Housemates from hell are soon to be gone and more musings..

It's interesting how it always feels like the end of an era for me when I have housemates who move out. For the past couple of years I've had this really interesting guy named Tyler living in the tiny room in the upstairs of my house. He's really into bikes, plays music, is vegan, is pretty smart, and largely keeps to himself. He just bought a home of his own in the neighborhood, which is so awesome for him. He has another deal earlier this year which fell through, so I'm really happy that this one will work out. I'm also kind of sad in a selfish way that he's moving out. He was kind of ideal in the sense that he just did his thing, and vice versa. We didn't really hang out too much or socialize, but would ususally see each other at the same social functions when I was actually in town, or willing to break my workaholism and go out, though I wished that there was more a communal thing going on..but hey.. nothing it perfect? is it?

I really came to appreciate how good I had it until the newest kids moved in here about 6 weeks ago. One of the things about my living space is that I like it to be 100% vegan, smoke free, sorta communal but nothing too formal. They seemed nice enough when I met them, so I let them move in as I was about to leave on my trip for Burning Man. That's when the disaster started...Evn though I stated specifically on the lease that there is no smoking and that it's a vegan household, lo and behold they start smoking in their room, bring meat into the house, invite their friends over who leave food all over and thus the mice which took forever to get rid of the last time, have returned.. It was so completely disrespectful, but to top it off they gave me a hard time about actually paying their rent. They still are $200 short.. but at last.. I will be rid of them soon. I've been pretty nice about them being here until today, but they have to go. Anyhow, on Sunday they're both moving out.

I'm not entirely soured on getting housemates, but I'm going to be super picky who comes in here next. Maybe I just need to live alone again for a couple of months.

Along with all this, I'm excited that I'll be closing on the house next door to me...It's looking really good at this point. I know for sure that I'm going to have to get a big dumpster to clear stuff out of the house..There's so much crap in there.