Ok, so I along w/my mom, have been house hunting for a few months now. About 6 weeks ago, we found one. Seemingly perfect, price/area/commute. Except it's taking forever to close. Bank is moving slowly, realtor drama, expensive for my mother to travel back and forth to complete the sale, the selling of her own house and now my current lease is set to expire.

Well, over the weekend, it seeemed like my mother was ready to walk away from the deal, except she wasn't saying it clearly enough. I had just turned in my 30 day notice to vacate and the prospect of finding and apartment, while dealing w/the other 2 stresses mind you, was just too much.

Finally I just toughened up and pulled up craigslist, found 4 potentials, all available now, in my price range, match my commute. The bad part is I'd end up paying double for rent, but it'd be worth my peace of mind. Plus I wouldn't have to cram and move at the end of the month, I'd take my time and use each weekend this month to move out.

I call my mom to give her the news, my thinknig as, if this sale doesn't go through, let's just forget it for a year, I couldn't go through the house hunting game again, to many highs and lows, I just wanted time to regroup, plus getting a bigger place than I'm @ now, will allow my mom to visit w/o staying in a hotel, for as long as she wanted.

The shortest lease I could find, that met my criteriea, was for 6 months. When I tell her, she gets mad. There's more behind the scenes to this, like her not calling the bank to check on things b/c she herself was getting disgusted w/the process.

Well, now I'm mad. So we are tensely talking back and forth, she's telling me if I get a 6 month lease, forget the house altogether, which of couse makes me feel guilty. I'm like, I don't know what to say, do you want me to live in a car for a few weeks? Any place that rents week to week is in a scuzzy part of town. Even if I went to the extended stay hotel she uses, it's $200/week. If the close and repairs last over 3 weeks, I'm screwed.

Anyway, more to the drama and since it's about resolved, it's faded, but let me get to the bottom line.

Since my current lease is really up August 15th, I'm just eager to leave and have been pumping July 30th in my head since the first large waterbug crawled across the floor last September, I'm going to approach my landlady and ask her to let me stay 2 more weeks.

The house closing is @ the end of the month, the realtor finally called and said nothng changed, which we take to me, everythign is still on track. The contractor said the work should take 2 weeks, and the major work is one week, meaning once get gets that done, which is repair roof and remove mold, I can live there while he does the other stuff.

So that leaves me feeling a little less stressed. That and finding the rentals. We also have a drop dead date, meaning if things w/the house don't work out, @ that time, I can start looking for a place. Which means I'm not paying overlapping rent. Now I will be in competition w/students looking for hosueing, my price/area of the city, but I'll worry about that stress when I get to it.

Ok, next post: job worries. (sorry for typos and grammar, I'm in no mood to edit, and in order for me to tell the story, I have to write from my heart, not head)