Success

suhk-ses   n:  the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors.


       Well, I'm a little late in posting this but we finally found an apartment!  We made the mistake of looking around the east and north side of Austin on our first apartment searching trip.  We had settled our minds on one only to find terrible crime and reviews.  So as I mentioned in my last post, my mother and I decided to take another trip to Austin.  This time we focused on the area very close to the school and department, as well as directly south.  Unfortunately, once we got there everything was either sleazy or very expensive.  Then we made our way to the west.  YAY!  There are some gorgeous places to the west of Austin!  That is apparently where the "hill country" starts (and man does it live up to that name!  I will need to replace my brakes before going.)   We didn't have a lot of time, but we got to see some we liked! For some bizarre reason there are a ton of nice apartments for good prices in that area!  By the end of the day we were exhausted, hadn't eaten since 9am, and still had a few places we wanted to see, so we had my dad bid on a hotel for us on priceline.  We found this awesome shopping/dining area called The Domain (I'm going to have a lot of fun there) and ate at Gloria's before buying clothes at Macy's for the next day.  I'm sure we looked pretty funny walking into the Hyatt with nothing but ourselves and a couple of Macy's bags!  It felt like a scene from a classic hollywood movie...maybe  sometime with Katharine Hepburn!  =D We had to ask the front desk for toothbrushes and toothpaste.  
       The next morning we had time to visit four more apartments before heading home to see my sister and her boyfriend.  I narrowed it down to my four top choices and presented them to Danielle through email.  We talked it out and choose one which I think will be great!  It is possibly one of the best locations that we visited!  This place has an amazing hill top view of the city and is only about 15 minutes away from the department!  I just mailed my application off this morning and we should be able to move in on the 30th!  
       So for now I am packing up my little garage apartment in Fort Worth and getting it all ready to go to Austin after Christmas.  I didn't realize how much stuff I had managed to fit into this tiny place!  I'm definitely going to miss this place though!  It's so cozy and quaint.