"we just called to make sure you still needed housing"

My hopes were up and... I was ready to start packing...

BUT.. they called to see if they could take us off the waiting list.

And- Oh, but if we're willing to take the 3 BR tiny house we'd be eligible to re-apply for the waiting list in 6 months. (they've offered us this house 2 times already. NO. it's smaller than a single wide. seriously. I'm ok with small, but, really... maybe I'm being a snob, but no, thank you. We have way more space than we need now, but that would be really tight. Our dining room table and bunk beds wouldn't fit in it and... no.. we're not getting rid of the table. (its not like it's huge, but it seats us all)

UGH.

Back to the original plan- stay here, put up with it and in December when we know where we move in June we can make plans to move..

And.. today I think I finally got the smell factor reduced a tiny little bit. We've had the hepa filters running 24/7 and I read somewhere about putting baking soda in the rug (which I had done before)

3 boxes of baking soda in 1 room left for 6 days and then vacuuming it for an hour to get it all up..
And I think it smells better. I'm not sticking nose to the carpet, but from 5 feet it smells substantially better.

But I haven't closed the windows since we moved in. This is southern CA- it's supposed to be perfect weather all the time, right?