Well quiet a bit has happened since I last posted. I have decided to stay in CO. At first I wasn’t sure how or even if I was going to be able to accomplish this. My biggest concern was finding a place I could afford. You see having lived with my parents my whole life I have lived a bit more extravagantly than I should. I have a large car payment and several other bills including student loans. I have been trying to figure it out and have been getting more and more stressed as time goes by. I made a list of all the stuff I needed to get done and each item seemed impossible. I needed to find a place to live that I could afford which more than likely meant a roommate. My options for a roommate?? My boyfriend Brian (who has been living with me and my parents for 2 months why he has been recovering from surgery) or a complete stranger. Neither options were very good because I knew I would get so much grief from friends and family about living with my boyfriend that it would drive me crazy and make me miserable. And I didn’t like the idea of living with a stranger because I have issues trusting people and opening up to people. Overall just not a good thing. So I had all but given up on that and was trying to find a really cheap crummy place that I could afford on my own. The problem with that was my pets and the fact that every place I called all I got was an answering machine and no one ever called my back. I was becoming convinced that I would never find a place I could afford and would wind up with no other choice then to move to TX. You can imagine my frustration and mounting stress.
Then Friday I found out that my best friend is having problems with her roommate and that she would be looking for someone to take over the lease. The rent is a bit more than I would like to pay and she lives farther away from my work but this seemed to be the best option I have had so far. So I went about the process of thinning out my budget to see if I could squeeze the extra few hundred I would need to afford the rent utilities and of course food, gas and other living experiences.
I had resigned myself to the fact that I couldn’t do this with my current car payment so yesterday I went to the Go super-sale to see what they could do for me. The whole day was very stressful, car after car after car, all a step down from what I have now. I couldn’t see myself in any of them. The amount it would lower my payment wouldn’t have been enough to justify getting rid of my car for a disposable car that would only last me for a couple years. Thankfully Brian suggested I look into refinancing my car to see how much that would lower my car payment. I had thought about it before but dismissed it thinking it wouldn’t do much good. But at this point I was willing to look into anything so I called Aunt Jennifer and she did the calculations and said she could lower my payment almost $150 which was about what trading in my car would have done, but I got get to keep my car! So I sighed a HUGH sigh of relief and we left the car sale and went to Mandi’s.
So as it sits I am staying in CO when my parents more to TX. I am going to be moving in with Mandi at least until her lease is up in November and my pets are not a problem. *sigh* I can finally breath again! I am going to miss my family dearly and this may not last i may find myself miserable here without them but I have to at least give it a try.
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March 17, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Wow-I was sick and then had out-of-town company for a week-and look at all your changes!!!?!