I will slightly add onto the few days after where I left off then jump to why we have been so busy.
The few days after my last post were filled with alot of idle time and nerves being in knots. I am not a fan of the waiting game for anything. The job emailed me they would be in touch with in a week. And Brian and I spent hours and days pacing chain smoking wondrering if we just blew $90 on an apartment application fee for nothing.
I got a few more phone calls to go on job interviews, nothing too special, just retail and stock.
Oh fun more things to wait for Call backs about. I started to feel like a burden on Danielle n Shawn. It had been a week since we arrived and even tho we were told we could stay as long as we needed to. I truly felt that Brian and I needed our own place ASAP. Every night I would pray that life would fall into place. And that we could just have a place of our own to call home before we go broke. I tell god all I want for my 30th birthday on October 22nd is a place of our own to call home and a job that pays enough to keep it.
And yes I pray alot.
Saturday rolled around and my nerves are getting to me. While drinking coffee and chain smoking in danielle's back yard my phone rang. It was the woman from the rental company. Great news..... We got the apartment and can move in Tuesday. So excited for the first time since Brian and I have been married, we are going to have our own place. Now to play the waiting game again. It's only Saturday but Tuesday feels so far away.
Fast forwarding to Monday I went on another interview. This one was at Big time department store for the stock room. Wow was that nerve racking. I made the mistake of showing up an hour early. It was interesting to watch n listen to all the interesting things going on in the HR department. After an hour of waiting the lady called me in for my interview. It was very corporate. Things seemed to be going ok and at the end she seemed to want to make me a job offer and asked to see my ID. I pulled out my NJ drivers liscense and it was like I pulled out garlic to a vampire. She said she is unsure if She can employ me. I was confused. Just cause I don't have an Oregon state drivers liscense didn't mean I can't work in Oregon.
I do have a Social Security card tho. She told me she would run it by HR and be in touch with me. This is starting to turn into a depressing trend. I needed something amazing to happen in life to cheer me up.
So when I got back to my car I called the rental manager to get the exact dollar amount to have a cashiers check made for Tuesday. And to my surprise the rental manager told me to come down and sign the lease a day early. I was suddenly filled with excitement. Today just turned into the day I've been waiting for now for over 5 years. It is about to be official that we have our own home.
I sped to the bank got the cashiers check n rushed back to danielle's to get Brian. He was beyond happy. We went down signed the papers handed over 1/2 of the rest of our savings and next thing you know we had keys. It was officially ours. I took a short video to send home to my family and friends. And off we went to load our boxes into the car one last time for a while. Danielle and Isaiah met us at her place and allowed us to strap the box spring to the roof of her suv and allowed us to tetris our boxes into the suv n her car.
Brian and I couldn't wait to get everything into the apartment and unpack. We managed to get almost everything to the new place with the 3 cars.
After emptying the cars Danielle and Isaiah went their separate ways and Brian and I began ripping into boxes like little kids on Christmas. It was so exciting to finally get to see what we have been lugging around for all this time. We also got to open all of our amazing bridal shower gifts that were still in their original boxes.
The first thing I did was gather up all the bathroom stuff and ran off to decorate. Our shower curtain and bathroom decor that my aunt n cousin gave us went perfect. It was like it was ment to be.
The bed perfectly fits in the room with tons of space to spare.
The kitchen came with a 1952 teal stove. I must say originally scared me cause I didn't think I had anything to match such a thing. But upon opening boxes we discovered we have a bunch of 1950's metal vintage signs that would make our vintage kitchen just what it needed to be.
I swear we stayed up till 2 am exploring boxes. The next day we woke and headed back to danielle's to get our last two car loads of stuff. We said our thank yous and gave hugs and were off to unpack the last of our boxes.
Piece by piece we found spots for what we could. We even made a run to target to purchase a $16 book shelf to put some books on. I told Brian we needed two of them and he swore I didn't own that many books. To his surprise when we got home we probally could have used 3 book shelves. Our place still seems so empty. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that we do not own a tv nor any furniture. But one day hopefully we will be able to afford some.
Our first visitor to stop by was my friend Adam who lives a few blocks away. He came to kidnap us for drinks at a local bar/ strip joint. Now what's weird to me is every strip joint here feels like a regular bar till you turn around and oh my dancing ladies. All of the bars here have "lottery" aka slot machines in them. It was nice to get out and meet new people and have a drink or two and a few laughs with good people. A big thank you to Adam for a wonderful afternoon out.
After arriving back home that evening I started to get super home sick. I started wishing that our family and friends back east could be here to see our new place and all we have done with this sweet space.
To be honest I cried for a few hours. Brian tried calming me but no words could fill the void of missing everyone that has found their way into my life and my heart back east.
Fast forward a few days full of decorating and trying to skype my mom and dad on my iPhone with no wifi. That would bring us to Saturday.
We have since acquired a second book shelf and two small ottomans for chairs. We have formed two of my giant photo bins into a make shift table. We finally have enough hangers to hang all of our clothes. We got a throw rug in hopes of it absorbing some of the echo from our place being so empty. The kitchen is all put away and straightened up. Brian even has all the cans in the cabinet lined up perfectly just like my stad has his at home.
I figure just like the Johnny cash song one piece at a time only not about a car. We will eventually turn it into a home. And as we acquire a dollar or two here and there we hope to acquire furniture.
Now our mission is to acquire jobs ASAP so we can continue to afford this adorable place we now call home.
I would like to extend a huge thank you to Shawn, and Danielle for being amazing hosts and allowing us to stay with you and store our stuff at your place. As well as being amazing friends. And also a huge thank you to Isaiah for helping us load and unload boxes as well as for being a great friend.
For now I'm going to end this with a short line from a Johnny Cash song that has been haunting my head.
The song is " Can't help but wonder where I'm bound"
"if you see me passing by, and you sit and wonder why, and you wish that you were rambling too.
Nail your shoes to the kitchen floor, lace them up and bar the door.
Thank your stars for the roof that's over you."
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