We are moving!!

We decided to take the apartment and are going to get the keys later this week!  Crazy fast, right??  Because I know the building owner, it's all very casual.  He's letting us pay the security over several payments (he said we can take a few months but the hubby and I agreed we'll have it done by the end of March, if not sooner).  He's going to copy the keys today and we'll get them tomorrow or Friday.  He has to fix a light in the living room, but in the meantime, we can start moving stuff in.  I forgot to ask if we're allowed to paint, but I'll ask when we get the keys.  I'm assuming we will be able to, no problem.  The owner is really low-key (but super organized and neat, so it's not like the place isn't in tip-top shape) so I don't think painting will be a problem, especially since one of the rooms is already yellow (the rest are white).  We're planning on a light blue with grey undertones for the bedroom (that's the room that's currently yellow - and I simply cannot abide yellow).  Maybe we'll even paint the other rooms, I don't know.  Something to think about!

This is really fantastic because now we don't have to have one BIG moving day.  Instead, we can move some things every single day so it's not this huge, monumental, back-breaking task.  I have a love/hate relationship with moving.  I love to move and live in new places but I hate actually packing and carrying the boxes.  I don't mind unpacking as much because I'm like, "Oooh, I love this!  I forgot I had this!!" even if I just packed it two weeks earlier (I'm special like that).  I'm especially looking forward to unpacking all of the stuff from my bridal shower, which I opened at the shower and then promptly put into storage so I barely remember what's there.

Tom and I can now also finally get to returning a few of the bridal shower items.  We only got three sets of china (we registered for twelve) and two sets of glasses so we're going to return it all and put the credit toward our luggage.  China and expensive stemware weren't really a priority for us (how many fancy dinners are we going to host?) and we agree that the luggage is a better investment, especially since we're flying to Florida in May for my brother's law school graduation.  The funny thing was that I was thinking this for a while but didn't say anything because I was worried Tom would say, "But then what will the people who bought us the china and glasses think?"  But then the other day he brought this up himself and suggested we just return the china since we can't afford to buy the remaining nine sets!  It was a great moment.  We do that a lot, too, and I love feeling like we're just naturally in sync.  I think places like Target and Crate & Barrel have awesome plates and glasses and flatware; I'm so totally happy to have that kind of stuff rather than china.  Maybe one day we'll have so much money that we'll go out and buy it all for ourselves... or maybe we'll just never care about it.  I think I'd like to own china one day, but I really have no good reason for it other than I like what it represents, a certain lifestyle.  Of course, it's a lifestyle we probably will never have so, yeah - there goes my china.  I'm not meticulous enough for china and silver anyway.  Give me Target plates and Bed, Bath, and Beyond flatware any day.  (They really do make such nice stuff!)

The new apartment has a dishwasher, which is great because I hate washing dishes.  It, the stove, and the fridge are all only three years old.  There is no laundry facility, which is the main down point about the location, but we'll survive.  We can do laundry at the laundromat and/or my parents' house (which, of course, is cheaper).  It seems like there may be an available connection in the basement, though, so maybe it's a possibility for the future.

There are two bedrooms, which is nice.  We're going to use the second bedroom as an office.  Eventually, I want to get a new bed so then maybe our current bed would go in there as a guest room (I also have a sofa-bed, which will be a bitch to move because it is super heavy).  The unspoken idea is that maybe one day it'll be a baby's room (and by "unspoken" I mean I have kept this thought entirely to myself)... but that opens a zillion scary thoughts like, "Us?  Have a baby?" and "In that apartment?" and "Sometime soon?  Like within the next ten years?"  The bedrooms are small, so there isn't a lot of room for a lot of furniture, but that's okay.  It'll help stop us from thinking we should buy any.

I didn't think we'd be moving this soon; I just didn't think it was feasible.  It's a little scary to move when the hubby only has a temp job, but he's had good luck at getting continual assignments (and the current one is particularly promising) so we just have to hope it keeps going - and do everything we can to make sure it does.  No turning back now: full responsibility, here we come.

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[goodbadandugly2]

have a fun move!