Rollercoaster, wanna ride?

Holy crap, yesterday's search for a place to live was a total rollercoaster ride.

First, I went all incognito during the day and stopped at the houses we were planning to see in the afternoon with our realtor. I snuck in the back gates of most of them, peeked through all the windows, etc.

At that time, I thought for sure we were going to choose the house with the pool... but not just because it had a pool. It's layout was much better than the other places and it just felt more like a home. When I peeked into the windows of the non-pool house, the kitchen was soooo small... it looked more like a hall bathroom than a kitchen.

I was convinced.

That was until my husband, the more practical one, saw the houses later that afternoon.

When we walked into the non-pool house, I actually liked it and the kitchen was much bigger than it looked during my initial inspection.  The layout was more separated, but I liked the quality of each room better. Michael convinced the more reasonable, rational, and practical side of me that the smaller, no pool house actually fits our needs better and will be easier for us to maintain and clean. He was right. The pool house has 4 bedrooms. WTF do we need 4 bedrooms for? We stood in that house trying to determine which each of the 4 rooms would be used for and you know what we came up with? One of the rooms would be a guitar hero room.  Yup, definitely do not need 4 bedrooms.

So, our day ended at about 3:30 and we walked away feeling confident. We filled out an app and left the realtor to do her job. From there, we went to dinner and a movie. When we turned our phones back on after the movie, we had a message from the realtor at 5:00 that said the house we wanted accepted an application at NOON and they were planning to rent it to those people. We were out.

Bummer. 

I came home and went through her listings again and came up with a whole slew of them to see today. So much for a short list...

And now that I've convinced myself a bigger, 4-bedroom home with a pool is not rational, I can't even consider that now! It just doesn't make sense and I see that.

I really wanted the process to be complete, at least this phase of the process so I could finalize the rest of it.

I haven't eluded to this on my blog yet, but work is a total rollercoaster ride right now too.  We are merging with a nearby office, which means a lot of departments have two people for the same position. Every level- from the highest manager to the clerical staff, are being required to re-interview for their positions. This interview will determine which person they keep.

My interview, to keep my job, is from 3-5 on Thursday. I'm nervous for the interview, not necessarily about the possibility that I'll lose my job. I'm interviewing with 3 managers, 2 of which are already my bosses so they know me and we goof around together. It's weird. The 3rd is the new manager they've decided to keep from the nearby office. So it will be me, staring across a table with 3 managers interviewing me simultaneously... sounds dreadful right?

Lots of changes right now. Lots of stress. Hopeful my 2nd piano lesson at 11:30 today help ease my stress!

Kelsalynn