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Week 22
~ House Hunting
I'm having a really bad time right now so this will be another short entry (at least short for me). I'm stressed beyond belief with too many things going on, and I'm not handling any of it well. It's a mixture of house hunting and then I have moving to worry about. My parents were supposed to come and help, but due to engine troubles and a part on backorder they can't leave for at the very least another two weeks so I don't get that help and sanity break that my mother would be providing me! Tommy is being a real handful right now too. He isn't napping on any kind of a schedule anymore, and he's not sleeping well at night and he's constantly throwing tantrums! Tom is never home and when he is all we seem to be doing is fight these past few weeks, and Tommy and I are feeling neglected. The pregnancy seems to be going well, but I may be borderline for gestational diabetes so I'm going straight for the three hour glucose tolerance test. I know from monitoring my own sugars that I will probably fail the one hour just like I did last pregnancy so I just requested going straight for the 3 hour one.
I can't really describe what I'm feeling right now. It's a mix of frustration, depression, anger, feeling helpless, etc. I don't know where to start to make it better either. I guess I just need to go day by day.
I don't think I talked about house hunting too much in my journal. It has been so frustrating! We need to be out of this place by May 31 and we do want to leave, our landlord doesn't repair a thing and keeps raising the rent, but the market is so awful right now where we live. The prices are still high and there are so many people looking for a rental. If there is indeed a recession it really hasn't made its impact in Silicon Valley yet! Or at least not in our housing market! We found a really great house quite a while ago. We put in an application and the landlady has really dragged her feet on getting back to us. Unfortunately the house isn't in the best area for Tom's commute, but I would be able to go to daily Mass, and I am really excited about that prospect!
We have continued to search for other places since this woman isn't making a decision. We put in applications at several other places, but nothing has thrilled me. There was always something big that I didn't like about each house whether it be too small of a kitchen, master bedroom that would fit just our king size bed with only a foot to walk around it, not enough storage, other overall square footage issues or bad feelings about the landlord or an unsafe yard, etc. There was a three bedroom house that we liked, but the washer and dryer were outside. Not outside in the garage or a shed (this house didn't have a garage either), but outside against the wall of the house with no kind of shelter around it! That just seemed very unsafe. We did get this house though.
Just a little while ago we finally got a call back from the landlord with the big house. She can't find our application! She has the thick packet of credit reports we dropped off with her and the cover letter, but not the initial rental application sheet of paper. She asked if we could mail her a new one. Mail! I asked if I could answer her questions over the phone as well as drop off a new application. She again said she understands that with a baby and being pregnant it is hard for me to get out of the house so mailing is just fine! I told her that could take several days and that we don't have that time since we have offers now we need to decide on. Her reply, "Oh a few days don't matter to me". She is just not getting this! I told her I would drop off an application later tonight and she said her daughter would call us tonight. I told her to tell her daughter she can call up until midnight - we'll be up!
We just don't know what to do. This house is close to twice the size of anything else we have seen, but I'm concerned that we might yet again turn down a house that is ok by waiting again on this flaky lady (we turned down one a few weeks ago)! But at the same time I don't think I'll be happy at these other houses. It's all such a dilemma!
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