Looking for an apartment is proving to be a pain in my arse... literally. On Saturday we spent a good seven hours clicking and unclicking potential apartments.
Either they were too expensive, too far away, didn't allow pets or there was no window in the bathroom. Over three thousand apartments are for rent - most of them are out of our price range and many are two-room places. And out of forty-one places we bookmarked, only one had a greater potential. After a quick calculation and roughly adding another 100 Euros for the cost for the internet & phone connection and electricity, the apartment would end up being too expensive.
So with six weeks to go until we make the move, we have no new home to move into.
I'm starting to get more anxious as the day progresses.
It's 6:25 AM and i'm already looking at apartments online. I'm hoping that someone was sneaky late last night and put up the perfect apartment for us to rent.
Unlikely but it could happen.
And whether it was a coincidence or just good timing but we watched The Secret over the weekend. A friend had made a copy of it for us but since it was in German, J translated it as we were watching it. I had seen it ages ago but i thought it was nice that J summarized each section, just so i could understand. For that, i am grateful.
If you haven't heard about The Secret, "it's the idea of optimist thinking. It states that everything one wants/needs may be accomplished by wishing it and believing in it. [source]
And each time one uses the words, "don't", "not" or "won't", one immediately puts focus on that you didn't want. And the obedient Law of Attraction doesn't know if you "don't", "not" or "won't" want something. It obediently gives you more of that thing you had said you don't want.
But apparently one can reset this negative vibration by simply changing ones words.
Just by simply resetting my words. Each time i catch myself saying, Don't, Not and No, i should reset my thinking by asking myself, so what do i want? [source]
One example was a conversation i had with J about some bread that i was about to throw away. We weren't sure if it was still good because neither one of us remembered when i had bought it. J said to put it out on the balcony so the birds could eat it. I then continued with, if you put bread out there, i don't want the birds to come and crap everywhere. And what if the bread is bad and the cats eat it, they may get sick.
Funny how something positive could easily be changed into something negative.
By being pessimistic and always thinking the worst, it's no wonder bad things happen. I guess that's one way of protecting oneself, so one does not get disappointed.
And remembering that, thinking positive is one thing but believing it is another.
So instead of me saying, the apartments we looked at were "either too expensive, too far away, didn't allow pets or there was no window in the bathroom." I should have probably said what i do want;
Either they were too expensive, too far away, didn't allow pets or there was no window in the bathroom. Over three thousand apartments are for rent - most of them are out of our price range and many are two-room places. And out of forty-one places we bookmarked, only one had a greater potential. After a quick calculation and roughly adding another 100 Euros for the cost for the internet & phone connection and electricity, the apartment would end up being too expensive.
So with six weeks to go until we make the move, we have no new home to move into.
I'm starting to get more anxious as the day progresses.
It's 6:25 AM and i'm already looking at apartments online. I'm hoping that someone was sneaky late last night and put up the perfect apartment for us to rent.
Unlikely but it could happen.
And whether it was a coincidence or just good timing but we watched The Secret over the weekend. A friend had made a copy of it for us but since it was in German, J translated it as we were watching it. I had seen it ages ago but i thought it was nice that J summarized each section, just so i could understand. For that, i am grateful.
If you haven't heard about The Secret, "it's the idea of optimist thinking. It states that everything one wants/needs may be accomplished by wishing it and believing in it. [source]
And each time one uses the words, "don't", "not" or "won't", one immediately puts focus on that you didn't want. And the obedient Law of Attraction doesn't know if you "don't", "not" or "won't" want something. It obediently gives you more of that thing you had said you don't want.
But apparently one can reset this negative vibration by simply changing ones words.
Just by simply resetting my words. Each time i catch myself saying, Don't, Not and No, i should reset my thinking by asking myself, so what do i want? [source]
One example was a conversation i had with J about some bread that i was about to throw away. We weren't sure if it was still good because neither one of us remembered when i had bought it. J said to put it out on the balcony so the birds could eat it. I then continued with, if you put bread out there, i don't want the birds to come and crap everywhere. And what if the bread is bad and the cats eat it, they may get sick.
Funny how something positive could easily be changed into something negative.
By being pessimistic and always thinking the worst, it's no wonder bad things happen. I guess that's one way of protecting oneself, so one does not get disappointed.
And remembering that, thinking positive is one thing but believing it is another.
So instead of me saying, the apartments we looked at were "either too expensive, too far away, didn't allow pets or there was no window in the bathroom." I should have probably said what i do want;
- A three-room apartment
- Maximum 700 Euros - which includes ALL extra costs.
- 1st floor
- Elevator option if it's more than two floors
- 70-80 square metres
- Available for rent from the 1st January 2011
- Newly renovated
- Painted Walls
- Wooden flooring
- Allows Pets
- Big windows
- Balcony access through the living room
- View of some greenery
- Work room/Spare room next door to living room
- Mid-20s to mid-40s, friendly, English-speaking neighbours
- A good neighborhood
- Well-lit streets
- More than enough parking space
- Walking distance to the tram stop or U-Bahn
- Maximum 10 minutes to the city centre by public transport
- Walking distance to the supermarket/bakery/Sparkasse bank
- Bathroom with a window
- A bath with a shower door or curtain railing
- Modern toilet
- Big enough bathroom to put a washing machine plus more inside
- Living room big enough to also put J's work table on one side
- Built-in modern kitchen with an exhaust
- Kitchen big enough to put a small dining table inside
- Lots of working space in the kitchen
- Window in the kitchen
- Built-in cupboards or storage space
- Big cellar that's well-lit and is clean
- Storage space for bicycles
- ... my list continues.
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Still sticking to the positive end of things... Check it out! We may even see the sun this Sunday. Snowman, anyone?
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