Hopefully this will be my last big "Life Update" for the year! Just letting you guys know what happened with finding an apartment/moving plans, art-related stuff, and what next year should bring for prices! This is a long one, but I have lots to talk about, and I'm kind of organizing my thoughts as I go. IRL Moving So it came down to the last minute for finding an apartment before we gave our 30-day notice, but I couldn't find anything of reasonable cost nearby that would be in our price range AND allow my chinchilla as a pet AND had an open apartment/house on December 1st. I was panicked, of course, until I had the sudden epiphany to just call the office of our current apartments and see if they had a cheaper one that would open up soon, since we were downsizing anyway. DUH. Thankfully, they're going to let us stay at our current rate through Dec (instead of jumping up to $1100/mo) as there's a 1bed/1bath that opens on Jan 1st. Huzzah! Now I don't have to stress about scraping