Stars in my eyes

So Dan and I have started hunting for a new apartment.  Dan's lease is up at the end of July and I plan on breaking my lease and moving directly after the wedding.

Looking for an apartment in NYC is very different from hunting in other places.  First off, you can't start searching too early because most places are posted only one month or a few weeks before move-in date and they are gone within days (sometimes hours) of being posted.  If you find something you like you have to jump immediately.  It's a stressful process since you also have to watch out for phoney posts and scams (that's a whole other story).

So Dan is in charge of looking mainly because he has to move first and mostly because I have a problem with getting stars in my eyes.  If I see an apartment I like with a kitchen that fills my heart with dreams of cooking for my family and rooms to decorate I get all crazy-town obsessed and the dreamy stars in my eyes get so big that I literally cannot see anything else.  Then of course if it doesn't work out I crash and burn in a heap of disappointment.

Last week Dan found a place that was a little out of our Bay Ridge area but we were okay with that simply because every other aspect of the place was perfect.  It had a kitchen with a full fridge and full stove with hood vent (my two must requirements).  It had central air, a dishwasher (unheard of in NYC apartments), and laundry in the unit (impossible!).  Dan sent an email but we never heard back and then the post was removed from Craigslist.  However, within minutes of seeing the posting I had already moved into the place in my mind, decorated, and literally changed items on our wedding registry to fit my vision.  People, the disappointment was real.  It took a good two days to recover from the stars in my eyes because every other posting Dan showed me I refused to accept the state of the kitchens because I had seen what was possible.

Two days ago Dan found another posting that he thought I would like and, with caution, showed me.  The kitchen was EVEN BETTER because it had an island which I really want.  It didn't have a dishwasher or central air but that is a-ok since the kitchen is beautiful in every other sense.  Dan called the person who posted and we have an appointment to see the place this Saturday!!!

Praying people PRAY.  It would be so wonderful if this place worked out for us and we could end our search early and have ample time to move Dan into the place and slowly move my stuff before we have to leave for the wedding.  I need my stuff out of my current place before we leave for Chicago because I told my landlord I would break my lease the end of August.  We get back from Chicago August 31.  It's tight.  Also, we don't want to spend our whole homey-moon moving in.

I know God has a place for us already picked out...I just hope it happens to be this one.