You're listening to the Menzaria Podcast, and this is the story of where the heck I've been since October.

So for those of you who want the long story short up front, basically I have been finalizing a house purchase and organizing a move. In terms of the

podcast going forward, I'm back to being a one-woman team, so my current plan is to release

one episode per month on the main feed until we're settled in and I reassess things to see if I can up my workload again.

If you don't want the full story you can skip ahead now, two minutes and you can get right to the story.

For those who want the harrowing tale of house buying, listen on.

Firstly, I want to say that we know how lucky we are that we're in a position to purchase

a house right now.

It is incredibly difficult and honestly it has been for a long time so we're

very thankful that we've been able to do this. It shouldn't be so hard and housing is a

right that we shouldn't have to fight for but here we are. It's been a 10-year journey for us

that's involved losing our rented place, moving in with family, and then relocating to a

totally new county, so for those still listening you'll have to indulge me.

Last September we started what turned into the process of closing the sale.

We had to rush things along because if we didn't we would have had to get new life insurance policy offers and that had been a whole saga in itself the year before.

So we got keys in mid-October, but as you may or may not know, new houses aren't always sold in walk-in condition, so we had to buy

flooring, tiles, find a painter, and find a plumber, and then try and schedule all those people

as soon as possible, but without interfering with one another.

As it stands now, we're about to hit four months of owning the house, but we're still waiting to have a fully finished bathroom.

So we're slowly packing and still basically in the process of moving.

With all that going on my head has just not been in the game for the last number of months.

I decided that in order to get things done with the house I needed to give myself a pass to

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