Monday, June 16, 2014

Various Changes, and also I am the worst blogger ever

My poor blog, I haven't updated it since last October. And that post was only a soup recipe. Not that anybody really reads it (hi, 4 subscribers, one of which is my mom), but it's always nice to look back on things from years ago, in the event that I bothered to record them. In any case, I do actually have something to write about. Because I bought a house:

It's in the Mid-City neighborhood in New Orleans, and it's a slightly decrepit but sweet single shotgun, built around 1910. We call it the Voodoo Dollhouse.  It's got a wee little front yard and a back yard that's only slightly larger, and a front porch that faces West, perfect for watching sunsets. It has 11-foot ceilings and wonderful acoustics; it also has a variety of issues, from both Hurricane Katrina and long-term mild neglect.
It's been a tumultuous few months; I broke up with my long-term boyfriend, and moved out of the neighborhood we'd been in for three years. It's a lot to process.
And I became a homeowner. I did this with money I inherited from my grandparents, which makes the whole thing rather bittersweet. And while it was a lot of money for me, I could only afford a somewhat funky house in a neighborhood that's actually great, but mere blocks from one that's not so great. This house is a project, is what I'm saying. Or rather, it's a series of projects. Some of which I'll be detailing here, I think.