Flatmate sought...not anymore!!!

For the past week or so, we've been putting adverts online and on the market for my room to be let. I am moving in the bigger room/ex-living room at the end of this week so my current room will be vacated and let to a potentially really nice girl. Except it's very difficult: either the girl is very nice but doesn't like us or the room (i did tidy up the place, and we even vacuumed, scrubbed and burnt candles), or the girl that shows up to visit the room is completely opposite of the ones we usually get along with...meaning we didn't like them.

There are a few anecdotes worth mentioning though.
First there was the very butch girl from New Zealand. She didn't stay long but made such an impression on us we decided not to invite her for a second interview.

Second there was the really nice french girl who just moved to London. I think she was nice because she asked us what we were studying...ahem! We even offered her the flat but she found something else..which made us panick a bit because of all the dozen girls we've met, we only liked 3 of them.

Third, there was a girl called Ariane who wanted to visit the flat but when she called me she said her name was Ariana. So I asked her to pass by 19:00 and by 19:15 she finally found the gate. We opened the gate and waited for her to show up on our doorstep. Except she never did...she called later on asking where on the 3rd floor the flat was...given that it was on the 1st floor, she was never going to find it. Anyway she finally made it to our doorstep. She was very pretty and well dressed and well made up, with knee-high boots and flat blonde hair. She barely looked at the room, kitchen and bathroom, took a picture and left! later on that evening, she rang me panicked saying she couldn't find number 257...and I said I lived on number 5..obviously she mistakenly rang the wrong number...sweet and stupid. We were tempted to get her back to our house so that she can rest and have a cup of tea, because obviously she didn't know anything about the area..LOL

Anyway, we finally settled on a French girl from Lyon who made her decision at the last minute and paid the deposit in extremis. It was very stressful because we didn't want to go through the whole process of having strangers visit us again...
She works in beauty product marketing but wears no make up....I work in TV but don't watch TV, and Electra works in bars but doesn't drink alcohol, so it's a perfect fit really. So from next week, I will have a bigger room with a 3 seater, a balcony and not much closet space.

So to celebrate I'll be going to Brussels to stock up on chocolates...