pros and cons

Here I am, still living with the 'rents. It hasn't been that bad really. I just hate sharing a room with both kids. Lexie has started snoring, which would be cute if I was hearing it over an intercom and not in my right ear. S and my step-dad have bonded over basement remodeling and softball. The testosterone is flying here.

Some great points about living with my mom, step-dad and sisters:

• free babysitting,
• meaning I get long, leisurely showers.
• homecooked meals that I didn't have to prepare.
• free babysitting.
• trying to do the dishes and getting shoo'd away (is shoo'd a word?).
• free babysitting.
• reconnecting with my mom and sisters.
• free babysitting
• saving bunches of money by not having any bills to pay, other than cell phone and car payments.

But, as you know, with the good comes the bad:

• no privacy
• guilt over watching my mom clean up after all of us
• no privacy
• buying a bag of candy and not even getting one piece (thanks mom).
• no privacy
• the imagined pressure to find a place already. My mom and step-dad insist they aren't sick of us, but I don't want to push it.
• the fear that I'm cashing all my free babysitting chips in now, as opposed to when I might actually need them (Starbuck's runs are not really that necessary).

So, we have a few houses to look at tonight. Rent here is cheap and that's what we want. We have a goal of how much to save for a downpayment and I already have an area picked out for where I want to live. Downtown Coeur d'Alene is so quaint and charming, I just want to gobble the whole town up.

Oh, and I bit the bullet and applied at Starbucks. My sister's boss hasn't gotten back to me yet, and I need a job like yesterday. I'll let you all know how that goes.