Still looking for a place

I had an adventure this weekend.

I didn't really want to. I wanted to stay in Portland, but after not getting that apartment I had to look for some more. Now normally my dad would just take me south for the weekend, but he had something going on Saturday and my mom was going to drive me there.

I failed to get any appointments for Saturday, but I couldn't just stay in Portland because there might be new ads on Sunday morning. This put me in kind of a bad mood because there was specific hanging out I wanted to do and I did not want to put it off all weekend. I complained a little bit and my mom suggested paying gas money to my friend to drive me down there. I wasn't even sure he'd want to drive that much, but he was into it. We hung out in town a little while, then drove down I-5 to Salem and visited the waterfront before heading to my dad's.

The plan had been to stay at my dad's overnight, and then we'd drive to Eugene in the morning. By chaotic luck, my dad had a work situation encroaching all the way into Sunday and couldn't make the drive to Eugene anymore. So it ended up that my friend took me to my uncle's house in Corvallis on his way to his brother's in Eugene. (I almost could have stayed there, but they weren't necessarily spending the night.) My uncle took me to Eugene to go apartment hunting in the morning, drove me up to Salem and we had dinner with my dad before he drove me the rest of the way to Portland.

I saw one apartment, and I like it even better than the apartment I didn't get last week. The previous one was a studio that might have been a remodeled garage; this one is one side of a duplex with a bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen. It has laundry and a little bit of space in the back as well. I really hope I get this one, not only because of the time crunch but because it seems just perfect. I hope this is one of those "meant to be" things and not a "wishful thinking" one.

In the event that I don't get this apartment, I'll have to take a midweek trip which will be a pain in the butt. But I'll have to look at some rooms, and I'll have to contact some property management companies, which have mostly been closed on weekends thus far. Both these places I've looked at are with independent landlords, and I prefer that, but they're not as common, or at least not as easy to find on the internet.