Take off!

It's been a crazy few months. Karthik and I had been planning to move out from our apartment into another, more spacious one, where both of us could continue to work from home more comfortably. Karthik went on a crazy spree of checking out 8-10 apartments a week, and we finally arrived at 2 that we thought we could live in for at least a couple of years. (It's a big deal, both of us are kind of fussy about our living conditions).

We almost paid up the deposit and finalized everything when we started to think. Again. What if we don't have a home, and we just shuttled between different cities for some time and lived like locals? We are restricted by the places we can go right now because of time, distance and budget. What if all those concept were more fluid for us? If we no longer paid rent, that's instant savings that can be used toward Airbnbs. Forget the finances, but what do we do with all the furniture we've bought over the years? My beautiful Sheehan bed, my favorite accent chair? My head was already in overdrive as we were discussing the plan and trying to decide. Part of me started thinking about how we'd have to fight off the parents and convince them that this isn't a terrible idea. (I still pine for their respective approvals at the ripe age of 30 something). We took three days of this back and forth. Karthik checking off all my anxiety ridden questions with seemingly simple solutions. Me adding new baseless questions knowing full well it was just my fear of the unknown making me this uncomfortable. The patient Mr. Ramesh endured through it all, and lo and behold! On 13th of October, we spoke to our landlord, letting him know of our decision. And just like that, it was decided. 

The parents took the decision surprisingly well. They were excited for us, and said, yep. Best time to do this, you have to do it while you can. 

The boss (even more surprisingly) was also on board with the idea. All good. 

And that's when the stress and sleepless nights kicked in. We only had four weekends and extremely busy weekdays to do EVERYTHING. As alway, Karthik Ramesh was chill about it. Ek din mein ho jayega? What do you have to do that's worrying you? And yep, he was right. Ho gaya. Took us a full day of moving, and an entire weekend to adjust some of our things at my in laws house and set us up for their home for a few weeks. Long story short, we moved out, we stayed with his parents for a bit, I visited my sister for a month, stayed with my parents for a bit, and then, we left our nests on 31st December!

So far, we've covered two cities. But more on that later! 

And yes, happy new year to anynody out there reading this.