Tuesday, March 16

So Where Do We Go From Here?

Rob has dropped out of the apartment.

After he told me (and after I realized all my attempts and persuading him otherwise were useless) I didn't know whether to scream or cry or curl up and give in.

It's hard.... But his family needs him.

Also I'm not completely unprepared.
For anyone who knows me will know that I have about 20 backup plans up my sleeve. Rob had decided he wasn't going back to his seasonal job come spring. Although he then found it difficult to find another job. So we had been keeping an eye out for potential cheap 2 bedroom apartments or a potential new roommate if it came down to that. But I still can't help but morn the death of the original.

I will commence backup plan #1 tomorrow. -Ask backup roommate, Kevin.

Here's hoping everything works out for the best.
Stay tuned, and wish me luck!
-Kate.
P.S. Enclosed is an old picture of Rob and I at the bar.


Friday, March 12

The View

The heat is mounting.

The time is coming for us to finally find our apartment. This became very apparent when we viewed our first place! We drove up the street of a quiet court in Oshawa and our first impressions were good. The neighbourhood was quaint and Mike was excited that there was a Mary Brown`s just around the corner. The landlord greeted us with open arms and my original fears flew away. It helped too that the first room I walked into was a beautiful kitchen. Walking further in we could see that the place was very pretty and well maintained and we were rather excited on the prospects that we may have found the place on our first try. We saw the first 2 bedrooms and were lead out and up to find the 3rd room that was going to be Rob`s. Well, in nice terms... it was a closet. A very small closet.

And from there things went down hill. Rob wasn`t very impressed by his `room` and when Mike and I went back to check the master bedroom we found there was no closet. Seeing as we had talked about expanding a small closet, no closet was not going to work. There was a "dinning room" that the current tenants had converted into a babies room and Mike and I teetered on the thought that we could add some sort of door and make that our room, giving Rob the master. But under further consideration we decided for $1100 a month it wasn't worth it.

So the hunt continues.
Stay Tuned!

-Kate.
80 DAYS TO GO!