When I
graduated college and moved back home to live in my parents’ basement, I
naively thought I would only be there for six months, eight months tops. That
was two years ago and I just barely moved out a week ago. I’m going to be
telling the story of finding my apartment, moving in, and how I’m liking it so
far in a series of posts, to keep them a bit shorter.
About a
month ago my mom came home from a lunch (or dinner, I don’t really remember)
with some ex-coworkers of hers with a suggestion from one of them of a place to
live. I had been looking at apartments on and off, sometimes seriously,
sometimes just casually. I had wanted to move out on my own—no roommates—but
Mom and Dad didn’t seem to think that was a very good plan. In fact, they were
pretty much against the idea. My parents very rarely share such strong
feelings, so after my initial feelings of “My parents just don’t understand! Waaaa!!” I decided that
there was probably a reason they felt that way. But I felt a little dejected—I
did not want to live with someone I didn’t know, nor did I want to live with
more than just one other person. It made me feel exhausted just thinking about
having to please two or three people! (I'm so antisocial, I know.)
Around the
time I was starting to look more seriously at apartments (I had just gotten my
job, so it was about six months ago), my friend M got home from her LDS
Mission. We went out one night to hang out and I mentioned about my parents not
wanting me to live alone. Immediately she said, “I’ll live with you!” To which
I’m pretty sure I said, “I think we’d kill each other.” We never talked about
it again.
Back to a
month ago. My mom showed me the website for the complex, and we looked at
pictures and floorplans. My brain was just whirring, thinking about it. I liked
the look of the complex and apartments. Now if I could only find a roommate.
And M popped into my head. “No way,” I thought. “Well, maybe.” After sleeping
on it, the next morning I messaged her. “You still looking to move out, because
I found a place. I’ll send you the link if you’re interested.” And she
responded enthusiastically (as she does. It’s good, I don’t show enthusiasm,
and she always does. We’re a good pair. ;) ).
I sent a
message to the Office Manager saying we were interested in a 2 bed/1 bath apartment. About a week
later I had a voicemail from them. When I tried to call back, I got hung up on!
I was sure they would call back, but they didn’t until about a week later, when
we finally made a plan to meet and take a look at the apartment.
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