housing

i visited some apartment complexes today... the first one has an interesting vibe - the cats are cool there, the manager is a chain smoker with two cages of small birds in the office, two large birds that screech at her from her balcony if they see her walk by, and a large, fuzzy orange kitty, who lounges around by the side of the pool. There's also another person there who walks their cat on a leash (i saw her). plus it's relatively cheap, plus it's only 4.5 miles from work. the downside? it's dinky. i mean din-keeeeeee. we'd have to get rid of more stuff (not that we have too much to begin with), and get really creative with the cat stuff (there's no litterbox closet, not much floor space, etc.) and the workout stuff (i have no idea where we would put any of it). of course, we are limited on options right now, since every other place we've tried has something very wrong with it (specific pet rent- meaning they would count the pets, gargantuan deposits, waiting lists, whatever). so we might head on over to the dinky maya linda apartment in a couple of weeks. yeah, it's really called that.