Patience is a Virtue

I once read the reward of patience is patience, which is in short supply these days. Had a day where few things went right following a couple of days of the same and kept looking for the "reset" button.

We've run into a SNAFU with the apartment we were meant to move into THIS WEEKEND. Forget that it really requires a car to live there, forget that we have no furniture of any kind to put in it, forget that the reviews on Yelp! were apprehensive-making concerning the management company's squirrely-ness. What nearly scuttled us was more insidious: because I foreclosed on my condo I am now a credit risk and they were demanding a much larger deposit than we had initially put down a month ago.

Now I know when 1 out of 9 homes in the US is in foreclosure, I am in good company credit-wise. This seemed a weird time for a management company to attempt to squeeze potential tenants. We looked at some other places and even put in an application at a few, but we will probably go with the crappy management place because it is a short-term lease and we will just have to suck it up for a while.

For the first time in my dog's 7-year life I seriously considered giving her up. We are having such difficulty finding a place that takes dogs and she seems really unhappy and anxious despite medication. She deserves better than me yelling at her all the time -- she is an absolute loyal sweetheart of a dog. (Ok, she could stop the counter surfing, but otherwise she is really the best dog.)

I miss the pressure valve of yoga. We literally don't have the 3 square feet it would take for me to do it, not to mention the lack of quiet. I am ready for a big fat miracle. I don't want to have to squint my eyes and tilt my head to see it either -- just a clear, positive uptick to our circumstance.

One happy thing this week: I got a Mother's Day card that plays the jazzy piano piece from Peanuts. Whenever Olivia hears it she gets a pie-eating grin on her face and starts dancing around, flopping her head from side to side just like the cartoon kids. It's a hoot!