I’ve got an apartment! Yay!

At this point, you can either close your eyes and imagine me doing a little dance or you can keep reading. Preferably both, but more than likely the latter.

We went down to Olympia this morning, dragging a whole carload of cargo with us. When we got there, I found out that I wasn’t expected until tomorrow, so my paperwork wasn’t quite ready to be completed and the apartment hadn’t been completely cleaned yet. Both were fine, since they completed the paperwork as I sat there and I wasn’t moving in permanently anyway. There’s a huge stain in the rug in the apartment itself which they’re trying to clean, and they’ll be nice and not hold me accountable for it. It’s a nice little two-bedroom apartment on the second floor of a two-story building. Courtesy of my roommate, I’m taking the master bedroom, which is small but has a nice walk-in closet with some storage space. I’m thankful for that — perhaps I won’t have to have much under-the-bed storage. Anyway, the apartment also has an in-room washer/drier (which I didn’t visually check, but it’s there), a full-service kitchen (fridge and stove/oven provided), a fireplace, a relatively cozy dining area and living room, a nice patio balcony, and a little storage room off the balcony. It’s small, but it’s home until at least May 31, since that’s when my lease runs out.

We went furniture shopping at the nearby Bon-Macy’s Furniture Gallery and got a full-size bed plus frame, and since it was only a showroom, that’ll be delivered on either the 10th or 11th of this month. This is good, since I’m going down permanently on the 10th. Cable internet hookup (via Comcast) is on the 11th between noon and 4, so I’ll be without internet access for a day or so (gasp!) while I wait for that to get hooked up.

With bed ordered, we went over to the College and paid fees and did some background checking into Amanda’s financial aid. Apparently, they’re not validating student IDs for Fall until the 18th, which sucks, since I’m going to be using the bus lines to get on campus before then. I also stopped into the new location of the Writing Center to say “hi” and see how the move was going — as is usual for the summer months, nobody was really there, since we’re always on minimal staffing during the summer. I did get to talk to one of the Assistants to the Director and one of the other tutors I work with, though, which was enjoyable. We went up to the bookstore, got Amanda some of her books, then went out to lunch at Apollo’s Pizza and Pasta on the corner of Division and Harrison on Olympia’s west side. After that, we beat feet home. We’ve done pretty much nothing since.

I am glad that we managed to get some of my larger items down — my chair, my new desk. That was an accomplishment, though not all that easy, since we did have to heft everything up a flight of stairs. At least it got there, I count that as an accomplishment. The next step may be getting a dining room table from up here to down there, complete with chairs. We’ll see.

Not much else to report. It’s been a long day, but it ended well.

I’ve got an apartment! Yay!