Fingers Crossed, Please and Thanks

I’m sitting at the library again doing what I can do to keep myself occupied while my kids are in school. With luck I won’t have to do this much longer. I know you want to know why so go ahead and ask. Ok, I’ll tell you. Tomorrow morning at 9:00 I have an appointment with the apartment complex where I lived before I moved back to NY. The appointment is for them to collect my financial information and decide how much rent I’ll be paying when they assign me to a residence there. You heard that, right? I’m getting a place to live after two long years. It’s back in the same complex, and it’s still income-based but I don’t care. I’ll take it.

After they go over my financials it isn’t supposed to take very long before they have me sign a lease and give me keys, perhaps a week or so. Fingers crossed for me please because we really need this. I can’t stand living in other people’s homes and the shelter was just a stepping stone to get us back to where we need to be. Yes, it was a stepping stone; somewhere we had to be because that’s where the Universe wanted us at the time. Now we’re back here in MO and so looking forward to getting my own home again. I even walked around Dollar General yesterday making a mental list of all the supplies I’ll need once the kids and I get our stuff relocated to our home.

I really don’t like shopping but if it means I’ll have what I need to make a home for the kids and me then I’ll just have to suffer through it. We sold almost everything we had before we left, and got rid of the cleaning supplies and whatnot so we’re really starting over. We’ve still got bedroom furniture; the boys have all of theirs, Dolly still has her dressers and I’ve got my bed but I have no dressers and she’s got no bed. We’ve also got our bookshelves, my curio and china cabinets, and our TVs but that’s pretty much it for furniture.

I did visit a thrift store the other day and was told by the lady who runs the place that when I bring her a lease she can help me get the furniture we still need – at no cost to me. She said the bedroom stuff may take a week or two but that’s okay. Dolly and I have survived this long without anything so I’m sure we can survive a few more days without it. The thrift store can also help us get the sundries we need for our home – lamps and things like that. Awesome, isn’t it? I think so too. New home, new furniture, a new life. Aaaaahhhhhh…

I also can’t wait to get hooked up with cable again. I have to have Internet to work and I need a home phone. I love having a cell phone and I’m grateful to my friend for paying for me to have one but I really need to get a home phone so I don’t have to constantly carry my phone with me wherever I go in case it rings. And on the selfish side, I really need my movie channels back again. I used to watch movies at night during my free time and haven’t done that in a long while. I’d rather watch movies than regular TV, except for “Supernatural” of course, and I’m really yearning to have my movie channels back again.

It all hinges on this interview tomorrow morning. I’ve already printed to documentation I have to bring with me and I’m even bringing the deposit with me in case I’m allowed to pay it while I’m there. I will also be asking a lot of questions to find out exactly how long it takes before I’m approved to move in, and I’ll make sure they know that I will do anything I can to speed up the process, and I will, too. I’ve done it before, made phone calls to get the contacted agencies to send my information to the rental office immediately so there was no hold-up in the processing. I’ll do it again.

For right now, though, I’m going to find something to do while the kids are still in school for the day. I won’t leave the library; I’ll just find something to do on the Internet to occupy my time. What I’d like to ask of you is that you please send all the positive energy that you can to me so I can speed up the waiting time and get into my home quickly. And please keep your fingers crossed that all goes well. I’d really appreciate it and I’ll definitely let you know how things work out for me tomorrow.

Until next time…peace to all.