At last!

My potential new landlady FINALLY got in touch this evening, so we've made tentative plans to meet up at the house on Wednesday to discuss a few things and for me to sign the lease. I've no idea when I can move in... things are a little up in the air right now with this training course, so I'd imagine it'll be at least a week after that.

Packing isn't an issue... I really don't have a lot to my name and most of it is regular shaped stuff... books, DVDs etc. plus a wardrobe full of clothes and approximately six drawers full of stuff (of which about a third could be junked).

I'll have to make a decision before Wednesday night though, but then once I move in, things can start to move forward!

Weird!

A few weeks ago, I noticed that a "friend" on Facebook, a bloke that was in my year at school, was friends with FA2. Funny, because I really can't imagine how they could know each other. Certainly, I never introduced the two of them and as far as I know, they were never met or even became friendly enough where they'd look each other up after ten years on a social network site.

They don't seem to be linked in any way via Facebook right now, so maybe it was simply a mistake.

However, one of E's friends, who's added me as a friend on Facebook also has a mutual acquaintance with me. I live in a very small community of people, so coincidences like this aren't out of the ordinary. However, our mutual acquaintance lives 6,000 miles away and I've only ever "met" him online. I've no idea how E's friend know this guy... for all I know it's another Facebook anomaly that will fix itself within a few weeks.

Steps forward.

Over the past two nights I've had some really weird dreams. The first was a dream where I'd managed to steal £15 million and has it sitting in my bank account, but couldn't do anything with it or else I'd get found out. I woke up yesterday with a huge dose of fear! When I realised it was all a dream, I was so relieved. Last night's dream was a lot more pleasant, but not any less frustrating. GC was the main character in it and we spent the entire time flirting, but never actually doing anything about it. I woke up this morning incredibly frustrated... I still am to a certain extent!

In other news, I think I've found somewhere to live. It's been a long hunt, on and off for the last six or seven months, but I went to view a few places last week, found one that's decent with a couple of decent flatmates, and left a message last night asking the landlord to get in contact so I can sort out leases/contracts etc. I want to get in ASAP, so I'm hoping to hear from the landlord today or tomorrow.

This is exciting because I had some stuff on hold, just waiting for me to find a new place to live including dating, sorting out my lack of social life and changing gym. As I promised myself ages ago, once I'm settled in this new place, I might actually give the online dating thing a go to offset this on/off frustration I have with being single (and the somewhat ongoing frustration of last summer's RB incident). In a conversation with A yesterday, I said that if things go well in this new place, this summer could be a very exciting and busy time in the life of Ruuude!

*perv*

There's a girl who lives opposite me... she's a few years my junior, but she's the spitting image of Jill Halfpenny. Lots of great perving opportunities (but she sadly has a boyfriend).

Good news?

It looks as if I have finally found somewhere to live. It's only taken the best part of about 6 months, on and off. It's a nice house, bigger inside than it looks outside, reasonable modern, good area and a decent sized room. Big enough to retreat to when the outside world sucks ass and I don't want to socialise with my potential new house mates.

It's not perfect, but there are so few places that are. The only big concern is that the two blokes appear to be quite messy... the kitchen and bathroom were not brilliantly clean. While I am not the world's tidiest or most anal man when it comes to house cleanliness, I would demand a higher standard than was on show last night.

Still, I have until after the weekend to make a decision and I should be able to talk it through with FP and my brother-in-law as we have tentative plans for a night on the town tomorrow evening.

If I do accept, things will move fairly quickly and then everything else I had planned can kick off, too. This summer could be quite exciting and/or busy!

FFS.

I've found myself, recently, thinking a lot about RB. I don't know why she came in to my head... she just did, last week. Strangely, and in a co-incidence that makes the mind boggle, someone at work yesterday emailed me a picture of RB (we used to work at the same company, albeit in different departments) and today I noticed, through a friend of a work colleague, that's she's now on Facebook, with private profile.

I'm angry at myself for still thinking about her in the way that I am (a bit wistful, a little bit of regret that things never went further) as that should be a closed door and I should be looking forwards. However, with promising women appearing in my life far too infrequently, I guess a certain amount of looking into the past is inevitable.

Still, I've got a few nights out looming (FP, guys from work), coupled with the new job/training course and the potential change in living conditions means that, while the RB thing is annoying, I do have quite a bit to look forward to that will keep me busy for a while.

Moving forward...

Last week, I got the email I've been waiting for regarding my job application. The good news is that I have the job, but there's no immediate travel (so that's seeing V postponed for a while), the bad news is that there's no extra money (but that's not why I applied).

Now that I have this information, I can start moving forward again. Flat/apartment/house hunting can start again and once that has been achieved, then I'll look at my fitness and relationship status.

Tonight, I get back into the house hunting with a vengeance!