Awaiting the Dawn

Tomorrow more adventures begin! We are walking to go pick up our Uhaul at 8:00am and driving it back to the hotel and can only be in the hotel drive-up for 10 minutes. In this 10 minutes we have to fit as many free double size mattresses and shove luggage into the empty spaces and then be off to our apartment across town to unload. When we arrive there we have to inquire with the landlord and workers in our apartment (yea, they aren't done yet..."a few minor things like the stairs and bathroom") to come and lift our mattresses up the stairs. If they are unwilling, I will be huffing it with my comrade Katie to lift (how ever many we can fit in the Uhaul van at once) up the stairs and into the rooms that are finished. Once we have unloaded, rinse and repeat until we have officially checked out of the Holiday Inn.

More bumps in the road--our place does not exist to cable or electric companies. They literally don't have any numbers that go up to Apt. #211. It is apparently some zoning issue because the place is new and gas comes from one building and electricity from the other building nearby. It's just a whole hullabaloo. BUT we still have heat and electricity going through the apartment, so that's what matters.

Today before figuring out that our place was invisible to all utility companies, we rented a furniture package from a place called CORT. We actually got a great deal and they assured us there were no bed bug worries, etc, unlike the thrift stores ideas of past (though we did some of this). Also we got a microwave with the package which will be essential and which would be much more expensive elsewhere.

Another fun thing from today was that I met with my faculty advisor/ City Seminar teacher named Deborah. She has such an artsy personality and soft voice, she's the most social work/therapist type person you will meet. She's great and we could talk about so many things. Interesting fact--her daughter got into U of M which is her top choice!

Prayer/ positive thought requests: our adventure tomorrow, positive attitudes, timeliness, and that we can get our utility bills worked out and make our apartment exist finally!