This will be my fourteenth move.
What? You say! How? Why? Life...that is why!
I first moved out at 19 to Glen Iris, I was young and stupid and moved home again within 6 months. Enough said.
I moved out again a few years later with a friend and spent a lovely year in Armadale with tree-lined streets, cafes on my doorstep, and then I met a boy.
We found a gorgeous art deco apartment in East Melbourne, the suburb that I grew up in. My family all lived within walking distance and I could walk through the park to work every day. It was heaven...until that boy ruined me, he moved out. I spent another 6 months or so in this apartment, I started a business in this flat and also starred in a film whilst in this flat! When my life is in chaos I work better it would seem. Then after a stressful ordeal with a drug dealer in the building and many late-night police visits, I moved home again...
A year later I moved in with my oldest friend to Toorak! In one of my favorite apartments to date. On the second floor or a beautiful art deco building we had a living space to die for - open, airy...a dream. We spent a few years there together and both found love. Yes, that's right, in comes boy #2.
We soon found a home together and moved to Cheltenham which started my love affair with bayside! We adopted a 10-year-old springer spaniel while in this unit. He needed us but I would not realise how much I needed him until much later. Unfortunately this rental got sold, we were given 30 days' notice
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Luckily I found a new home in Mount Waverley within this period. It was around the corner from one of my besties. I got married whilst living in this house, our dog, unfortunately, passed away while living in this house and this was also the time I auditioned for both the voice and x-factor and spent a year more focussed than ever on my music. After a year we moved again. In with parents to save money for a house, back to bayside we went for a couple of months and then bought a home in Aspendale a short distance from the parents. This house has a lot of memories, unfortunately not all happy. We separated after a year and a half and 2 and a half years married. The house was sold and I moved again, this time to somewhere on my own.
The next place was defining time in my life so I'm going to spend a bit of time writing about this...
A little unit in Highett on the same street as one of my besties - this was both a tragic time but also some of the best times of my life. I'm not going to lie, I was a train wreck but having C in the same street and being a woman who had been through something similar was a godsend. Newly separated and desperately not wanting to be alone I spent a lot of time in her apartment or at a local bar where I befriended K who would become a close friend and funnily enough was also going through something similar. I wasn't alone and I had started a new life before I knew it. Sure it may have looked like a retirement village but it was home. everything I needed was within 2 minutes from my front door. If those walls could talk.
After being separated for 7 months I decided to brave a tinder date...yes you heard right.
With a flash of a smile, a beard, a half sleeve of tattoos, and more laughter and good vibes than I had experienced on a first date, I knew I was done for...I was sick at the time on antibiotics so I couldn't even drink and he will tell you he thought I was a born again Christian but I would tell you that I knew he was the one. My friend M moved in with me and for the next 6 months, We laughed a lot, shared a lot and before I knew it my home was more of a home with her in it! I also woke her up many times to drink with me when I felt like I was winning at life, we lived happily together until...
I moved in with my tinder soulmate to sunny St Kilda, close to Acland street, the beach, and a building where everyone knew everyone and we made some really good friends. Winter came and we realised that the apartment had little to no insulation and lots of gaps between the windows. In a nutshell, it was draughty...so cold!!!
In the following August, I was 3 months pregnant and our small 2 bedroom apartment was too cold and not enough space for a growing family. You guessed it, we moved,
Back to Highett to a 3 bedroom home, The house was classic - it had the best central heating I had ever experienced and instant hot water and you could set the temperature to whatever you wanted! I also knew the area well, it has the BEST BURGERS FYI, great shops, close to work, close to Southland, and because we love a challenge we also got a puppy at this time - she certainly trained us in parenthood before the real deal.
We had Frankie (our daughter). The house was full, it was beautiful and we loved it...we were home. But it didn't work out like that, the agents would not allow us to renew our lease.
So we found a little house a few blocks away with much cheaper rent and moved...AGAIN!!!
It was not ideal but it has been home for almost a year.
Then almost a year later during a global pandemic after a year of back and forth we pulled the trigger and bought our dream home down the coast!!! We move in 60 days and this one is a keeper.
17 years, 14 moves, a whole lot of life, love, tears, joy, and learning. Its been a journey but I'm happy to share it with you xo
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