We Win!!

Apartment, check! Job, check! On Thursday, the property management company we'd been waiting to hear back from turned us down. I was pretty upset, everything felt hard, I found out Friday that I was hired for a part time checker job at Fred Meyer - I had to drive to Corvallis to the social security office and get a new social security card, so by the time I finished my hiring paperwork on Friday it was too late to go look at any other apartments. We looked at a few over the weekend, but then Boone took sick. It was a long weekend of waiting for property management company #2 to open on Monday, even knowing I had a job and was halfway there.

So this morning I went down and got keys and looked at a few units in our price range, I went back to to office and explained that I had just been hired and didn't have a Fred Meyer paystub yet, and the lady said "You guys want to move in tonight?". BAM! Just like that. Came back at four to sign the paperwork, went to the electric company to get our stove (and everything else) turned on, made dinner at our new house around six! SO EXCITING! Still a few things in our hotel room and not everything put away, but our cars are empty. EMPTY!

Tomorrow through Saturday I work about 8-5 doing training. We have the hotel through Saturday morning, Oh! Y'all need my new address:

928 NW Spring St #4
Newport, OR 97365

Drop me a postcard! I'm two streets from the beach, apartment pictures coming soon!

Think I've used enough exclaimation points in this post? I can't believe it worked. Throwing my stuff in my car and moving to a strange place halfway across the country. I left ABQ Oct 1, and here it is Nov 2 and I am housed and gainfully employed. Even two days ago I didn't think it was going to happen. I was planning how I would return to NM or try this same shtick in Portland. I'm so happy. !!!