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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!

Last night Erin and I were watching some Adult Swim, when we saw the most hilarious commercial.  At first, both of us thought it was a joke, like what the Geico commercials are.  But, it turns out, it was no joke.

The product in the commercial was called “Bling it On”.  Essentially, all it was, was the holographic metallic stickers from the 80’s.  It was incredibly funny though, especially when the woman playing the mom interjected that even mom’s can use some extra bling.

I don’t think they actually gave a price for this special product, but I’m sure if you ran down to your nearest hobby store, you could DIY.

Update:
To see a video of said commercial, please view the comments, since Bree was able to find it and link to it for us.

Friday, after work I met Erin, Bree, and some of their friends at Ballydoyle’s.  They had had a stressful week at school and wanted to have a good time.  I got there a little bit before 7 and Erin and two others showed up at 7.  Then Bree and Eric showed up around 7:30.  A few more of their friends showed up around 8:30, and then we left around 11-11:30 (their stuff is actually the individuals at the bottom, and wasn’t that much).  It’s not good when the waitress says, “It’s quite a lot!” as she hands you the tab.  As you can see from the receipt (don’t mind the marked out entries, that’s just me figuring out what’s been paid back), the damage was steep, but a good time was had.

Damn, none of the $168 million is coming my way.  This is very unfortunate.

Edit:  Apparantly I wasn’t the only one not to win the $168 mill, since the Friday drawing is now up to $205 mill.