Spa nights and new homes
Mar. 24th, 2025 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laurenafAccidentally had a little 'spa night' tonight :D
My boss and direct supervisor are both out of town all week so I must admit it makes my work day a lot less stressful. So going on the fact that I'm less stressed out at the end of the day I decided to do something I'd been thinking about for a bit and color my hair. It's a red violet shade and it's kinda 'meh' right now but in my experience that's how box dyes work. Especially darker colors. Right now it just looks DARK but after a few washes it should brighten up and I think I'll like it a lot. Plus I'm hoping for another day of motivation to put in a few highlights. Then in should make for a good spring look. Also while waiting for the color to set I used my new favorite Lush face mask (Date Night! I strongly endorse it!! When I used it the first time I washed it off and was like "holy crap! I can visibly see my skin looks prettier!") And then I have a couple little pimples that popped up and I'd bought the patches you see all over now just to see what I think so trying those tonight too. Like I said: Spontaneous Spa Night :P
Other excitement? Last week I finally made moves toward what I've been thinking since moving into this crappy disappointing apartment last August which is to BUY A CONDO next time! I contacted a realtor two of my coworkers used and highly recommended. (Good recommendation! She's great.) She immediately got me in touch with her favorite loan guy so now she's looking for places for me and I'm pre-approved for a loan. I looked at my first two places on Sunday and....I pretty much loved the first one! My realtor is so cute because she was like "you'll learn about me...I don't like to look too much into a place you want to see first. I like to walk in with you and give my gut reaction so I'll just start talking the minute you walk in" I get it and can see where that's helpful having experienced it now and she was as excited as I was about the first place. It was also cute that she kept saying "I'm so impressed! You did REALLY WELL for your first showing!" Now there ARE some issues. Not so much with the place, more with the seller. She found that out later and let me know. (The seller has apparently rejected every offer so far including the ones who didn't try to haggle and just straight up offered list price. Seller apparently wants people to offer more and fight over it. Insert eye roll.) She was also right there with me one the second place when it was kinda disappointing and was like "yeah, it's the same price point as the first one and just not as good"
But I thought about it a lot and I just don't think it's a good idea to break my lease early. I'd probably have to pay a fair chunk to do that and I'm also worried about my current complex having this promotion when I moved in of after one month lease they gave you a gift card equivalent to one month's lease. BUT...I read rules on it stating some or all could have to be paid back if you didn't satisfy the lease. I held off using it at first because of that (and because I hated this apartment so much. I saw that as a real possibility.) But there were time limits too and the longer I stayed the more I wanted to take advantage of it because if I stay they fucking OWE me that much. I've used all but $150 at this point because it will all expire at the end of this month. I don't want to pay to break a lease AND pay them back the $900 I used from this promotion. I just hope I don't regret passing up this place. Of course sounds there's also a chance I wouldn't get it. I mean I'd be OK with offering list price but not $1 more. Don't be stupid, seller. I saw they bought the place 2.5 years ago. Sounds to me like they bought it still in the runoff of Covid times when people were just throwing cash and fighting over places and are upset that's not still happening. They're going to have to learn it's not. But I have 5 months still to look. So hoping if I say no to this one I'll still find something just as good or better at a more convenient time.
I'm still giving it one more day before I officially tell my realtor this decision though. It was a great condo....
My boss and direct supervisor are both out of town all week so I must admit it makes my work day a lot less stressful. So going on the fact that I'm less stressed out at the end of the day I decided to do something I'd been thinking about for a bit and color my hair. It's a red violet shade and it's kinda 'meh' right now but in my experience that's how box dyes work. Especially darker colors. Right now it just looks DARK but after a few washes it should brighten up and I think I'll like it a lot. Plus I'm hoping for another day of motivation to put in a few highlights. Then in should make for a good spring look. Also while waiting for the color to set I used my new favorite Lush face mask (Date Night! I strongly endorse it!! When I used it the first time I washed it off and was like "holy crap! I can visibly see my skin looks prettier!") And then I have a couple little pimples that popped up and I'd bought the patches you see all over now just to see what I think so trying those tonight too. Like I said: Spontaneous Spa Night :P
Other excitement? Last week I finally made moves toward what I've been thinking since moving into this crappy disappointing apartment last August which is to BUY A CONDO next time! I contacted a realtor two of my coworkers used and highly recommended. (Good recommendation! She's great.) She immediately got me in touch with her favorite loan guy so now she's looking for places for me and I'm pre-approved for a loan. I looked at my first two places on Sunday and....I pretty much loved the first one! My realtor is so cute because she was like "you'll learn about me...I don't like to look too much into a place you want to see first. I like to walk in with you and give my gut reaction so I'll just start talking the minute you walk in" I get it and can see where that's helpful having experienced it now and she was as excited as I was about the first place. It was also cute that she kept saying "I'm so impressed! You did REALLY WELL for your first showing!" Now there ARE some issues. Not so much with the place, more with the seller. She found that out later and let me know. (The seller has apparently rejected every offer so far including the ones who didn't try to haggle and just straight up offered list price. Seller apparently wants people to offer more and fight over it. Insert eye roll.) She was also right there with me one the second place when it was kinda disappointing and was like "yeah, it's the same price point as the first one and just not as good"
But I thought about it a lot and I just don't think it's a good idea to break my lease early. I'd probably have to pay a fair chunk to do that and I'm also worried about my current complex having this promotion when I moved in of after one month lease they gave you a gift card equivalent to one month's lease. BUT...I read rules on it stating some or all could have to be paid back if you didn't satisfy the lease. I held off using it at first because of that (and because I hated this apartment so much. I saw that as a real possibility.) But there were time limits too and the longer I stayed the more I wanted to take advantage of it because if I stay they fucking OWE me that much. I've used all but $150 at this point because it will all expire at the end of this month. I don't want to pay to break a lease AND pay them back the $900 I used from this promotion. I just hope I don't regret passing up this place. Of course sounds there's also a chance I wouldn't get it. I mean I'd be OK with offering list price but not $1 more. Don't be stupid, seller. I saw they bought the place 2.5 years ago. Sounds to me like they bought it still in the runoff of Covid times when people were just throwing cash and fighting over places and are upset that's not still happening. They're going to have to learn it's not. But I have 5 months still to look. So hoping if I say no to this one I'll still find something just as good or better at a more convenient time.
I'm still giving it one more day before I officially tell my realtor this decision though. It was a great condo....
