happy

it's been a busy week but i've gotten a lot done. i cleaned up my old car yesterday and posted it on craigslist tonight. http://richmond.craigslist.org/cto/1127554357.html. and we found an apartment. a one and a half bedroom in a building with about a dozen other units. it has laundry facilities in the basement and the smallest dishwasher i've ever seen. it should be under eight hundred with utilities. we saw it today and got our applications and deposit check in tonight. when i went to drop it off the lady said a person they showed it to yesterday called right after i did and said they wanted it. so we got it just in time. we're getting it the last weekend of june. so we'll have time to move our stuff out of this place before the lease ends here but not be paying double rent. so i'm happy. this is my first day off work in a week. so the pets will finally get cleaned out tonight. just a few days overdue. i'm going home sunday to get my birth certificate so i can get my passport in next week. turns out i can use just the birth certificate to get on the cruise. but it'll be good to get the passport made too. my teacher finally read my guyana story and loved it. she gave me some pointers and said after i work on it more she can help me get it published. so all this hard work has been worth it. it usually is.