I moved in to the new place on Thursday! The move was pretty painless, Ryan, my new roommate, helped. The new place is SO much nicer. And the area is waaaay better too. The first night after moving in we ordered some pizza and rented videogames. Life finally feels real here. I’m not some shadow of myself trying to survive. I actually had fun, and felt like myself. Maybe it’s because until now my weekends were sitting alone in my apartment, not speaking a work until I was back at work on Monday. Making a new friend and living with someone is 2 birds with one stone! Over the weekend we caught a movie, and Ryan still hadn’t checked out downtown so we did that as well.
While we were downtown I did some window shopping and found some nice clothes I want get, namely a really nice jacket. And now that money is freed up, I’m looking into joining the gym down the street from work.
I seem to be caught up on all my expenses as well, so I FINALLY have money again. It was pretty bad for a while with all the initial moving costs (remember I moved TWICE). But money is freeing up and I have actually quite a bit of spending money left over on each check now. I finally get to see the money of my new job. And I’ve decided I’m going to park my car. I finally got around to calling to switch my car insurance to Nova Scotia and they wanted to charge me 250$ a month! I paid 150$ in Alberta. I rarely use it as it is, like maybe three times a month. And that’s usually for grocery shopping, and Ryan said I can just tag along with him when he does his grocery shopping. The odd time I do need a car I can just pay for a cab. There’s no way I’ll use 250$ a month in cabs, so I’m still saving money. Still, I love driving, never thought the day would come when I voluntarily gave up the right. We’ll see though, I can always change my mind and insure it later.
In the meantime I don’t mind taking the bus. The view from the bus stop outside our place is amazing! We living up on a big hill so we get an amazing view of Halifax. Especially at night when all the city lights are glimmering below.
The one downside of not driving is no road-trips. But I suppose I can rent a car, it’s not too expensive. Next Spring I’ll probably do that so I can go on a mini-roadtrip to Prince Edward Island, it’s only about 4 hours away. I’ve always wanted to drive across the Confederation Bridge.
But ya, life is feeling so much better out here. Having a friend and roommate, living in a nice place in a nice area, and having spending money again all add up to make things much more manageable. Life was pretty dark for a while, but I’m really beginning to enjoy life out here.
So on that note, I leave you with a video tour of the new place!
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