we're moving to seattle!

i'm sure i've read some stuff recently, and i'll hopefully get around to posting about those books in the next day or so, but i've been too busy with everything else to bother with blogging much.

Jak and i had planned to move to Seattle next year, but a whole bunch of things happened in april and may that made me reconsider that plan. so in may, i asked him about the possibility of our moving there this summer instead of next. of course, since i have impeccable timing, he was in the midst of finals. he pretty much just stared at me, then he said we'd talk about it once he'd finished up school and graduated.

to make the story short, we decided to see if we could do it. of course, that means he has to relocate for work, we needed to break our lease, i needed to find an apartment out there, and, most importantly, we had to come up with a few thousand dollars that we didn't have so we could pay for moving expenses.

in a very short period of time, we were able to get the money, straighten things out with his job, and talk to our landlady about our current lease. we couldn't afford to be paying two rents at once, so we were kind of stuck until we knew if this place would be rented. i finally got tired of waiting, and figured that this was a great enough place that it would be rented. so on a weds night a few weeks back, we bought airline tix for me to go apartment hunting in seattle. the next day our apartment was rented out.

i spent a week in seattle looking for an apartment. i called at least 80 numbers, talked to maybe 20 people, and only saw 3 apartments. the first one smelled of weed and mildew. . . the second one, well, the landlord had been smoking too much weed, and i never heard back from him. so i went with the third one. of course, i saw that one on the day i was leaving, with just enough time to fill out the paperwork, grab my bags, pick up my friend whose car i'd borrowed, and get to the airport. perfect timing.

essentially, things couldn't be working out more perfectly than they are.

i'd love to spend a whole post here talking in detail about the absolutely amazing people i met in seattle and what an awesome time i had. . . but since we're leaving here on friday, i still have a ton of packing to do, and should get to it.