some news.

tonight we found our new home! it is a small, cozy, two-bedroom, old house on the east side, completely renovated, with a front porch and a plot for a vegetable garden in the back, all for the price of what i've been paying per month on the money sucking apartment. i felt creatively awakened the moment the landlady showed us through the front door, and we both knew that we wanted this house. the move-in date will be may 1st. i can bid farewell to apartment life. at long last.

the realtor who took us to view several houses this weekend told us that we would never find a good house in the price range we wanted in central austin. i thought that was bullshit. i drove through the quaint neighborhoods i would want to live in, writing down phone numbers on the back of receipts and making calls to find out prices. our house is not only what we wanted to pay for rent but is located in the prime area of the city and has all the features we have been searching for in a home, and other houses are available in this price range. my faith in do-it-yourself was restored.

she had taken us to see rather bland houses on the north side of the city, and in one that was built in the fifties, i had a creepy feeling in the kitchen that it was haunted, that something bad had happened in that kitchen. given that i have had to move out from a place due to a haunting, i learned to trust what i feel and announced that i had a negative feeling about living in that house and wanted to leave right away. the realtor gave me this deer-in-headlights look and could not sense it. my housemate admitted she did as well. i believe that houses can retain the energy of people who have lived there before, and sometimes, you are not alone when you think you are. i had a positive feeling in our house. no disturbing vibes. my housemate asked me point blank about the "reading" i got on spirits. ha.