You've Got to Move it, move it!

 Almost 11 years ago, I packed up my 2 bedroom apartment in Lynnwood, Washington and moved to Redmond to rent a townhouse from friends. I planned on being here for about 2-3 years. I mean I was so used to moving, it seemed that in 3 years I'd be ready to pack it up. 

Now almost 11 years later...I'm moving again. The landlords want to sell by end of the year so I had to start looking for a new place to live. I knew I didn't want to live in apartments and figured if I didn't find a townhouse or condo by end of year, I'd settle for an apartment. 

But the housing Gods smiled upon me and I found this fantastic townhouse in my old stomping grounds of Lynnwood. 

Its smaller, but it hit EVERY single priority for me:

1. Hard wood floors
2. Useful/nice kitchen
3. Garage
4. Parking for guests

The kitchen had me drooling immediately when I saw it. It's perfect for all the entertaining I do. I get to be in the kitchen AND chat with people in the living room. 

It has a nice big deck off the back and I can have a BBQ, so there's that. The living room is smaller than what I have here and my current couch/love seat combo won't fit in it. The couch will, but not the two together. I'll be getting rid of the love seat. I went to Lazy Boy on Friday with Blueberry and bought two new chairs to have one on each side of the couch. 

I've never had a chair that had a pattern on it. There was a couch near by that had pillows in this pattern so I took the pillow to the couch set on the floor that is exactly like mind to make sure it  matched! And it did. These are recliners, but not like the recliner I currently have. I'm super excited. 

That's the living room. Hard to see the size of it, but you get the picture. I also bought a new coffee table. I'd been wanting one but knew I wanted to wait to see where I moved to in order to figure out the size of it. 

Now the current house is in total chaos. I forgotten how much work it was to move. I've only just started packing and I'm already exhausted! 

The demons are a bit out of sort because they aren't sure what's going on. Pookie was the master of moving. If boxes came out he knew we were moving. These two have never moved and seem a bit out of sorts. Lucy keeps hopping on my lap as if to remind me to bring her with me. 

Move in day is Sept 30th. I'll do the walk through and get the keys on the 24th. They're giving me a free week to paint if I want, which is nice. 

It's bittersweet to be moving from here. I've enjoyed living in this townhouse for so many reasons. I'll miss Redmond and my favorite grocery store across the street. All my favorite restaurants will miss my business I'm sure! 

But Lynnwood has really grown up in the last 10 years. I'm looking forward to getting to know it again. A fresh start. New house. New furniture.