the suburbs of a town and vowed NEVER to let it happen to me!!!! Jai and I are inner-city people at heart, we love to be close to trendy cafes and bookshops. And although we are lovers of all things old and quaint, being children of the 1970s we have an in-built cringe response to 1970s fashions. And this house still has all it's original GLARISH 70s patterned curtains. Ha! The irony is killing me. I'm going to have to pull out all my old ABBA and KISS records and the old brown cord flares in my dress-up box (for Jai of course) so we fit the part! Ha! Ha! Ha! I'll be scouring op-shops and trash'n'treasure markets for original orange tube-lamps, shag-pile rugs and green vinyl chairs so I make the 'family' room a shrine to 1970s (bad) taste! When we make some friends up here I might even be FORCED to host a 1970s fancy dress disco party! Ha! Ha! Ha!

I guess the moral of the story is that you can make the best out of any situation if you try hard enough!

Eloise, the new disco-diva of the Canberrian suburbs! Ha!



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