i'm tap dancing i'm so happy!! well, to be honest, the day was a bit of a rollercoaster. after staying up way too late last night studying for my test today, i went to bed only to catch the very end of 40 year old virgin on demand. which was fine... i was not too engaged in it until the damn thing reset and started playing from the beginning again (stupid comcast). so i closed my eyes and tried not to watch but i am such a movie-o-phile (maybe not a word) that i couldn't stop watching it. so i sat there for almost an hour before i drifted off at about 4:30 in the morning. i think... i stopped looking at the clock around four.
needless to say, i didn't even stir when my alarm went off at 6:30. not a big surprise really. when i did finally wake up at 8 and realize, oh shit, i'm supposed to be sitting in my retarded left handed desk in the row against the wall, four seats back at kennesaw and starting my management class right now, i kind of gave the morning up as a lost cause. very bad with finals next week! but i do what i can, and decided a few more zzz's were my top priority.
when i did finally drag my head off the pillow 2 hours later i had a message from huey. he'd forwarded me a voicemail from the landlord saying they couldn't go as low as $1100 but could do $1300. apparently they thought we were kidding when we said that $1200 was the absolute highest we would go. not that this place isn't worth it... it's definately worth the full 1500, if not more. we just can't afford that. nor do we want to afford that. not with the other options we had. so i kinda deflated and went into my test all snarky but managed to push it out of my mind.
anyway, i called the landlord when i got home and thanked her for looking into it but told her it just wasn't doable for us at anything over $1200. i was putting on my happy face, being all resigned and thankful when she suddenly told me she'd get back to me in half an hour. lo and behold, jay calls thirty minutes later and tells me to check my email and whoopee!!! we got it! we got it!! WE GOT IT!!
I DON'T HAVE TO MOVE!!!!! oh happy day.
you know how sometimes you don't realize you are stressed about something or don't realize that you have this kind of weight on your shoulders because it snuck up on you slowly and you just got so accustomed to it gradually that you forgot what life was like without it? and then suddenly it's gone and you are floating about 6 inches off the ground the rest of the day? that's how i felt. we took a well deserved celebration meal at atkins park along with a few beers and relaxed the evening away.
now i'm excited because with jay and huey gone (not excited b/c huey is gone, but because i'm not getting totally screwed by his leaving), and with sabrina and i in charge, we can really make the place nice as far as decorating it goes. it is fine now, but it kind of is more functional that froo-froo. not that i always like froo-froo, but it can be nice from time to time. i will miss the 70"+ projector screen that we rigged up when jay's tv went bye bye though. its... sooooooo... big!!
one thing i realized at some point about 2 months ago is that i am missing that girl gene that requires you to take pictures from every thing you have ever done with your friends and get them framed and hung up all over your house. i just have never had any desire (at least not for more than 5 min) to do anything like that. but i think it'll liven the place up. plus we get to move around all the furniture and kind of make it feel like new again. i'm also going to pay to have the floors waxed so they'll be all shiny since puppy is going to savannah too (*sniff* i told you i was being abandoned).
either way, this is all shaping up to make a wonderful end of the summer for me and i can't wait for this fall.
i'm going to go ahead and throw in a few victory arm pumps for good measure.
