Well, now I can finally make this official...

As of Friday, moving preparations are now underway. My mom and stepdad had been searching for a place to move to for over a year now, but there's never really been much success. A lot of close ones, too, that fell through near the very end, but we kept trying. Now, finally ... we have our new home. For the benefit of Florida locals, it's in Homestead. Puts us world's closer to Pookin's family and our school, as well. And the community is truly a breath of fresh air, compared to where we are now. Moving Day can't come soon enough.

We're quite a way's away from that, tho. A lot of cleaning, painting, and repairing/updating, and conversion work has to happen before we can finally move in. We estimate to be in the new place by around the first or second week of November. Pics will definitely be forthcoming, as we continue to work on the place. Friday was when we finally closed on the house and got our key, and Saturday was a sort of "pre-housewarmig" get together with the family. Brought some tables, fold-up chairs, ordered some pizzas, got some drinks ... just a nice lil' impromptu gathering to celebrate the event. Then the real work began. All of today was spent cleaning the place up, top to bottom. There's still a lil' more cleaning left tomorrow, but once that's out of the way, tomorrow will also be day 1 of painting. With any luck, that should only take us a few weeks to finish completely. Baby-steps, baby-steps, baby-steps.

This is step one in what's going to be a continual series of new beginnings, as I move forward in an effort to hit the proverbial "restart" button on my life, by changing the things that don't work and nurturing the things that do. Day by day, I get closer and closer to where I truly want to be in life. And this weekend has been a first and very critical step, in that regard. But even so, it's but the first of many. Some easier than others, but all necessary, if I'm going to make the most of my life, while I still can.