Sad and glad

I received an exciting call yesterday: our application for an apartment in Melbourne has been accepted.

The call came at 9.30am, which is VERY early for the eldest, but I decided to yell the good news through his bedroom door and wake him up.

It is getting very real now. The eldest is heading interstate to university in just over a week’s time.

We have a lease to sign and moving boxes to pack and decisions to be make on getting everything to Melbourne.

The eldest went out to celebrate last night.

I felt slightly rattled by the day’s events. I am glad we’ve found somewhere, but sad that another child is leaving home.

I am also dazzled by how much cheaper real estate is in Melbourne. Rent is far more reasonable and so are property prices.

While we were only looking to rent, I couldn’t help stickybeaking on Donain at flats to buy.

The place above in Footscray has a price guide of $450-$495,000, which might buy you a garage in Sydney.

Isn’t the building gorgeous? It’s a former Olympic Tyres headquarters. If I had the cash for an investment property I’d snap it up!

The youngest came over for dinner last night, so I made an awesome new Recipe Tin Eats creation: Crunchy Chicken Tacos.

Deadset delicious. I couldn’t help myself and ate one too many.

We watched tellie together afterwards, then I hugged the youngest goodbye and she headed back to her dad’s place because she doesn’t like sleeping in the spare room (the bedroom I occupied when she lived with me).

Then it was just me and the dogs rattling around the apartment, a prelude of what’s to come.

I cheered myself up by booking seats at a Ponant information night about Tahiti. Not that I have any annual leave available until the 2030s.

While lots of good stuff happened yesterday, I was a bit down by the end of the night.

It’s a bittersweet time.

Song of the day: Elton John “Goodbye yellow brick road”