House Situation

So we went to the house today to see the rooms we hadn’t seen. Still had a bit of bother looking at it but we managed.We were worried about the box room because the landlord didn’t sell it to us at all. And it is ADORABLE. I love it.

We decided to sort out who was having which room without Nicole around. We tried to make it as fair as possible. Made a chart and we each ticked which rooms we would be happy having and circled the room we preferred. I said I wanted the downstairs room most. I would like the room with 2 wardrobes but i would be happy with the box room. Nicole has always insisted she wants the downstairs room. Originally she was getting it automatically because her boyfriend was diabled. Noone ever argued against that obviously. But she broke up with him and they barely talk. So he’s not an issue anymore. So she shouldn’t automatically get the downstairs room, right? No. That’s not how Nicole sees it.

So it ends up. Ellie, Jamie and Laura don’t want the downstairs room. So it’s between me and Nicole. Easiest way to decide? Flip a coin. So I say to make it even fairer, Jamie call for me. He says heads. It is heads. So I get the downstairs room. We’re trying to keep Nicole up to date through this but she’s not answering her phone. Laura tells her what we’ve decided after we’ve done this and she gets in a stress. Laura is very calm and explains why it was the fairest way to do things. Everyone agrees that it was the right thing to do except Nicole (who hadn’t even seen the room btw).

She makes a fuss then says “alright well i dont care which other room i have” Laura asks which she would prefer and says we’ve taken her out of the box room so there’s no way she would get it. To be a bit nice… but she doesn’t care. whatever. it’s all fine. either one. it doesn’t matter. she doesn’t care. well, fine ok. we’re trying to let you have first dibs on all the rooms coz you didn’t get the one you want but if you’re gonna be like that, screw you.

So Laura says she really wants the room she originally was going to have. Everyone says that’s fine. Laura’s room decided.

3 rooms left. Nicole Ellie and Jamie left. Jamie takes about half an hour to decide which room he wants. Or rather whether he could fit his stuff into the box room. He decides he does want the box room. It IS a cool room. I say there are loads of shelves in the living room so if he wants to keep his books, dvds, whatever, downstairs noone would mind and would give him some extra storage. he’s happy with that. Jamie’s room decided.

We think that Ellie should be able to pick which room she wants as Nicole is apparently not bothered. She wants the quirky shaped room next to Jamie’s. Cool. Ellie’s room decided.

So Nicole gets the one with the 2 wardrobes. She’ll be happy with it, I’m sure. It’s a nice room. It’s the one I originally wanted. But there starts another problem. Laura has the room she was originally having. Jamie has the room he was originally having. Ellie has the room she was originally having. I have kicked Nicole out of the room she really wanted into the one I was having. Yes the downstairs room is better. But we did do it very fairly and I am going to be paying £20 a month more than her. And I am going to get all the noise from the drunk people coming home at night. And I am going to have to be the one who answers the door all the time. And I am going to be woken up by people coming downstairs when they have early lectures and I don’t. BUT, when Jordan stays and gets up at 6 or whenever to get to work, he’s not going to have to wake everyone up coz I’m the only one downstairs… So there are pluses and minuses for everyone.

Things between me and Nicole are…tense at best. We’ve fallen out a little. And this is going to make things a lot worse. It looks like I’ve stolen her room when it was the most logical and most fair way to do things. She thought she was still automatically getting the downstairs room when we’ve all had words with her trying to explain that she shouldn’t anymore. If her ex does come to visit, we now have a living room. They aren’t together anymore. She has a new boyfriend. They aren’t going to be having sex and we’ll surely all bugger off when he’s round so they can hav privacy in the living room to chat.

I’m worried. Very very worried. I don’t want to make things worse because she’s meant to be one of my best mates. But she’s being very stubborn and we’ve all been very willing to compromise apart from her. I’ve said to the others, a stupid fucking room isn’t worth losing a friendship so if she kicks up too much of a fuss she can have the god damned room. Doubt she’ll talk to me for a while. I really don’t want to give up the double bed though. She’s always going to be at her boyfriends anyway so when Jordan comes to Cambridge I want to have a double bed.

I can’t really afford to be paying more but I’ll have to…and maybe Jordan will help me out with the extra because he wanted me to have a double bed too. It’s not ideal to share a single bed…

I’ve rambled about this a lot. But we’ve been talking since 10.30pm and it’s now 4am so…I’ve cut it down a little bit.

Expect rants about how Nicole is a bitch in the very near future. It will take alot of her bitching for me to give up this room. I would’ve been more understanding if she had been willing to compromise. If she hadn’t got all het up I may have even said tonight, “you know what, just let her have the room even if it isn’t fair”. But we shall see.

But at the mo…WOOOOOO I have the massive room and a double bed next year!!!

Loz xxx