The smart phone is a wonderful invention. Unfortunately, instant information has started to take a bad toll on my well being.

Enter Craigslist on my phone. I have become addicted, constantly checking because there might be the perfect new home in the perfect location for the perfect price and if I don’t look now, I’ll miss out forever.

I originally downloaded this app last year when I was looking for a job. The sole purpose of it was to be able to look for job postings while in staff meetings at my then current job. So even back when I got this dangerous information feed for my phone it was in the name of being crazy and insane about the amount of time I poured into looking for a job.

Luckily finding somewhere to live looks to be a little easier than finding a job. Otherwise I think they probably would have locked me up by now because I became a terrible and crazy lady during my last job search and no one needs to be subjected to that again.

But still, this housing hunt hasn’t been as easy as it was in my mind. We have so many criteria and only so much money. Oh and we have a dog. Pet owners, you can relate. I’ll find the perfect place with a yard and washer/dryer hook ups and it’s even been recently redone and is hundred dollars below my price range to boot but of course, of course, they don’t accept pets.

Last week this madness reached a breaking point and Will told me that I had to stop looking all together. Since we’ve been given until the end of July to move out (hence no moving boxes yet), we have more time than I originally thought and so I am taking a two week break (that started last week) from the incoming information that could be at my fingertips.

I’ve alway been someone who liked to plan and know exactly how things will be in the future. I think this has to do with living in the future a little too much. I don’t focus on what I have in the now and just dream about how wonderful things will be. Taking a break from finding our next home has helped me give more energy to appreciating our last month in our current beautiful house. No matter where we go, it won’t be as big or nice as where we are now. There’s just no way we can afford that. So for now I need to take it all in while I still can.

Gotta make the most of it