No longer homeless

After a week of patiently (hahahahhaha) waiting to hear back regarding the house that we saw last week and submitted our rental application for, I finally got some good news today!  We will be moving to our new house by the end of the month.  Here is what the new house looks like from the outside:

The front of the house

The house is deceptively larger than it seems from the outside.  When you go in the front door, you are in the dining room, the steps to go up to the two bedrooms are there and there is a living room.  Both the dining and the living room have beautiful bay windows that the cats are going to adore!.  There is a doorway and a slide window that open from the dining room into the kitchen and off of the kitchen is a large family room, that will be great for watching TV! 

I absolutely adore the kitchen, its bigger than the one that we have now, with tons more counter space!  There are cabinets everywhere!  There is a newer refrigerator, a flat top stove and a dishwasher!  A DISHWASHER!  There is also a small bedroom that I will use for my office and the main bathroom is on the main floor. 

Upstairs are two bedrooms and a half bath (just a toilet and sink).  Both bedrooms are nice sized and will both fit our king sized bed.  The only thing that I am worried about is getting the large gorgeous double dresser that used to be in my mom and dad's bedroom.  My mom wants Hubs and I have to have the dresser as it won't fit in her room.  There is a basement that isn't finished per se, but it is partially finished and dry so Hubs can use that as his "man cave".  Tons of cabinets and storage down there also.  The laundry room is the length of the back of the house and also has a "pittsburgh toilet" in it.  For those of you wondering what a "pittsburgh toilet" is, its a random toilet put in the basement with no walls or anything around it.  HA.  There is also a shower in the laundry room that looks usable. 

The back yard is huge and there is a wrap around porch with a roof around the back/side of the house.  There is a pond and also a shed in the backyard and I cannot wait to begin to do some landscaping.  We are hopefully going to take up residence in this place on or before July 1st.  I will do a better tour of the inside of the house once we get in and get it fixed up. 

There are a few things that we want to do to the house.  We are going to assist with removing the carpeting from the floor because right now the carpet is mint green and smells.  The people who lived there previously must have had cats because it smells like cat urine to me, but I know we can get the smell out.  The carpet is going to be removed to expose the beautiful hardwood floors underneath.  We are going to assist with the labor of taking the carpet out and refinishing the floors.  Hopefully we will get in sooner than later and get started with the work! 

I was really starting to get worried that we weren't going to find a place.  I am so happy that this has worked out.  We were so happy with this place, it is someplace I can see us being in for awhile.  We are going to sign a two year lease so that gives me hope that we will have some stability for awhile. 

We put off TTC for this month because of everything with the move.  I will be doing most of the packing and moving of the small things and rubbermaid containers with the hours that Hubs works so having me not being able to move thing and pick things up would make things hard this month.  That doesn't change the fact that I am still thinking about it all the time and I really wonder if we are doing something wrong.  I don't seem to be able to pinpoint the days that I ovulate on my own and it just makes me so very frustrated.  I surely didn't think that this would take such a long period of time.  I am wondering if something is wrong with me or him and if that is why it is not happening.  I wish that I could just get some sort of peace on that front also.  We  have to try a few more months and then I'll make an appointment to see a doctor.

Once we get in and get this situated, I will do a tour of the new house!  I am finally feeling so much more relaxed.  Nothing at this point can bother me, even dirty whore's who still feel the name to make snide comments directed at me because they have nothing better to do with their time and something is obviously wrong mentally. 

Times they are a changin

Well seeing as how we have only a short 36 days to find a new house to live in as well as move all of our things into said house, I've been a bit preoccupied the past few weeks and have neglected my little space that I call my own. 

We currently rent the perfect house from my cousin and her husband.  It is perfectly located, just enough room for us and the kitties, I have a whole downstairs that is my "office" in which I do all my work during the day.  Its a separate space and I love the house completely.  We moved up here in December of 09 and had the agreement that we would live here so that they could get a house that was bigger, more suited for their needs.  We lived here for a year and a few months and due to the situation between them, personal issues, we are being evicted.  We have until June 30th to find a new house. 

This poses all kinds of issues.  I work from home, so we need to find a place that I can stand to be in 90% of my time.  I don't go into the office very often, so I spend most of my day downstairs right now in the finished basement which is my "office".  I am able to separate work from home for the most part and because I love the house, I don't mind being here all of the time.  Well, most of the time that is.  We also want to stay in the same general area.  We have family all around and don't want to move too far especially now that we are trying for a baby.  Also need to stay out of the city because of the increase in taxes.

We have found a few places and none of them panned out.  The first one was in the city, which means increase in taxes and rent.  I loved the house but it wasn't worth the money and hassle.  The second house I adored.  It was old with woodwork and it was redone.  But C would lose all his space.  He wouldn't have a basement or a garage and he would have no "man space". It was also only two bedrooms and the basement was unfinished so having a home office and a baby room/nursery wouldn't work.  So that won't work.  The third house was one that would have worked.  Had enough rooms and space.  Had a nice yard.  The drive way was very steep and the staining on the hardwood floors was half assed but it was still a house that we could have made a home.  Someone else got that one first.  There is one that is still not on the no way list yet, but it is a nice ranch-style house with a semi-finished basement but it is so very small.  SO SMALL.  I get anxiety thinking about moving all of our stuff in there. 

There aren't many options for what we want in this area.  We are expanding the search a bit to include other close by locations, and we have two appointments to see the houses in those areas this weekend.  One is very close to where we are now and I'm not sure how many rooms.  I did get to see the outside of the house when I was driving around with my in-laws on Monday after work and it looked nice but it is $150 a month more than we pay now and it doesn't look like the size justifies the hike in the pay.  We will have to see what the inside of the house looks like too to determine if we would pay that much and if it is big enough.  The other house is still close but not the immediate area we are in now.  It sounds gorgeous, completely redone, the person is moving for work and is looking for long term renters.  Its three bedrooms.  So we are keeping our fingers crossed for that.  There are also a few places my MIL knows that we may be able to rent, houses that are for sale by friends.  One looks so promising with the view that overlooks the river from the huge windows.  So we have some options, we just need something to pan out soon.

We are both so stressed.  We are obviously not pregnant at this time, but hope to be in the next upcoming months.  I need to relax on that front too and realize that I cannot make it happen but I need to do all I can to help it.  Things last night did not go well, C let some old demons take hold of him and after a long conversation this morning, I feel better.  I know that he is stressed out and that he is upset because we are having to move after finally getting things in order again.  He has a permanent great job, we had a nice home and then poof, we're unstable again.  He realizes that he was wrong and has apologized many times and said that it will not happen again. I believe him but he is on notice that this shit does not FLY in my house.  I will not be made a fool of and if he wants to act like he's a child, he'll be treated in the same manner.  I'll send him off to work with only enough money for a red bull and no ATM cards. 

Ridiculous.  So that's why I've been MIA.  I hope to be back this weekend with TTC updates lol and hopefully pictures of the new house!