MarieLightning
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 23, 2012
Big Changes Coming!
Alright, so there's been a bit of a stand still in the trip planning because... well, because we're still a little over a week from our FastPass+ selection and Online Check In dates, and most of my crafting is either done or waiting for another lull in planning to be completed, so there's really not much to be done!
Next week I'll probably post what we hope to get for our FastPass+ selection - in certain cases, it'll be very different from what we usually go for - but I'm waiting until that's all settled before I start talking of day schedules. I've started working on them, and they're pretty ambitious, but I'm writing them as more of a guideline than a Must Follow Perfectly, because it's hard to know when people may want to take a break, and who will stick around all day, and what the people taking a break won't want to miss, and so on.
For right now though, I didn't want to leave this PTR without an update for a full two weeks, so I'm doing a short real life update!
Tomorrow, Amber and I are going into Montreal with the hopes of signing for an apartment lease.
That's right, we're moving!
That is exceedingly exciting news to us, although also very anxiety filled. But mostly exciting.
See, when Amber got sick and I left home and work for six months, without getting paid, but still having expenses over there (and well, okay, we went to Disney, but that was a post chemo treat so I can't really regret it) that did away with the gross majority of my savings.
We then still had our May 2014 trip planned, and we didn't want to do away with it. My parents being the generous souls that they are, knew we'd need to fall back on our feet after what had happened anyway, so they offered to let us stay home longer than planned.
Amber landed as a Canadian resident in April 2014, and then we figured we'd wait until the new year to start looking, and keep saving up.
Then my mom started talking about how we should wait a bit longer, maybe try and see if Amber would be able to get a job in the summer, because she didn't feel comfortable with us moving out only on my salary. So she told us if we wanted to stay until summer time, that we should do so. We decided to take the offer, since that would allow us to save up more money, and also give Amber more time to learn French.
We started looking for a place a few months back, but with Amber doing full time French classes all summer, we figured it'd be better for her to wait until we come back from Disney to get a job, so it came back down to finding a place that would fit out budget with only one income. And in Montreal, that's more than a little tricky.
All of this to say, we have now, finally, found a place!
We went to visit it last weekend, and at first we'd talked about trying to move in mid September, but they weren't sure they had anything for us. The guy was supposed to look to try and find something this week, but nothing came up available, aside from one semi basement with a very small bedroom.
The reason we were aiming for mid September was because Amber is starting night classes this coming Monday, because she's applying to be a Nurse, but courses in the States and Canada are different, and she's missing some things that would be the equivalent to what is required here for Science. The advisor also recommended she re-do some Math, so that other people who graduated more recently don't have an advantage over her.
That would have meant leaving home at 7 each morning to get to French classes at 8:30, until 3:30, then having nothing to do for three hours in Montreal, before finally heading into night classes until 9:30, catching the bus home at 10:30 and only getting back here at 11:30.
Four days a week.
But with nothing available for mid September, she made the decision to stop French classes for now, and she'll pick right back up in January, since she won't start Nursing classes til the Fall.
So we called the guy back and told him October 1st would do for us if that made it easier to find something, and he said it definitely would.
As such, we have an appointment tomorrow to go see a few more places that will actually be available to us, and make a decision based on that! Meaning tonight I need to get a money order and all my other papers in order.
We're definitely looking forward to finally being able to live as a couple, even though there will most likely be some stressful moments as well. We've already started looking into decorations idea, and I had a canvas print made through Photobucket with the following design.
We also printed these four quotes on a 5 x 7 photo print, which will go around an enlarged pictures of our trip in May, with the six of us girls in front of the castle.
I also really really want to put this in our bathroom, but we haven't printed it yet.
And then there's a bunch more pictures we printed as well because apparently over the years I accumulated a lot of frames to use for when we'd move out!
So that's it for today. If we visit 'the' place tomorrow, and we're able to take pictures, I'll give you guys a peek on Sunday!
Alright, so there's been a bit of a stand still in the trip planning because... well, because we're still a little over a week from our FastPass+ selection and Online Check In dates, and most of my crafting is either done or waiting for another lull in planning to be completed, so there's really not much to be done!
Next week I'll probably post what we hope to get for our FastPass+ selection - in certain cases, it'll be very different from what we usually go for - but I'm waiting until that's all settled before I start talking of day schedules. I've started working on them, and they're pretty ambitious, but I'm writing them as more of a guideline than a Must Follow Perfectly, because it's hard to know when people may want to take a break, and who will stick around all day, and what the people taking a break won't want to miss, and so on.
For right now though, I didn't want to leave this PTR without an update for a full two weeks, so I'm doing a short real life update!
Tomorrow, Amber and I are going into Montreal with the hopes of signing for an apartment lease.
That's right, we're moving!
That is exceedingly exciting news to us, although also very anxiety filled. But mostly exciting.
See, when Amber got sick and I left home and work for six months, without getting paid, but still having expenses over there (and well, okay, we went to Disney, but that was a post chemo treat so I can't really regret it) that did away with the gross majority of my savings.
We then still had our May 2014 trip planned, and we didn't want to do away with it. My parents being the generous souls that they are, knew we'd need to fall back on our feet after what had happened anyway, so they offered to let us stay home longer than planned.
Amber landed as a Canadian resident in April 2014, and then we figured we'd wait until the new year to start looking, and keep saving up.
Then my mom started talking about how we should wait a bit longer, maybe try and see if Amber would be able to get a job in the summer, because she didn't feel comfortable with us moving out only on my salary. So she told us if we wanted to stay until summer time, that we should do so. We decided to take the offer, since that would allow us to save up more money, and also give Amber more time to learn French.
We started looking for a place a few months back, but with Amber doing full time French classes all summer, we figured it'd be better for her to wait until we come back from Disney to get a job, so it came back down to finding a place that would fit out budget with only one income. And in Montreal, that's more than a little tricky.
All of this to say, we have now, finally, found a place!
We went to visit it last weekend, and at first we'd talked about trying to move in mid September, but they weren't sure they had anything for us. The guy was supposed to look to try and find something this week, but nothing came up available, aside from one semi basement with a very small bedroom.
The reason we were aiming for mid September was because Amber is starting night classes this coming Monday, because she's applying to be a Nurse, but courses in the States and Canada are different, and she's missing some things that would be the equivalent to what is required here for Science. The advisor also recommended she re-do some Math, so that other people who graduated more recently don't have an advantage over her.
That would have meant leaving home at 7 each morning to get to French classes at 8:30, until 3:30, then having nothing to do for three hours in Montreal, before finally heading into night classes until 9:30, catching the bus home at 10:30 and only getting back here at 11:30.
Four days a week.
But with nothing available for mid September, she made the decision to stop French classes for now, and she'll pick right back up in January, since she won't start Nursing classes til the Fall.
So we called the guy back and told him October 1st would do for us if that made it easier to find something, and he said it definitely would.
As such, we have an appointment tomorrow to go see a few more places that will actually be available to us, and make a decision based on that! Meaning tonight I need to get a money order and all my other papers in order.
We're definitely looking forward to finally being able to live as a couple, even though there will most likely be some stressful moments as well. We've already started looking into decorations idea, and I had a canvas print made through Photobucket with the following design.
We also printed these four quotes on a 5 x 7 photo print, which will go around an enlarged pictures of our trip in May, with the six of us girls in front of the castle.
I also really really want to put this in our bathroom, but we haven't printed it yet.
And then there's a bunch more pictures we printed as well because apparently over the years I accumulated a lot of frames to use for when we'd move out!
So that's it for today. If we visit 'the' place tomorrow, and we're able to take pictures, I'll give you guys a peek on Sunday!
Though no I was getting pretty anxious, I wished you'd been awake still when I came across the couple of minor issues XD Oh well, it all worked out in the end. And you did do cleaning so you are forgiven.
