I wrote the preceding post from work, after hours, right before I followed my co-worker to their house to ‘inspect’ things and see if it is a place I could call home.
I walked in and the stereo is playing jazz/NPR. It is neat, clean, and spacious. Good lighting. Happy energy.
We tour the house. The room that would be mine has an eastern exposure. Picture window. Outlets on every wall.
The neighborhood is quiet. The back yard is green. My co-worker is laid back and we have gotten along well since I started working there
I ask how soon the room could be available. They said by end of month, which works out nicely since that’s when my rent is paid through.
I drove home feeling very good about it. Just got in about ten minutes ago. As I’m sitting here typing, the phone rings. It’s my co-worker. They say to me:
Hey look, I know the travel and gas are eating you alive and since it looks like we are going to be able to get along well enough, I figure why not go ahead and start bringing your things over the next week or so? Don’t sweat any rent for June, just help out with the utilities and we’ll start fresh in July on rent. I figure no need of you spending the couple of hundred bucks you’ll spend on gas if you don’t have to, eh?
So. Tomorrow when I go to work, I’ll be taking in three boxes. Books, games, CDs, the things that just sit on the shelf. And over this week and the next, I’ll slowly move cross-town.
In case you didn’t get the last line of the last post (I cannot imagine…. but I suppose it could be possible), upon the site and as I found at their house, a giant glossy photo/poster of…. a phoenix.
I get the feeling this is going to be something very helpful and most likely not just for me. The icing on the cake is that I’ll have a deposit from this place coming to me which will be a nice bump toward taking care of the taxes. In essence, this move will not only put me out of my misery with gas costs, it will save me roughly $150 a month in rent as well. Not to mention the drive time.
A good day. I’ll vid an update here in a moment. I’m having my lil sandwich supper. And smiling.