First Night

OK, so the apartment’s not totally ready yet, as I’m doing some work on the place in exchange for a good deal (plus it made the landlord’s job easy, since he lives in Baton Rouge, almost 2 hours away, AND it bumped me up to the top of the list of applicants, since there were quite a few people beating down his door). I’m still painting some of the walls and replacing some light fixtures. The landlord had someone redo the wood floors, and now they’re shiny. He’s going to have someone come in and strip and wax the kitchen floor. I’m going to be replacing some blinds/curtains and doing some other sprucing up (on his dime). So it’ll be spiffy by the time I get visitors!!

Anyway, even though I am still waiting for my furniture and there’s painting gear in some of the rooms, and it’s not totally clean yet, I spent a great first night in my new apartment. Yes, my apartment – yay! Laid on my air mattress and watched “History of the World Part I” on DVD. Ate a Subway tuna sub and drank some beer.

Such a great feeling. I can finally stretch out again between my own four walls! I almost forgot how nice it is to have your own address, since I’ve been floating around the planet for the past year and a half… I’m back on the road to being a normal person again. (Can you believe it?)