So the big news on the Giraud front is that we are going to move, probably by the end of February. To think we finally got all the pictures hung on the walls just last week...sigh. :) Since I started working our rent took a huge increase (we are in subsidized housing while Gavin is in school), so we decided we should look elsewhere. The big thing we're looking for is cheap rent and we have a couple of options. The first one is a complex where a bunch of our ward members live--it's nice, 2 bed 1 bath, good location, great neighbors...I think it would be an awesome place to live. The second place, is, yup, you guessed it, one of the trailer parks here in Moscow. There were 3 of them 
available and we went and checked them out today. I really liked the first one--it had a wood stove which would be AWESOME for our heating bill, new carpet, 2 bedrooms and it was decent sized, but the bathroom was...umm...less than desirable, lets just put it that way. The second one is the one we're considering most--new bathroom (major plus! The first one had a mauve toilet...), cheap rent, smaller living room but still plenty big, good sized kitchen, nicer on the outside, but the carpet was old...I really liked the new carpet of the first place. The third one was ruled out the second I walked in the door. I stepped in and was like "AH! THIS PLACE SMELLS LIKE PEE!" Which is really too bad 
because it had decent carpet, the nicest kitchen and a decent bathroom. But seriously...there's NO way I can get over that smell. And who knows what peed where to make it smell like that. Sick. Anyways. So those are our options. It's $50 difference between the first and second one (first is more expensive). So what do you think? The more sensible side of me says "Go live in a nice apartment for $40-80 more a month!" But there's part of me, I suppose it's my inner-white-girl-trailer-trash, that thinks the trailer park would be such a grand adventure!!! I think it would be so much fun to look back and think how ghetto we lived while we were in school. And $80 a month is kind of a lot to save. So between the trailers, what do we sacrifice? A nice bathroom with old carpet? Or bad bathroom with nice carpet? And is that carpet worth $50 more a month? Can I pee on a mauve toilet? Such tough choices. :) We'll keep you posted. For now, keep your eyes peeled for me some cowgirl boots--if I'm going to live in a trailer I'm totally going to rock the cut-off shorts and boots look. Hot stuff.
available and we went and checked them out today. I really liked the first one--it had a wood stove which would be AWESOME for our heating bill, new carpet, 2 bedrooms and it was decent sized, but the bathroom was...umm...less than desirable, lets just put it that way. The second one is the one we're considering most--new bathroom (major plus! The first one had a mauve toilet...), cheap rent, smaller living room but still plenty big, good sized kitchen, nicer on the outside, but the carpet was old...I really liked the new carpet of the first place. The third one was ruled out the second I walked in the door. I stepped in and was like "AH! THIS PLACE SMELLS LIKE PEE!" Which is really too bad 
because it had decent carpet, the nicest kitchen and a decent bathroom. But seriously...there's NO way I can get over that smell. And who knows what peed where to make it smell like that. Sick. Anyways. So those are our options. It's $50 difference between the first and second one (first is more expensive). So what do you think? The more sensible side of me says "Go live in a nice apartment for $40-80 more a month!" But there's part of me, I suppose it's my inner-white-girl-trailer-trash, that thinks the trailer park would be such a grand adventure!!! I think it would be so much fun to look back and think how ghetto we lived while we were in school. And $80 a month is kind of a lot to save. So between the trailers, what do we sacrifice? A nice bathroom with old carpet? Or bad bathroom with nice carpet? And is that carpet worth $50 more a month? Can I pee on a mauve toilet? Such tough choices. :) We'll keep you posted. For now, keep your eyes peeled for me some cowgirl boots--if I'm going to live in a trailer I'm totally going to rock the cut-off shorts and boots look. Hot stuff.
