house hunting update
Oct. 13th, 2021 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI have been checking Hemnet pretty regularly to see if there is anyplace for sale that I could love, at a price I can afford. I saw one that looked interesting, but a bit far away that we decided to have a look at on Sunday anyway. Its location was lovely--7 hectares, with forest, full of blueberry plants (that have lost their leaves already, of course, but one still recognises them), and a field large enough for a West Crown camping event. However, at 1.5 hours from the nearest airport I don't know that we would be able to host an event there and get people to come even from Drachenwald. The house was in much better shape than expected given that it has sat empty since 2016, and it already had things like triple-pane glass in the windows and had been drilled for "mountain warming". While the asking price made it tempting (as I could have bought it outright), the fact that it is 2.5 hours from where I work means that I couldn't actually live there during the week, and it is an hour and a half from Keldor's work, which is also too long for regular commuting. Therefore we won't be making an offer on this one, which is good as the bidding has already gone to nearly twice the original asking price (which, to be fair, is still well within the price range I would consider for a place I loved in a location I was happy with).
Tomorrow we will go look at one in a better location. This one is only 1 hectare of land, but it is in a pretty location and is about half way between Luleå and Skellefteå, which means just over 1 hour drive north to where I work, and just under one hour drive south to where he works. I don't like the idea of commuting, but at least that would be fair to both (and it would mean we could see one another in person more often than now, when we sleep in our own towns during the week and then spend weekends together).
Since that viewing is in the early evening the plan is for me to then follow him back to Skelleftehamn and stay there Friday night and then head to the Umeå area on Saturday for a gathering of the Norrlands Viking group (an informal group of mostly SCA folk who have Viking era costumes and want an excuse to wear them more than just SCA events).
However, this morning I woke up with the left side of my nose feeling stuffed up. No other symptoms, but one doesn't go to the gym or to work during a pandemic with any symptoms at all, so I cancelled my morning acroyoga and let work know I wasn't coming in. I will see how I am feeling later in the day and if it was just me being paranoid, or if I am actually fighting off some sort of virus and the minor feeling of blocking is a sign of the battle.
Since I am home I am taking advantage of the time--I have stripped the bed and am washing the sheets, and I have been making good progress on figure 4 for that paper that I haven't worked on in weeks.
Tomorrow we will go look at one in a better location. This one is only 1 hectare of land, but it is in a pretty location and is about half way between Luleå and Skellefteå, which means just over 1 hour drive north to where I work, and just under one hour drive south to where he works. I don't like the idea of commuting, but at least that would be fair to both (and it would mean we could see one another in person more often than now, when we sleep in our own towns during the week and then spend weekends together).
Since that viewing is in the early evening the plan is for me to then follow him back to Skelleftehamn and stay there Friday night and then head to the Umeå area on Saturday for a gathering of the Norrlands Viking group (an informal group of mostly SCA folk who have Viking era costumes and want an excuse to wear them more than just SCA events).
However, this morning I woke up with the left side of my nose feeling stuffed up. No other symptoms, but one doesn't go to the gym or to work during a pandemic with any symptoms at all, so I cancelled my morning acroyoga and let work know I wasn't coming in. I will see how I am feeling later in the day and if it was just me being paranoid, or if I am actually fighting off some sort of virus and the minor feeling of blocking is a sign of the battle.
Since I am home I am taking advantage of the time--I have stripped the bed and am washing the sheets, and I have been making good progress on figure 4 for that paper that I haven't worked on in weeks.