friday

As we were getting the kids up and ready this morning to go over to the office, we got a call (from the maintenance guy, she didn't have the guts to call herself) that the manager would not be meeting with us and would not be extending our lease.

It's kind of like God's saying, "OK, you folks are just too hardheaded. You've got rats, you broke your toe kicking a door, your cat disappeared, someone got into your car, both of you got what look like spider bites while sleeping, and you still want to stay? Nuh-uh. I'll take care of that."

So, yeah, I guess we'll just try to look on the bright side. Not totally sure what we'll do at this point. We saw some other apartments, but they were just awful. We got preapproved for a mortgage (from the French, "death pledge") and what might be a good opportunity kind of fell into our laps...an old friend of my dad's is probably going to be selling his house. Jon went over today and saw it and really liked it. So, maybe that's what we'll do. I think we're going to email him and see if we can go over to see it as a family in a few days. Based upon the speculated asking price, we think it wouldn't be more than our rent, and it sounds like utility costs are comparable. I'm kind of really excited about that idea.

Jon's off today and he's gone off to Juma at the local masjid, so hopefully we'll start to get to know the Muslim community here.

Guess we'll see what the next week brings...