Our day date at Dankook was more or less to discuss something that we've been putting off for awhile now -- to move or not to move. We've been house-hunting for the past couple of weeks and it's been so incredibly discouraging. The goal of our house-hunting was to find a smaller place that has a yard for our four-legged pups. Snickers and I really aren't home so much to need a 12-room apartment like we currently have. Pyen Chi is super lazy, so when we're not outside playing or walking her, she's at home sleeping. Pacquiao basically sticks to jumping on our couch and chairs like they're one big jungle gym so he's good to go with just that to play on and as for Balboa, well, he's a 3kg Chihuahua so even just one room is massive to him. Our house is really just for them so we'd love to get an apartment with a yard for them to really be able to run around in and go wild if they please. However, tell a landlord you have 3 four-legged friends and you're almost guaranteed to be rejected. Now tell them you have three screaming babies, triplets, and all of a sudden they're interested. I much rather prefer someone with dogs over babies, if you ask me. Anyways, house-hunting has been extremely frustrating. Changing apartments would mean us saving money on rent, possibly getting a chunk of our key deposit back and, of course, our four-legged babies being so much happier if they were out having fun in the sun.
We gave it a solid two weeks and all we're left with now is more discouragement and frustration than when we started, so we think we're going to have to do something drastic, perhaps something maybe most will shake their heads at.
We're moving into Hulk's.
Moving into Hulk's means we'll be throwing out most of our furniture and having to renovate certain parts of our club. However, it also means we'll be getting our large key deposit back and every month we'll be saving on the money we would have been having to hand over for rent plus all the utlity expenses that come with our apartment. It'll be great to get that key deposit back but we've already designated where we will direct a chunk of it -- two large heater/air conditioners. It gets way too hot at Hulk's in the summer and it's too dang cold in the winter at the club. Both extreme situations surely discourage members to come and also cost of potential members so we figure we'll make back the money if we can better control the comfort level within the club.
I was ok with this decision when we were at Dankook talking about it, that is until I came home and realized that there'd be no more family room sleepovers and lazy Saturdays lounging around on the floor. I will have no home -- I will be technically homeless -- and the thought of this kind of hit a sensitive spot. I thought about if my father were to come and visit us. Where would he sleep? And on my day offs, would I be forced to hide out in the bedroom and wonder if anyone would accidentally open up the door on me?
I feel somewhat hesitant and sad now, knowing that soon I will be giving up my home but I know I have to look at the bigger picture. Our plan was to never stay in our current home very long because we do want to save money and get an actual house. We're even looking into buying property and designing our own actually. So really giving up our apartment and living a year in somewhat discomfort is nothing in comparison to the house it'll eventually lead us to getting and the years of pure comfort. None the less, it's still hard to digest it all. I miss my home already.
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