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We came to Seattle a week before my start date , so that we will have enough time to find an apartment and settle down.  We started keeping a eye on Craigslist and other apartment listing websites from February.  After some research we decided 1500 would be a wholesome budget to find a 2 bed apartment near Bellevue area.  It will be 10-15 minutes drive from my work. The neighborhood seems a good combination of suburb and downtown life style. My company gave me an agent to show us some apartments in the area. We had a half day tour in a very rainy day . It was a epic waste of time.  The apartments were pretty dingy, even the renovated one. The pictures in the apartment listings were from model home. So the actual apartment look nothing like the picture. The square footage for too bed is tinier than my one bed apartment in Houston. Yes I know everything is bigger and better in Texas. However this apartments are worse than my student apartment in Denton, Tx. In Seattle the  rental ma

I left my job as a Information technology specialist at oxy petroleum last week. The good bye was hard. My manager took the team out for lunch.  I was pretty sad to say good byes to all the nice people I worked with for the past two years. However all of a sudden, I realized this place will function just fine without me. People will come to work, have lunch , gossip.... whatever they do every damn day. All is good. I'm taking about two weeks off between jobs. My new job requires leaving Texas and moving to 2200 miles away in Washington (not D.C , the state) This is my Crtl + Alt + Del.  I decided to take this time to chill, try new things , and I'll write about each day. 4/6- 4/7 The weekend was pretty mellow. Yeameen came to keep me company. We went for a run. I was hesitant , as I know how competitive he is and my fitness level is not quite there yet. It was sweet of him , coming back for me , when I was falling behind. However, It reminded of my mom and dad walking t