Sunday night after working at Hartford I checked out a pretty sweet apartment on Connecticut just a block east of Grand that Caitlin and I decided we’re taking. The place is currently inhabited by an old Greenville classmate and Lisa told me that she was moving out this month. It’s really great. 1 & 1/2 bedrooms, pretty decent size living and dining rooms, several closets all around, wood floors, central A/C, thermal windows, basement with laundry hook ups and plenty of storage, fenced in back yard with porch for BBQ’s and a place for my future dog Gary to frolic and poop. It hit every little thing on my new apartment short list. Needless to say, I’m stoked.

We should be moving in, God willing, over the weekend. The current resident, so I’ve heard, should be moved out by Friday. Once I get confirmation of this from either her or my new landlord I’ll need to be making arrangements for picking up the furniture still in Greenville with Avery in our old apartment (anyone with a big truck out there who’d let us borrow it/like to help?) I know Curtis is down, but we might need another big vehicle.

Monday Caitlin, Curtis, Avery and I moved most of our stuff from Greenville out to Josh’s place in St. Louis. We’re both pretty grateful to Josh for allowing us to crash at his apartment as well as have all of our stuff strewn about his entire place. We have quite a large amount of stuff, though I was surprised that it fit in so few storage containers. If we ever move across the country or anywhere that we have to move in one day we’re definitely selling and getting rid of much more stuff before that move must be made. Such a huge hassle. And I don’t like putting people out and forcing them into hard labor without being able to really compensate (though I did buy Avery and Curtis some Mi Ranchito. Which made us equal at least.) It’s good to have great friends like Avery, Curtis and Josh.

And another thing, Richard hates driving in the car on the highway. He constantly meows in a way that says how much he hates it. I can’t imagine taking him anywhere that would take more than an hour. Even an hour was too much. We’d probably have to drug him with cat nip. Or drugs.

Today I spent the day finish up odds and ends in Greenville, cleaning our old place and moving more stuff here. I was amazed at how many things I did in about 3 hours. Returned 5 books to 4 different places, got an oil change, paid a parking ticket, turned in my key and set up getting our deposit back, deposited some checks, cleaned and arranged the left over stuff and vacuumed the old apartment and had a brewskie to cool off near the end of the cleaning and still made it back to St. Louis before Caitlin finished her shift. I’m awesome.

Oh, I think I neglected to mention before that Caitlin now works for Starbucks Coffee Company with my old manager Jen. Before I got the job at Hartford I asked Jen is she had any openings for me, but she didn’t. A few weeks later she asked me if I still needed a job but it turned out I didn’t and she was willing to give one to Caitlin ’cause she knew she was still looking. So far she’s worked three shifts and is beginning to tolerate coffee. She used to take one gulp and get sick, now she’s “double-fisting” two different drinks at the same time as she so eloquently puts it. And she made me a quite tasty Iced Double Shot today. I’m proud of her. I can’t wait for the Starbucks perks to kick back in too. Mostly the weekly 1lbs coffee or 1 box tea mark out!

Anyone have any cool fourth of July plans? I’m hoping to BBQ somewhere around lunch time and into the afternoon then go down to the river for the free Sonic Youth show. What are ya’ll doing?