My tendency is to overdramatize everything. To awfulize, if you will. Granted, things haven’t been going well around here, and yes, my grandmother is very, very ill. I have to stop dwelling on The Badness, though, every second of the day, or I will end up just staying in bed 24/7 and while that’s tempting, I just really shouldn’t. Especially since once in awhile, a girl’s gotta bathe.
(sidenote– Rob changed the blog over to the newest version of whatever it’s running on– MT? I dunno– which is why there may be some glitchy things going on. Rest assured, if you’re commenting, they’re showing up, just maybe not right away)
Anyway. There’s been a lot of cruddy things kind of happening. Or things that could be perceived as cruddy, and then me just freaking out and being like “OH! SO CRUDDY! LIFE IS OVER AS WE KNEW IT!”. I have been so overly dramatic that I didn’t even want to blog about them which is silly because my blog is one way that I let out the crazies. There’s also my real-life-written-with-a-pen-on-paper-blog, which some people might call a journal, but my right shoulder has been bugging me and typing’s easier.
Bad Things That Have Been Happening (aside from my grandma being sick):
- I was possibly going to keep the job I was doing (teaching the first-graders) until the Christmas holidays, which would mean many good things including an increase in pay and the possibility of moving out of my parents’ basement, but the teacher decided to come back early which I don’t begrudge her, it’s her job, it’s just that
- the principal of the school kept stringing me along and didn’t even TELL ME HIMSELF even when I asked but waited until the last day, AFTER SCHOOL, when some other teacher gave me a card and said “Hey, have fun sleeping in on Monday!” so I didn’t get to even say goodbye to the kids I’d been teaching for the past four weeks. SO because of the loss of cash,
- we had to give up on the house we’d been planning on moving into on the 16th of this month.
BUT
We spoke to the house-rental-lady and she agreed to hold the house for us and we will be moving in in January.
I have been SO hesitant about mentioning this, due to The Jinx ™ but I figure what the hell. Either it happens or it doesn’t. Of course if it ends up NOT happening I will totally blame it on myself Jinxing Things by mentioning it but yeah, right now? I don’t care.
Anyway, here’s what I can tell you about our house (ours inasmuch as we’ll be renting a house, and it won’t be the basement of my parents’ house):
It’s right next door to the house that my family lived in when we first moved to PEI when I was five. So that was a bit of a laugh.
You can see pictures of the outside here and here. You can tell it’s not a humongous place, but hey! There are only two of us! We don’t need a tonne of room (as is evidenced by the fact that we haven’t murdered each other yet while basically living in one room in the basement here). And we’ll be paying less for it than we were for our tiny one-bedroom apartment in Halifax. Oil is included (yes! they come and fill up your oil tank whenever it starts to get low! Which means I can be Totally Nude with the heat turned up all the way if I want and not have to worry about paying a bill! Although I would never do that maybe). Maintenance (including lawnmowing) included. No lawnmowing? SIGN ME UP.
The main floor has the bathroom, livingroom, kitchen/eating area, and a bedroom (which I think might become our office). Upstairs there are two more bedrooms. There is lots and lots of nice closet space, something that’s pretty rare for a house built in the early 1940s. There’s also a full basement with laundry hookups and such which is also good. Storage! Room to keep our crap! Yay!
In the pictures, you only see the front of the house. The window to your right is the downstairs bedroom window. The other window is the bathroom window. I like that the livingroom and the big picture window are toward the back of the house — where there are no other houses, so no one will be peeking in our windows.
There’s a big front and backyard. In the summertime, they will give us something like 16 patio stones, if we want to make a little hanging-out-outdoors area. They also provide topsoil if we want to do some gardening. There’s full access to the Confederation Trail, which would be nice if I were prone to exercising. It’s also only five km. from town. That’s like, one and a half minutes! Instead of the 35-minute drive it takes now for us to get to town. Which sucks.
So there. THERE. Some Good News, and that is all I had to say for today.