apartments, and jobs and headaches - oh my!

hello! i feel like it's been for-freakin'-ever since i updated or wrote anything. i have so many people asking me about the move, what's going on, etc. that i felt it was easier to write it in a blog.

first, thank you for the sweet messages and comments! it's nice being cared about :)

soooooo, sometime in february i went up to maryland to meet with my uncle who has his own company. he had an opening and since my contract with uva was up in may, and i was job searching, it seemed like a great opportunity. so, shortly after meeting with him, i gave my two weeks to uva. my last day at uva was march 5th!

short blurb about uva - while i enjoyed some aspects of working at uva, the job was not a good fit and most of the past year i've been job searching/unhappy. we all know that uva isn't my cup of tea and that blacksburg/virginia tech is a much better place for me :)

sooooooooooo peter and i went up to maryland this past sunday to look for apartments with a super, super nice realtor. he took us around and showed us the area and some good places.

the first place we saw we loved, but found out it already had an application out on it :( talk about a bummer. it was the cheapest (it had been sitting for awhile, although i don't really know how) yet nicest place. sigh.

so fast forward to tuesday. peter had to work, but i left at 6:50 in the a.m. from charlottesville to meet up with said realtor in maryland and we spent another day apartment searching. we found a nice back-up place, but once again, i fell in love with a place that was in the same area as the first one that left us discouraged.

so after running around, getting offer letters from the job, getting a certified check from the bank after finding out you have to buy a money order with cash not check, getting the run around like whoa, i made it over the the property management office who controls the property we want and HOPEFULLY this means we have that apartment. we'll find out a definite answer today, but it looks good. if not, we do have a backup that actually would allow us to move in this saturday.

i can't believe how stressful it has been to find an apartment. i feel like it was easier to buy a condo in some aspects!

so recap:
-moving to germantown, maryland
-will be working in rockville, maryland (office is located in rockville town center)
-will still have an extra bedroom so we expect visitors :p
-moving the weekend of the 20th
-starting work: march 23rd

whew.

*love and hugs*