*chanting* BOX MINES BOX MINES

HELLO FRIENDS! It has been 84 years, but we have both moved and got the internet set up at the new house, so I'm back!

House move went okay? I feel very bad about how terrible the Time Capsule of Depression storage unit was for the movers, because past!Susan had not learned all of these important lessons about decluttering or filling books literally to bursting with books, but it's done now! Everything is here! The house is about 80% box mine by volume, and that's where I've been for basically all of September.

(You think I'm joking, but Lex convinced me to stop unpacking things on Sunday at like 21:30, and I legit just sat there for ten minutes because it was too early to sleep but I couldn't remember what I did when I wasn't in the box mines!)

House itself is lovely! The previous owners left us most of the furniture (yes, I checked for bedbugs) and left labels on all of the important things, which was so kind! Unsurprisingly, the bookshelves were the first things we got up and filled, because it was the easiest way to empty a lot of boxes in one go, and it's so satisfying The house felt a bit like a hotel room at first, because it was so neutral and clean, but now that the bookshelves are up it feels more like home. ;___________________; I've been reunited with so many manga series that I haven't seen in years! I hope you're all ready for me to yell about manga like it's the early 2000s again, because I SURE AM.

There's still stuff we need to sort out – the new dishwasher wasn't installed correctly, so there was a SLIGHT flood in the kitchen, the oven is shorting out the electrics when we try to use it, and the whole 80% box mines thing – but we're getting there! Lex and I keep apologising to each other for sticking the other person with the WORST JOBS of the moving process, and then having to explain that the bit we're doing is actually the easy bit and the other person is being wronged, so I THINK that means we divided it up properly? (Lex did the cleaning and demoulding at the old place, I'm in charge of packing and unpacking, neither of us is willing to trade for love nor money.)

We're okay. Still getting used to having our own space, still trying to KonMari the Depression Boxes and Ghosts of Hobbies Past, but we're okay!

... And now I'm going to poke the inaugural piece of baking in new house. Because apparently this is my life now. Be good, be safe, I will see you all at the speed of finding where the hell my laptop wire's gone. ♥