The Roommates

Big news!

(Back story: I have 3 roommates. Two of them are graduating in May and our lease is up in July. We have been looking for new roommates for a while, but the front office was doing most of the work. For months we didn't hear anything about anyone else who was looking for new roommates or wanted to live in our apartment complex. VP and I didn't want random roomies, but we weren't having luck with finding our own.)

Last week on Wednesday, my roomie VP and I were informed that there were two girls just down the hall who were also looking for two roommates. Their other two roommates had just gotten engaged (not to each other!) and they needed to have their rooms filled, too. We went down the hall to meet them and they opened their door right up. They were super nice and funny and didn't mind that VP and I practically made ourselves right at home. We kind of talked about a little bit of everything: the obligatory 'what's your major?,' how old everyone was, when we were graduating, how often they partied, who drinks?, are you in Greek life?, are you guys going to Carolina Cup?! (They are,  by the way. We're going to hang out.)

They were lovely, but this also brought up a serious issue. If we had two open bedrooms in our apartment and they had two in theirs, which pair of us would be the ones moving? Their living room and kitchen were significantly smaller than mine, but the bathrooms and bedrooms were bigger. And they had dark hardwood floors throughout the entire apartment! Our apartment has light wood in the kitchen and living room, tile in the bathroom, and carpet in the bedroom. At first, VP and I really didn't want to move out of our apartment. Naturally, we love it here! This is where we've had so many memories! From drunken dance parties to all of us 'studying' while watching Merlin. We were holding on to the hope that maybe they'd be so blown away by how big our group living spaces were that they would just drop all of their reservations about moving and want to live with us.

We had them come over to our apartment for a tour/getting to know you hangout on Friday. Unfortunately, they were not blown away by our large, bright living room or the fact that you could stand in our kitchen and not touch every appliance. We showed them our rooms and they were very unimpressed with the carpet and smaller rooms. But we got to talking and bonded over wine drinking and VP's awful sex friend. They had to have the lease signed by Sunday since one of the girls was going out of town and both parties were to discuss the issue of whether or not we were opposed to moving or if we'd just like to find 2 new randoms each.

VP and I tried to make a pros and cons list that night, but it mostly ended up being pros that were unrelated to the topic at hand. We had both decided that we really liked the girls and we wanted to be friends and roommates with them. You could say that we were already decided. And Sunday one of them asked what we had decided. I wasn't opposed to moving, I love new adventures! And I told her that. Later, VP told me that she didn't mind moving either and we told one of the girls and we agreed to move in with them. 

HOORAY! I'm so stoked! I'm looking at Tumblr for new room inspiration!