The news is in. We are moving! There is a 2 bedroom apartment waiting for us in another city – a bigger city. In just over a month we’ll be going to a bigger place and both of us are very excited!

I have a huge task ahead of me though. Master has never moved house like this and it’s been about 7 years since I’ve had to. Of course with the packing means decluttering and massive cleaning so I’m going to start as soon as I can. We have friends who just moved and are willing to give us their boxes so that will certainly help. Whatever I have I’ll need a long long list.

How to do this without spending a ton of money is my task. Frugal move, is that possible?

–luna

Yesterday we applied for an apartment. I’m hoping to hear next week if we got it or not. It would be so great to have a new place and new town. It’s so exciting. The wait is horrible. I don’t want to get my hopes up too high ya know? Cause if we don’t get it, we don’t have another apartment to look at yet.  In my head I’m already figuring out where everything will go and what furniture we’ll need since there is less kitchen storage. I’m dreaming of sitting on the balcony and watching the morning go by… or the evening.

First impressions on the apartments we looked at (still occupied) was that the floor plan is slightly smaller in person than what it looks like on paper. The dining area will need to be extended kitchen space so I’m looking to get a set like this one for seating. I’ll want to get a buffet or a hutch.

Master is not going to be shocked that I’m already shopping for furniture. He said the first purchase will be a bed and I totally agree! We’ve needed one for over a year. Of course with saving for the wedding getting things for the apartment will be under his discretion completely. A girl can dream though, right!

We can do this. It would be so exciting!

–luna

The neighbor upstairs has not come home yet. The fan still rumbles through our ceiling and causing Master’s headaches and depression. It’s really tough. The landlord wasn’t willing to do anything when I called on Sunday and I doubt he’s willing to do anything now. Master is still thinks I should call even though he said he understands why I haven’t. It’s a no win really.

Tomorrow we travel to go look at an apartment in the town we wish to move to. If we like it; which right now it just has to be slightly better than this place, we are going to put down a deposit and sign a lease. We’d move in 8/1. Master and I both are excited. He’s have an office and free basic hi-speed internet, I’d have a dishwasher, the shower would be a standard bath/shower unit, free cable and there is no pet deposit or pet rent! Sounds perfect to me. I’m not looking forward to the packing, but I sure would love to have a living room/dining room without Master’s office in it.

The location is that much closer to the BDSM community we want to be more involved in and hopefully that means making friends outside the events we attend. That would be so wonderful.

Now, we hadn’t planned on moving until after the wedding and the cost of moving will eat into our immediate wedding savings but Master says we’ll be able to make it up. The noise from upstairs pushed us to seek out another place. It was fate I think that we found such a perfect possible place. I’ll let ya know what we do on Friday’s post.

–luna

Not a whole lot to report today. The neighbor upstairs still hasn’t come home and the fan is still humming along. It’s really caused an issue with Master. He can’t stand the noise, can’t work at his desk and has hidden away in the bedroom. He’s been so cranky.

We’ve even considered moving out and that would mean less savings for the wedding. We can do it, that just means less of the fluff I’ve been dreaming of to make it even more special. Who knows what will happen. We’ve wanted to move for years; if the opportunity arises we may just take it.

–luna

This will be another miserable weekend. Our upstairs neighbor has an old box fan that when he sits it on the floor it generates a horrible hum throughout our entire apartment. It gives us both headaches and migraines. We were able to go to a hotel the last time and then talk with the neighbor on Monday when we came back. And the insane part? The neighbor is never home on the weekends. We have to suffer. So I called the landlord; he’s going to try to get ahold of him but I don’t hold my breath. We can’t go the entire summer like this. We’ll be miserable. I wish we weren’t saving for a wedding sometimes so that we could save instead for moving. It’s just not feasible to do both.

Master mentioned last night while we were watching Memoirs of a Geisha that he’d be interested in me learning some mannerisms (the speaking and graceful movements) of a Geisha but we aren’t sure what to focus on just yet. There’s so much we want to do to make D/s ours but pushing too much at a time would feel silly. He’s changed the way he’s giving me orders and I admit it doesn’t feel like orders to me. He said yesterday that I’m more submissive when he gives orders this way. I don’t know if it’s behavior or manner or that he says please more often but it works and that’s a good thing.

Going to work out again today means I’ll have worked out for 4 times this week. I plan on keeping it that way for awhile. It’s an increase of one day from the last month. It’s only a matter of time before I see a difference in my weight just by exercise alone.

Next week when I go grocery shopping again I’ll be making some changes to my food. I’m going to make vegetables the main focus of my meals again. I did that when I tried South Beach (and got sick from it so stopped). I’ll still keep carbs in my diet but they will be better choice carbs. Whole grains whenever possible and more fiber in my diet. It’s only a matter of time before my diet will change permanently.

I’m knitting reusable Swiffer mop cloths today. This will reduce cost for cleaning and be a little more green. It feels good. I’m going to the Dollar store this week too to get a couple microfiber cloths to use on the duster for when I run out of disposable ones. I’m still dreaming of getting canning supplies and learning how to home-can a lot of things so that I can develop a healthy pantry and rely less on manufactured goods. A bigger kitchen might be necessary for that some day.

–luna

Dad called last night. He is out of the hospital and doing much better. He was in good spirits too.

And I feel validated with my feelings about having no kids at our wedding; Dad said he’ll talk to sis about it when she brings it up. He agrees that the wedding I have been planning is not kid-friendly. Thank you Dad!

Master has been fighting a sinus infection. He says he got it from me, and I guess that’s true. My symptoms were completely different and I’m still not 100% but I feel for him. He’s had a bad run of sinus infections lately. It just has to suck.

I blogged at SparkPeople today about my feelings about my lack of weight loss and what I hope to do to change that (which will post here sometime today I’m sure). Master is firm in his words that if I want to lose weight faster I need to work harder at it. He’s so right of course. So, after I finish my cleaning I think I’m really going to plan out what I intend to do to make that happen. First on the list is going to the gym more then the 3 times a week I currently go.

I’m itching to do another DIY project for the wedding but before I can do that I need to get a container to hold the projects as they are finished. I completed the bouquet sash the other day; need to iron it yet but I have no where to store it. I’ll ask Master for a few bucks to get a tub to put things in.

–luna

Yesterday was one hell of a day. In order to tell it I need to start with Sunday night.

Sunday night I asked Master to cane me and he did. It was an awesome scene and once the caning was done Master took me. In a break in the action he grabbed the hitachi and started punching my ass. Oh god that was good. My tender ass and the thuddy impact was great. So very good. I think I fell asleep almost immediately afterwards!

To yesterday morning I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I was cranky and moody.  I went out to get lunch for Master and I and immediately dropped mine on the floor when I got home. I snapped and threw a real temper tantrum with jumping up and down and everything. It was insane and I couldn’t explain why I was that pissed.

Master asked me if I could be having some sub drop and while it sounded likely I wasn’t ready to embrace that. Ultimately I did though and he took good care of me.

In the afternoon my father called me. He’s in the hospital again with internal bleeding. I’m worried again about his health and I’d like to think he might move back closer to his family so that if something happens he’s not all alone. I won’t know anything for a couple days on how he’s doing.

Talked with sister that night and informed her that our wedding will be no kids zone. She blew her top and said that she was bringing her kids anyway. She said that my wedding needs a ring bearer and a flower girl and she thought they would be in the wedding. She also asked me why she hadn’t been asked to be a bridesmaid either. OMG I was just… what the heck. She said that since I’m having a traditional wedding I need these things. Whatever. I told her no and had to say several times that kids are not welcome and that I’d help with babysitting if she needed that. She basically threatened to crash the wedding then. *sigh* I’m glad I have a year to hopefully get her to respect my wishes for our wedding day.

Let me tell you I was so upset. Master said not to worry about it, he’ll take care of it.