Oh, wonderful.

I've been sick with a cold all weekend so despite my best efforts, and tons of optimism -- I didn't get to do much of anything.

There was a rather lively lunch on Sunday at Jac's parents place with his french relatives. Halfway through I joked to him "So is this was our family dinners going to be like?" -- imagining my american relatives and italian kids.

But my kids will be tri-lingual.

But let's not talk 5 years down the line.

So the appartment situation is that after a failed attempt to rent the little apartment for a more reasonable price (the one the con artist showed us -- we got in touch with the real owner) -- we called back "The Lips" i.e. the owner-ess of the original apartment we saw and liked -- the empty one with ugly tiles.

But it's our best bet. And I kind of like the idea of having an entire apartment, completely filled with all hand-picked IKEA furniture -- according to our specific tastes.

I've never had that before.

So we talked to her but she says she has someone interested and she is waiting for them to bring in a pay slip -- and so she can't tell us anything until Wednesday.

So Wednesday, if she says so--- the place is ours and we can start fixing it up to hopefully move in by July 1.

If not, we'll just say it wasn't meant to be and Friday its back to the torn n' tattered pages of Portaportese.

Apartment hunting in Rome is so stressful.

I just want it to be over so I can start the fun part :-) -- interior design of my first "real" home!

Exciting.