The Doldrums

A friend of Andrew's who is also planning his wedding at the moment put it very well...we're in the doldrums... that is, we ain't doing much. In my case it's an I ain't doing much. Andrew is doing quite a lot. He's writing his thesis, in fact, he has less than two weeks to write his thesis. As for me...I'm in the doldrums. I'm not doing anything substantial in terms of wedding planning and that makes me uncomfortable. I feel like I should be climbing the walls right now. I feel like my Saturdays should be filled with plans and activities. Instead, I went to the spa last Saturday and I'm planning on sleeping this Saturday. But I should be doing SOMETHING-right? Like...hmmm...I can't think of anything...HELP!

Apartment

We have an apartment! What a surprise! We went out Saturday morning on our first apartment viewing, taking precious time from Andrew's dissertation writing, we had scheduled three apartment viewings for the next three Saturday mornings hoping that an early viewing wouldn't impede too much on Andrew's time. We want to move into our apartment as soon as we return from Ireland and Canada on the 30th of July, the earliest date we expected to be able to move in was the 1st of August, leaving us in a hotel for two nights. Most of the apartments I had contacted told us that they wouldn't know until 30 days before move in if there was any available units, that would mean ringing complexes around our wedding time and maybe even from abroad to check availability. Our plan was to look at various complexes and decide on our favourites, then ring them from Ireland or Canada in the hope that there would be an availability in August-not the best way to do things, but the only way we could because we don't want to pay for an apartment in July when we wouldn't even be living in LA all of that month.

So we went to the apartment complex. Geographically it was the closest for both of us to work. It was situated on a cul-de-sac, which made it nice and quiet (for LA) but it was also situated two blocks north and two blocks south of major roads = good transport!

A 'leasing expert' showed us around two apartments at first and we liked one of them. She was about to bring us back to the office when she remembered that there was one other apartment that was newly refurbished within our budget. She also remembered that someone was moving into that apartment for 3 months this week, which means that they would be moving out on the 23rd of July which would make the apartment available when we get back to LA! We couldn't believe it! And we really liked the apartment. We went away to think about it. She offered us some incentives to sign up that day. We thought about it and we returned and we paid our holding deposit. We couldn't believe how quickly we ended up finding a great apartment in a perfect location-and knowing it's availability way ahead of time! It's a great load off our shoulders, Andrew's time no longer needs to be impinged upon and we can also move in as soon as we return to LA. Jehovah Jirah!

Apartment website:

http://www.westparkvillageapts.com