House Hunting

I lived and worked in Orem, Clayton lived in Hooper and worked in Clearfield. Now I live in Hooper and work in Orem. Yeah, that can't last, that's a 1 1/2 commute. Eeeh!!!

That's why for the past month and a half we've been looking online for places to rent that are more of a half way- me working in Orem and Clayton stayin in Clearfield. Internet searching is pretty tricky though. Some places look really nice online, and then you go and they're not all that fantastic. Or, like one we found in Salt Lake, the place is great, but it's in a shady shady part of town.

I've never actually had to find the places I've lived at. When I lived with my parents, I obviously didn't get a say in those houses, and when I went off to college, I called my family while I was taking the SATs and they signed me up for housing there. When I moved out of the doorms I always had roommates that had strong opinions on where to move, so I followed. It kind of happened a little bit that way with the place we're moving into now. (Yeah, we found a place if you didn't catch on with that last comment.) Autumn's uncle lives at this place and so he kind of introduced us to the place, well, actually Autumn really introduced it to us, I still don't know who the uncle is :o)

I'm excited for it. First of all, it's an 800 sq. foot one bedroom apartment, which is pretty big for a one bedroom (well, at least in our price range, I'm sure they come larger). And, we get some sweet discounts because Clay-dough's a student, I'm a teacher, and we're signing a 12 month lease. It's a cute little place too. The kitchen opens up into the living room/dining room, the walk-in closet is the size of a small room, we have a little balconly, and the facility has volley ball courts, and a pool and jacuzi, a weight room, and I'm sure it has more, but we'll find out more about it when we move in.

That's the only down side, we can't move in until mid August, when my timeline was more along the lines of already being moved in by today. Oh well, it's way closer to my school than we were originally thinking, and Clayton's going to take the train to work which saves gas money and miles on his car. So it's all working out-- like it always eventually does ;o) Hunt comlete!

It's Almost All the Way Official

Holy gracious. Men get off easy, they get to keep their names. I think that when you get married, they should hand the wife a list right away of all the things she has to change. This sure has been a hastel for me. Maybe I'm just clueless and everyone else already knew, but there's a ton to do. I first had to change my social, that way I could change my license, that way I could change the name my car was registered under. I also had to change my name at the district office and put Clayton on my insurance (oh, that's a whole other fiasco on it's own). I've been put onto Clayton's bank account (who misspelled my name on my cards, so they have to send me new ones) and I'll close mine out at the end of the summer, because my summer checks are already lined up to go into my current account. My loans and car payments I'm not changing because I figure as long as they get paid, they don't care what the name on the check is.

So there are basically only two things left for me to change. I need to close out my bank account so I stop signing Brooke Kerby everywhere, and I need to change my temple recommend so they stop welcoming to the temple as Sister Kerby. I think that's funny. They should just change the name for you right there, as long as we're at the temple already, and they know I'm worthy, they should have just filled in my last name. Oh well. It's almost all the way official now :o)