February is over! Well, practically. There’s still tomorrow to get through. Then it will be March… the month that Jan was supposed to be moving. Actually, the month Jan has to move seeing as he starts his new job on the 1st of April!! Today I am leaving work early to go to Basel again. Jan is already there, and has about 10 flats to view today. I wish I was exaggerating! Then we’ll be staying overnight because we have another viewing tomorrow… at 8 a.m. In the meantime, we’ve had our second rejection. Oh joy. Here are this week’s letters. Apologies in advance for any negativity.
Dear Basel flat owners/agencies. Please could one of you just offer us a flat?! If I’d known it was going to be this difficult I would have started looking in December, and then taken a week off just to go to viewings.
Dear February. I know you’re the shortest month, but you’ve gone by way too fast this year! Between work and flat hunting, I’ve forgotten what a social life even is… and I still haven’t been to 90% of the places in Karlsruhe I wanted to visit before we leave.
Dear boyfriend. I know it’s your birthday on Sunday, and I’m very sorry, but the main part of your present hasn’t actually arrived yet. I’m hoping it will be waiting for me when we get back from Basel tomorrow!
Dear weather. How kind of you to be sunny/warm all week then start to rain just as we reach the weekend! (//end sarcasm)
Dear books. When did you get to be so many? I packed 2 boxes with you last night, yet anyone coming to our flat for the first time would assume all my books were still on the bookcases! I think we may need another bookcase once we’re in the new flat!
Dear work. Thank you for letting me leave early today (and last Friday). I will make it up to you once we finally find somewhere to live!
That’s all folks. I hope your weekend is less busy/stressful than mine is shaping up to be.
Confuzzledom 
Hang on in there, you’ll get there with the flats! Hopefully this rainy weekend will be your flat finding weekend!
The amount Jan is looking at today surely ONE of them has to want us?! Most of them are actually just outside Basel though, which isn’t really what we wanted so will probably mean ANOTHER move in a year (although if Jan’s trial period doesn’t work out, we’ll have to move in 6 months anyway)
ugh, finding flats is THE WORST even without having to do it remotely! Hope something works out soon!
Sounds like you have had a stressful February ! I hope you find a flat, the time for a social life and to visit those places you wanted to see before you leave. Although it probably won’t happen there just doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day, maybe we should make days longer ?!? 🙂
I have my fingers crossed that this weekend you see some flats you like, and then get offered so many that you find it hard to choose!
I had a text from Jan saying of the ones he saw this morning 1 was ok, one was nice but the location is “meh” and the third one is NICE (his caps). Now he’s off to the next one.
Well, it’s a start if one of the first three is nice. 🙂 Only seven more to go today…
Ugh I have been there with the apartment hunting – it is brutal and awful and I hope for you guys that something comes up in the very near future. Courage!
Thank you. I’m off to Basel by myself tomorrow!! Hope I don’t get lost
I clearly need another bookshelf as well! Apartment hunting can be so tiring! I am keeping my fingers crossed!
Good luck! Keeping my fingers crossed for success this weekend. I don’t envy you the hassle and stress – moving is never fun – but you’ve got a lot of people cheering you on! 🙂 Toi toi toi!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Switzerland
🙂
Oh man, you’ve really got in in for Switzerland!!! 😉
Let’s just say I’m curious to read some posts about life there 😉 My friend lived there for a couple of years – she’s HAPPY to be in Berlin 😉
All I can think of is cheese, cake, cheese, chocolate, and more cheese. And hiking. What more do you need…?
Suicide, apparently 😉
Death by cheese fondue. Where do I sign up?
At the Suicideamt 😉
I’m starting to think you’re trying to suggest something 😉 Surely the land of chocolate can’t be all that bad?!
Flush your loo after 10pm and you’ll find out 😉
At this rate I’m not going to have a loo to flush at any time of day!
No luck this weekend either?
Who knows. We’ve filled in and emailed 8 forms, but we won’t find out the decision for 1-2 weeks probably. In the meantime, we continue to search…
I’m sure you’ll be so relieved when it’s all over and you’re in your nice silent apartment! 🙂
Love that you added a little bit of HTML into your writing there (//blogger talk). Sorry to hear of your second rejection. I really, really do hope that you are able to find something this weekend. In the meantime, enjoy the fact that it is March.
I’m so with you on the book front. I have sooo many, and many more on my Kindle. I want to take a week off of work just to read them!
Oh my sounds like you’re having a really stressful time with the flat hunting! I hope you manage to get something sorted this weekend.
Here’s hoping for some good news next week!
ps~ There is no such thing as “too many” books. 🙂
Thanks. If we don’t get some good news soon I won’t need a flat… I’ll have a perfectly good room in the loony bin!
Hey, some days the loony bin sounds like a perfectly relaxing option…
I hope you two had a nice time celebrating on Sunday!
Flat hunting sounds like such a drama! What kind of reasons do they give for rejecting you? That sounds a bit strange, shouldn’t you reject them?!
They don’t really give a reason – just “we chose someone else”
Sounds like you have a lot on your plate. Good luck with finding a flat and with the move! It’s been raining here as well on the weekends and to be honest, I don’t mind too much, it gives me a chance to just sit at home and try to relax.