Let's add up the final numbers in Steph's Swingin' Apartment Search:

I don't know how many ads I read in the paper on Sunday... lets say that was 100.

38 of those newspaper ads seemed promising on some level. Add that to the 32 numbers I found either online or on my wanders around town with Jen. So that's 70 apartments.

I narrowed it down some more, and ended up calling 41 of them. 11 were disqualified for not returning my call in a timely manner. Others were disqualified for being too spendy.

Jen and I visited the interiors of 11 apartments over the last 3 days.

I narrowed it down to five.

Then I started thinking about how I could swing the money for the one in particular that would be a great value for me.

And then I decided once and for all that I'm not going to move.

There's more than one reason for the decision - the biggest one being the math doesn't add up. With the costs of moving compounded with the extra month I'd have to pay my current place... once it was all added up it really wouldn't be saving me much at all since I'm short term in the sense I'm only gonna be here a couple more years. So I'm staying put.

Hahahaa, I lie. I'm really not moving because I can't bear the thought of moving somewhere that doesn't have my neice's chalk drawings on the walls.

In other news, things have been on the move again at work. Not surprising - my job has been in a state of flux (capacitor) and transition constantly since I moved here. The latest moves me and others more towards the more technical side of things. On the one hand I'm a little sad that some of the creativity will be taken away, but on the other hand I'm excited to learn new things because that is exactly why I took this job. I want new things, I want transition, because it gives me a broader knowledge base and will hopefully make me more attractive to so cal jobs when I start looking again. Bottom line - I'm not going anywhere.

Except maybe to the bathroom... hold on a sec...

Okay, we're back. Plop plop plop. I'm outta things to say. New blog links to the left, courtesy of the celebrity pokemon site. I always wanna type the word Jeopardy! after celebrity. The number one thing wrong with Oshkosh television is that Jeopardy's on tv while I'm at work. It just doesn't make sense.