This weekend was all over the place.  It all began, Friday night, with me leaving Erin’s wallet in the cab to her friends place.  It and her cellphone were in my pocket.  Needless to say, when we got out, I had the cellphone, but not the wallet.  But wait, it gets better.  Then, on the return trip back to my place, the cellphone must have fallen out too!  Good to see I’m two for two.

Needless to say, the weekend revolved quite heavily around these two events.

Both times we lost something, we called the cab company, at least we think we called the right cab company.  It’s not really something you look at, let alone the cab number, unless something about the ride makes you think about it.  Needless to say, ride home, I got the cab number, just because I was thinking about it from earlier.  After calling the cab company about the cell phone, I repeatedly tried to call it, hoping someone may pick it up.  Well, someone did pick it up, but it was just to turn it off.

Hopefully that means that it’s at the lost and found of the cab company.  The only downside, at the time, was that the lost and found of the cab company we thought it was, is only open Monday – Friday.

Saturday consisted of cancelling all her credit cards, disconnecting her phone, and, you guessed it, sitting in line for 2.5 hours at the DMV.  Wow, I can tell you guys are incredibly jealous.

Unfortunately, this could not have come at a worse time for Erin, since she is incredibly stressed because of school.  Adding this on top of that, I think, is bringing her very close to her breaking point.

I just feel like such a moron for doing this to her.  Needless to say, there was alcohol involved Friday night.  But, on the up side, we had a good time at her friends place.

Lately Aaron and I have bought a lot of things for the apt and stuff, and since we’re geeks, they have mostly been online.  Not that that is a problem or anything, but shipping has given us nightmares (him more than me).  Thankfully I haven’t had nearly the headaches that he has (Aaron, if you’re reading this, you really need to write an entry about your tales).  Also, it just seems to happen with one shipper, UPS.

Well, anyways, I had multiple things shipped to my apt.  Oil and oil filter, fuel filter system, and xbox wireless controllers.  I never got a tracking number from any of the above, so I waited patiently.  Never was a tag put on our door for me.  Instead, Aaron got one, so he had stuff redirected to my office (changed the name to me, so the receptionist would know who they’re for).  Turns out that they just lumped both of our stuff on the same delivery notification, since my oil and fuel stuff got sent there too.  Not a big deal, but strange.

Now, I haven’t received my wireless controllers yet, so I sent the company an email.  They told me that they were being returned, since it had sat at the UPS office for 7 or so days.  Thankfully they are nice, and are sending me two more via USPS to my office.  As you can see from the screenshot of UPS’s website, apparently I called in, not once, but twice.  I wonder who this person was, but it definitely wasn’t me. 

Oh well, I guess it’s all worked out now, but I’m definitely sending everything to the office from now on.  That’s for sure

Ever since I moved to my new apt, I’ve walked by the Merchandise Mart and have seen the flyer’s for NeoCon.  Now, at the time I didn’t really know what NeoCon actually was, but it was going to be in the same building as LuxeHome, so I was excited. 

Well, of course, I remembered, yesterday.  Actually, I didn’t so much as remember, as I saw the Herman Miller, Steelcase, etc trucks sitting outside the Merchandise Mart.  So, I hit up the website last night only to find out that you have to pay to visit it.  That’s really unfortunate, because I wish I would’ve gone and snapped a few pictures to share. 

I guess I’ll just have to keep visiting Inhabitat instead, sigh.

Well, I picked up my keys to my new place on Friday.  Unfortuantely I won’t be moving all my goodies up there until next weekend.  However, I am happy to report that Erin is completely moved out of the dorms, and is in her new apartment.  It’s just a slight improvment.

Aaron is actually pretty much all moved in to the new place.  Granted, he doesn’t have much right now, but that should change on the 25th, since that’s when he’s getting a rather large load of furniture delivered.  Today we actually met at the apt and did a little bit of cleaning.  Man, we’re gonna need more “stuff” in order to fill it.  I knew that I didn’t have much at my apt in Champaign, but I think it’s going to be even more noticable here.

Anyways, I was looking at how much renting a Uhaul costs.  Man, they really want you to not move on Saturday’s don’t they?  First of all, their website actually uses some fairly effect propaganda to get you not to rent on a Saturday, and then they go and charge you $50 or more.  It’s not really a big deal for me though, since next weekend is a three day weekend, or at least it should be, I actually haven’t found out about that at work yet.  Oh yeah, and for some reason, I never thought it’d be that much.  It makes me wonder how much hiring people to do it would costs, though (little late now, and I won’t be around all week).

Oh yeah, and getting my furniture up the four flights of stairs in the new place could be interesting.  I actually took a look at it today while I was cleaning.  Should be a good time.  Thankfully I don’t have stuff that’s incredibly heavy, but the couch and stuff are fairly large, so manuevering them could end up being interesting.

I’m very excited about the new place though.  We’re thinking about making one of the rooms into a “music” room of sorts, since Aaron has a lot of guitars (plus amps) and a Sax, and I have a guitar and a trumpet that I can bring back from my parent’s place.  Should be good times.

Well, it’s been another two years, so it’s time to pack up and move again.  Man, and I thought it was bad when I lived with my parents and we moved every four years or so.  As you know from previous posts, I’m moving up to Chicago.  Aaron and I actually signed a lease yesterday for an awesome apt, that’s within walking distance of work (but not in a high rise).

The place is the top floor of a 4 floor walk up.  The first floor is actually the landlords office, and the other two floors are singles (each floor is divided in two).  The landlord actually used to live in the apt we’re renting quite a few years ago, so it has a lot of amenities: jacuzzi, custom cabinets, stainless steel range (viking exhaust that raises out of counter, just like my parents had a few houses ago), dual ovens, Sub-Zero fridge.  The landlord has a bad hip, too, so he installed an elevator;  a private elevator for only the 4th floor.  Plus, I’m getting a garage spot, which will be very nice.  I don’t think my car will know what to do, not being parked outside in the elements.  The place has gorgeous views of the city too, since it’s only 11 blocks west of downtown.  There is a shared patio on the back for all tenants.  It has a gas grill and a small fish pond.  I can see many summer evenings spent out on the porch with beers and burgers. 

All for under 1900 for the two of us.  We both saw it as a great deal and jumped on it.  I’m glad we did too, because apparently the guy showed it to a few other people after us. 

I pick up the keys on Friday, and Aaron may start moving stuff in this weekend.  However, Erin (oh wow, this is gonna get fun, eh?) is also moving to a new place this weekend, so I’m going to help her, and then, come Memorial Day weekend, head down to Champaign and rent a Uhaul to truck my stuff up.

To all my faithful readers, you know you wanna help 🙂  Beer and pizza may be provided!