Gooooood news (enfin!)
I’m taking a little breather before I get back to running around and sweating for the rest of the evening. I have to work the eighth grade graduation…and by “work” it, I DO mean WORK, to the point where I won’t even see the kids graduate. Oh well.
Even the dread of working until 9 tonight isn’t enough to dampen my spirits today. Our landlord wrote back to the letter I handed him with our rent which detailed that we would not like to renew our lease July 1st. I also asked if it would be possible to keep some, if not all, of our security deposit, since we didn’t give 60 days’ written notice. I simply said that had we had 60 days’ notice, we would have told him.
Well, however I put it worked; he is going to give us the entire security deposit back! All $925 of it. Nicole can use that to pay off her car completely, and we won’t have to dip much into our pay checks to pay the movers. Yes, we’re hiring movers, but just for a few things. The mattresses are unwieldy, and the sofas are going to have to go through this big window in Julie’s living room, and I simply want no part in that stress. If some big hairy dudes are willing to do it for a price, I’m glad to pay it.
We’re going to start packing this week and migrating things over. I honestly cannot wait. Almost exactly a year from now, we are getting married and starting a whole new part of our lives. I see this year as a sort of “fasting” on all fronts to prepare for my real, adult life: saving, cutting out excess, investing in myself and our relationship to strengthen what we have. I think it’s going to create a great foundation.
Of course, these are all plans I’ve had before. I’m hoping I can find the motivation in this new, clean place to start fresh and stay on top of my life. I actually hope I transform into a neat freak by replacing my eating and sloth with organization and schedules. The only problem is that it all looks so simple in my head, but actually putting any of it into action is so hard for some reason. I have this crystal-clear image of who I want to be, who I truly am inside, but I just can’t seem to put it into practice. I’m hoping a new beginning is just the answer I’ve been searching for.
Wow. I haven’t had super-good news in such a long time. I’m slightly nervous for the unknown, but excitement is certainly winning out.
Change is good, change is good, change is good.