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I am reading a book at the moment called Life swap, it’s just a typical trashy fiction novel, nothing special about it – but in it two women swap lives for a while to see how ‘the other half’ live and it got me thinking about why people don’t do this in real life as it seems interesting, exciting and something that is beneficial to every one involved. If two people are looking for different things and can offer it to each other, for a little while at least, then why not?

Turns out that sort of similar things do exist already though, but rather than fully swapping lives people just swap houses for a while – usually for career reasons where it’s simpler and easier for some one to be living in a different place than having to commute and if you can find two people looking to do the same thing then it makes sense for them to swap rather than each having to pay out to rent somewhere.

One such site is Christian Home Exchange. So what can they do? Well ChristianHomeExchange.com aims to help pastors who are planning a study leave to arrange an affordable clergy sabbatical by simply swapping residence with some one else in the same boat as them – it really is a clever idea that suits every one involved and I am surprised that more people don’t do it, not just clergy men and women but in other careers as well.

Although there might be some trust issues with people in other industries I guess, I can see why pastors would have no issue because lets be honest how could you find a more trustworthy profession? I know if I was going to leave my house in someone else’s capable hands a pastor would be the top of my list

I hate the office décor at work but the bosses love it so I shouldn’t think It’s going to change any time soon – I am not the only one that dislikes it though, there are others at work who agree with me and find it too dark and depressing. I wish I’d have worked there when they got it done because I would have offered to help and taken over hehe

Why is it so hard to find nice looking modern coffee tables? Most of the places I have looked either just have really old fashioned ones or ones that are a little too modern even for my tastes. I just want something sleek and simple but functional and expensive looking.

Oh well, I guess I will have to continue on with my search.

I don’t know what to do with my boyfriends sports trophies at the moment, he doesn’t want to get rid of them and I see no reason why he should – but I also don’t want them out on display in our new home. They are mainly snooker trophies he won as a child so it’s not like they are recent achievements and unfortunately most of them are pretty ugly looking.

I think I am going to get some custom mugs made for me and the boyfriend, we are moving into our first home together in a few weeks time (or whenever somewhere becomes available!) and I think it’d be really cute to get some made up – his n hers sort of thing – but really personalised. Then when we still have them in 10 years time we will have fond memories of our early days together

I wish that we had room in the garden for a pond, I have always fancied one with fish and plants and a couple of nice big pond fountains to sit out by and enjoy during the warm summer nights. Alas we don’t have the room though, we hardly have room for our own bodies never mind a pond – but maybe one day

We are going to pick up some Grohe faucets on Thursday, we have decided to do up the bathroom which is super exciting to me. As you probably know by now I always wanted to be an interior designer and love shows like Design Star and Mad About The House. I love a good DIY project and it’ll give me something to look forward to in the new year.

You know they say that moving house is the second most stressful thing, after divorce I think it is? Well is it strange that I actually enjoy moving house?

Of course it has it’s hassles, it’s a lot to organise and don’t even get me started on what a pain it can be dealing with certain companies along the way.

A few years ago when we moved we were without internet access for almost two months thanks to a series of screw ups from our new provider.

At least setting up our new Directv has always been pretty straight forward, the Internet I can just about survive without – but I would wither and die without my Direct TV – fact!

I love unpacking every thing and deciding where it’s going to go and decorating etc, I would move once per year if it wasn’t so expensive!

We are pretty settled where we are now though so unless something major changes I won’t be searching for Direct TV in Florida any time soon.

So I was just looking up manufactured homes because we are moving again, yes that’s right we are moving, again. Ugh total pain, but we have no choice, our landlord gave us our notice a few days ago. It’s a shame because we are settled here and both like it a lot, hopefully we’ll be able to find a new place near by