Move away from home

Just another couple of months and I’ll be out. Of course I’m going away to school but I’m still GOING AWAY. I just hope I can make it.

Here I am, in my first very own apartment, finally getting started on a life without my parents… I can’t say much yet, since I’ve just moved, but as far as I can tell, this is lovely. And I love this place, I just need to find a place for all my stuff and buy a sofa and a dining table, then I’d be pretty much settled. Oh the joy. :)

My old room is almost empty, everything except my computer has been moved to my new apartment now. I’m going to spend my first night there tonight, hee, I’m excited. n_n I guess I’ll be internetless for a couple of days, since a) my computer is still at my parents’ place and b) I need to go an open an internet connection for myself tomorrow. I hope to get back online soon and post news about my new life and home, so don’t desert me, I won’t be gone long! :D

Oh god this is so very exciting. ♥

My old room looks so empty, all the big furniture have been moved downstairs to wait for tomorrow. This room looks sad, all the sounds echo differently and I feel strangely hollow. I don’t have second thoughts about moving, and I’m sure I’ll be fine but it’s just… this room, its emptiness makes me nervous, and it really makes me feel I don’t belong here anymore. Home is somewhere else now. I’m scared. I never thought I’d say that, not after all the talks about moving away from home, starting my own life, living on my own. I’m sure I can do this, I have to, but I’m still so scared. And I feel so damn lonely it’s driving me insane.

The apartment has been painted now, and it looks even better than it did the first time I saw it. Of course I knew that would happen, a new layer of paint can really do wonders, the whole place looks so much lighter now and I love it. I can’t wait to actually get to move in and start decorating the place, hehe. I’ve been packing up some of my stuff today, we’re going to drop them off to the apartment tomorrow. I’m not going to get to move in properly tomorrow after all, but we’re going to move my bed and dresser on Wednesday probably, so that’s likely to be the day I’m officially going to move in. So only a couple of days more and I’ll get to start my very own life. No need to ask if I’m excited – I can’t wait! Oh, oh, and I love my new lamp! I need to post a picture of it once I’ve settled in, but it fits so well in the apartment, it’s really cute. I want to moooooove already…

I’m really happy with this apartment, it’s a nice size, the rent is reasonable (considering the location) and the city centre is just a walking distance away. Oh, and the balcony. That’s a rare thing in studios so near the centre. Happy happy happy.

I got the keys to my new apartment today, and I’m going to go check the place up tomorrow after work, can’t wait! I didn’t get to change my Saturday shift after all, but I think we’ll move my stuff there on Sunday… Exciting. :) So this really is happening.

I. got. an. apartment.

I can’t believe this. I’m going to go sign the lease tomorrow. Hopefully get to move on Saturday (if I can get someone to do my Saturday shift). Gosh, what. It’s a small studio with a balcony in Kallio (♥!) and asfgh what. I’ll be actually moving away from home? Good god, I’m not dreaming, right? They picked me? What what whaat?

Hunting for an apartment is tedious. :/ Rents in Helsinki can get really high, and usually the studios are around 20m² which is… a bit too small for my liking. Besides, I don’t want to pay over 600 euros for a place where I can barely turn around. I’ve checked out prospective apartments around Helsinki and conditions range from good to rather poor… Really, I think it’s ridiculous how high the rents are for some of the studios. Okay, sure, one has to be willing to pay a bit more if Helsinki is the desired location, the nearer the city-centre the higher the prices, but I don’t necessarily even need to live right in the middle of Helsinki. I’d like, however, to get a place somewhere near an underground station, because the underground system in Helsinki is rather good and it’s easy and fast to get to the centre even from a little farther location. :)

I’d absolutely love to get a two-room apartment with a balcony but that’s rather impossible because I can’t afford to pay what most of the landlords ask… I mean, I do need to live on something after my rent is paid, and I’d hate to be forced to live from hand to mouth, I don’t want a two-room apartment that much, a nice studio would be more than acceptable as well. I’m going to go see a couple of apartments next week, but I’m not getting my hopes up, there are so many applicants that most likely someone else gets those places, just like has happened this far. Oh well.

Okay, so this doesn’t mean anything (yet) but I just got a call from my mom and she told me my aunt’s husband’s nephew (or something like that, I don’t know, isn’t that confusing enough anyway? :D) is moving together with his girlfriend and thus is renting out his current apartment. And well, I’ll get to know more next week, but if the rent isn’t too high I could possibly move there. :) Move there. My own apartment. Own home. I know nothing is sure yet, the rent might be way too much for me, but… I mean, first I got a job, then I get informed there might be a free apartment on the market soon, how on earth does this happen, once one thing gets sorted out all the others start unfolding as well? Gosh, getting a job and getting an apartment would be a dream come true. _{(fingers crossed, eh?)}

It’s nothing in particular but no matter what, I’m going to move to my own place this year.