A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME ....

Last Thursday's episode of Glee - intensified my personal struggle for the past months - finding our next house and making it our next home .... saying goodbye to Richmond house that have been perfect for us for the past ten years ... always make me cry! I am already attached and in love with it ... and more now that we have sold it!

.

So we have been frantically searching for our new house and home for the past two months now... we have even spent a week in Brisbane and lodged a contract that did not materialize (after all the efforts, energy, agonizing and dreaming ...) in there.... as we have changed directions and plans for the next ten years!!!!

.

Not that we could not really afford one. The fact that we have sold our Victorian house in the city allows us to buy a better house (perhaps) - but maybe not in the city or inner city or city fringe, again without a big mortgage hanging in our asses ...

. We also have to consider a lot of important factors ... and one very important thing is that we have to have a place for our beloved children puppies ... and three of them at that. So apartments and ultra modern slick city dwellings with body corporates and pet restrictions are out of the choices. Another factor is that I don't drive so it has to be walking distance to train stations - a must !!! And then, we have accumulated over the years stuff and furnitures that need a lot of space ... so we need a bigger house too. And should be at near the city since that is where I work ...

.

The probs is that there is a shortage of supply of houses in Melbourne at the moment. (Read this ... ) And the prices have gone over the roofs and the mountain tops with increasing interest rates for the mortgages , can't believe it !!! Houses in our area that were bought for 250k ten years ago are now sold for a million !!! Can you imagine ??? What is happening? With people from overseas buying houses in Australia as their investments, the prices of property has tremendously increased for the past months. I thought selling our house was a big mistake, in the first place. But there is nothing we can do about it.

. I think it is also timing and luck - that plays a lot in buying and selling your house.... so I have been praying and lighting my candles everynight .... and wishing and praying for the universe to open up the doors for our next BEAUTIFUL, GRACIOUS AND LUCKY HOME ... . I am a Taurus and a homemaker. I love to have a house that I can be proud of aside from being comfortable in there... We also entertain and invite our friends in for tea and dinner once in a while.... . I was advised to envision my dream house - to be very specific about it and its location. To attract this house is to envision it your mind and meditate on it .... So that means I have to choose a particular house in the market!!! Print a photo of it and post it in the toilet so I can see it everyday.... That is a bit hard because the one that I would be dreaming is millions beyond our budget, ha,ha,ha!!! I think I have to make a checklist of my requirements and that would constitute my dream or reality house. . So I pray and wish for whatever is best out there for us within our budget and capacity ... . Settlement of our current house is by end of August and we have to find and purchase a place to move in by June or July - the latest. So stress, stress, stress for the past days.... We have seen and inspected at least a hundred of houses out there ... I have not been thinking and doing anything else, even blogging about it now ... (to clear my mind) and to express my intentions .... . I wish, I wish and I wish for my reality/dream house to come!