This weekend we spent moving Ryan's things out of storage and the trailer and into a storage unit of our own. This is officially the first edifice we've acquired together! It all started Saturday morning with his mom picking us up here and taking us to go get the Budget truck. Most of you know I will never use UHaul again after the Lansdale move, and I stuck to that. We got the truck and started to clear the shed. Of course, we picked the day it decides to snow to be outside in the elements. I tried to help as best I could, but I still can't lift anything over 20lbs, so I really was little to no help at all. The plan was 1. empty shed. 2. empty storage. 3. bring his ex's stuff back from storage and put in shed. What really took place was 1. empty shed. 2. get truck stuck in snow. 3. almost take out neighbour's deck trying to get truck out of snow. 4. realize the place we're renting a unit from closes their office at 1730 and we have no keys! At this point Ryan has his mom drive me back to Philly to get the key to the storage unit and he and a few helping hands work on unsticking the truck and accomplishing the rest of their goals. I stay home and pack some boxes, the idea being to get as much of MY stuff as possible also into the unit to avoid moving day chaos as much as possible in May. Ryan makes it back with the truck, and he, Rich, Kris, and I fill the truck with as much of my stuff as we can and head out. We make it to the storage unit 30 minutes before they'd warned me the gates would lock us in, and we pushed it to the very last second before we tore out of there like we were on fire. We did, indeed, make it out before being trapped inside. Unfortunately Ryan and I still had an hour or so left fort he next day. My sincere gratitude, however, to Rich and Kris for all their help, especially to Rich for driving the truck when Ryan's legs started to severely cramp.

Sunday was a mess not really worth narrating. There were a few key points though. After maneuvering the 15' truck through a serpentine Taco Bell Drive-Thru (my baby gets an award!), we returned the truck and headed to Center City to look at an apartment building. After going to the wrong building (oops!) we found the one we wanted where they handed us a binder of mostly outdated ads for available units. We did find one guy who was rather shadily stalking around the lobby to show us a ratty condo that reeked of formaldehyde and tried to convince us the internet in the business center was better than having internet in our own apartment. While we were in that unit Ryan received a reply from a voice mail he'd left a different leaser. He sent us up to see his unit, and it was absolutely gorgeous. We took one look at it and went "this is our apartment." Now we're waiting for the applications to go through, so everyone send us happy apartment vibes!

Yesterday I took the train out to NYC to audition for the remake of the game show Password. I think I did pretty well! Now I just have to wait for a bunch of execs to decide whether or not I did well. It was a beautiful day in the city. I really wish I'd had more time. I was walking down 5th Ave and I found my ring in a window. Looks like it's going to run us about $12000 if we're actually going to get it. Most likely not. The guy offered to sell it to me for $4500 if I put it on layaway, but I really couldn't see doing that. It was gorgeous though. :) After the audition I got to have dinner with Kiyoko and her beau. It was great to see her! I really wish I could get to NYC more often. She's like my sister and I only see her once a year or so. Meh!

Today I got a bunch of bills and things taken care of. It felt good to be taking steps in the right direction. cat was supposed to come today, but the weather kept her in Chicago. Hopefully she can make it tomorrow.

In any case, I've got some things to accomplish before Ryan gets home.Gnight all!

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