Still waiting, still grinding teeth

My application for my next apartment was provisionally accepted, pending the criminal background check. First, I have never been charged with a crime, so it should not be a problem. Second, whatever happened in Helsinki that one time, I had no way of knowing she was a Soviet spy.

Of course, without a signed lease, I can't schedule movers or painters. Nor can I have complete certainty about which furniture to store and which to move, so I can't really start packing that much. With my house closing in 41 days, we still have some time before these things need nailing down. I just really don't like it.

I did measure the new place yesterday as the building has an identical unit that's vacant. The most important stuff will fit. And I'm allowed to paint, as well as swap out their bare-bones thermostat for a Nest device, as long as I restore the apartment to factory settings when I move out. (My painter loved this idea when I emailed him last night.)

I do fine with uncertainty in most situations. Not knowing where I'll live in five weeks, though...that's not fun. And it's really interfering with my creativity: I have a ton of updates to the blog software as well as to Weather Now in the queue, and no head space to implement them.