Sweet Magnolia?

[ravencallscrows]

Well, it looks as if we may be moving, and fairly soon.
Regular readers of this column will have read about damashita's second mom here before. Well, the place next door to her is coming open for rent. It's in the Magnolia District of Seattle. It's a two bedroom place, and will be rented for $750 a month, which seems like a phenomenal rate for the area.
I'm so excited. It'd be a hell of a lot less of a commute where ever i end up working- which realistically will be in the city or on the East Side, and it'd be so much easier to have a social life- since going to see someone, to the club or one of the area events wouldn't take the planning and resources that the hour plus drive does now.
I'm incredibly jazzed by the possibilities.
I'll probably be going for a wander around downtown this afternoon, just to process things- for whatever reason, although sometimes solitude is a good thing for thinking, today i feel like having people around. I'll keep my 'Lectronic Leash *silly grin* with me and turned on, i'll be accessible. 360.202.4326. Hopefully that phone number will soon be changing to a new area code.....

Edit: 2:35 p.m.: Heading into town shortly. Should be in the area 3:30-4:00-ish

Comments

[jeffrey.livejournal.com]

Well, here's hoping you get the new place! I had an hour or so commute back and forth to school everyday for a year and a half, and it was much less than fun. And I know your commute is even longer than that, and you've been doing it for longer too. Just imagine all the time you'd have freed up from driving. :)

[ithilien.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's huge - I hope you get it! What part of Seattle is the Magnolia District?

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[imsosquare.livejournal.com]

Whee!!!
It would be SO wonderful to have you all closer!!!
Keep me up to date on what's happening.

Hell! I'll even volunteer WELL in advance to help you move if it will help get you guys here faster!

[skyewolf1.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Good for you two! It's great to have something good happen in your life. (could you send a little of that luck my way please?) :) Congratulations on the new diggs

[turtlegrrl13.livejournal.com]

Many Congrats!!! I'm not doing so good on looking for a 2 bedroom place. Maye if I made more of an attempt, something would turn up.

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[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

This one ended up being a sorta "fell into the lap" thing. Not going to look this gift horse in the mouth. Especially not since the rent/utility differential between what i'm paying now and what it's estimated to be works out to around $100 a month- and even if i ended up driving to work each day, the drive distance would be something like 60-80 miles less a day (right now, it's somewhere around 130 miles round trip). Just the gas savings alone would seem to make that up....

Congrats Vanya!

[arienm.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good place, and I'm sure that a lot less commuting will do wonders for your stress levels, your son, you and your wife. :)
All the luck!

[gwynn-aaron.livejournal.com]

I'm very happy to hear this, my friend. I think it sounds like it will be a dramatic improvement in your situation. So tell us a bit more about the house and about the area. Is the house larger than what you are in now? Does it have much of a yard, and what kind of street is it on? I know Vanessa is in the habit of walking a lot of places from where you live now. Will she be able to do so in the new place or is the area not as self-contained? What kind of place is Magnolia? I remember hearing the name when we were out there, but I can't recall if we heard it in the context of where it was...

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[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

Magnolia is in North Seattle. It's just south of the Ballard bridge- this is the dividing point between the two neighbourhoods.
The place is actually smaller than what we have now, and isn't as convenient to stores- but that'd be hard to duplicate given the range of things within a tenth of a mile from where we are now. Not a lot of a yard, but should be enough for the little boy to play in.
All in all, initial assessment is that although there are some things which aren't ideal, ideal is something which almost never happens, and it'll be a lot more convenient to a different set of things.

[inanna.livejournal.com]

Hey all! i figure those who read this thread (but not mine) will also have great energy to share.

While this house is very promising, it isn't a done-deal yet. SO, please send lots of good energy our way. We should know more by the middle/end of next week.

Thanks!!

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and, honey..... i love you. Thank you for everything