5 months in
We’ve been back in California for 5 months now, living in an apartment in Santa Clara close to Jasper’s work. We haven’t had our belongings delivered yet as we were waiting until we bought a house, but if you have seen my previous blogs you’ll know that isn’t going too well.
So we have been camping in our apartment with very minimal furniture and clothing for 5 months, and we spent a month living out of suitcases at my folks place before coming out here.
As you can imagine it’s getting a little tedious now and we are at the point of having to make a tough decision on whether we pay the extortionate amount to have our things delivered to our current apartment, to find a bigger more accessible place to move to month-month or to keep camping and hope we find a house to buy soon.
It’s a tough decision and one we need to think on for a little longer, but I just keep hoping a decent house will come on the market soon.
Jasper has been promoted since we moved out and has been working his arse off. He produced some fab demos for JavaOne which people were very impressed with. He is currently in Antwerp presenting some talks at Devoxx, so I am all alone in the US at the moment.
I have made friends with some other Bay Area Brits through facebook and have met up with one of the ladies a couple of times recently, she is lovely and it feels nice to know that I am starting to settle and have a social life again! 
Jasper is due back at the end of the week and unsurprisingly we’re planning on going to a couple of open houses this weekend.
I have an assignment due in next week which I am working on today trying to get all of my reading done by Thursday and will start writing it on Friday and finish it off Monday/Tuesday. It’s quite nice that I am only studying one module at the moment, I need to make the decision by December as to whether I want to study a 2nd level 3 course from January though or if I should stretch my degree out by another year. To be honest I would really like to just get it finished, but it means finding the money to pay for the course now and means that I can’t get a job until the summer.
Seems like we have lots of decisions to make at the moment, I guess it’s a case of prioritising whether we want to push through knowing we can come out the other side in a year with a house and a degree, or whether we take our time and hope that we can at least pull off one or the other.
First things first though, Jasper needs to get back from Europe and I need to do this assignment, we’ll deal with the big stuff next week!
Other than the annoyance of loosing out on houses and having to camp out in the apartment things are going pretty well, we’re making friends settling back in to the area and Jasper’s job is going really well, so can’t complain really.
Peace and love peeps
xxx