August came to a close with a weekend
of partying with our friends from church.
The first was going away party for our
friend Lisa. A young couple from our church, Ruth and Jesse, recently
had to move out to Seattle due to a job transfer, and Lisa, who has
apparently always wanted to move out west, decided to follow them. So
Kelly hosted a party where we all got together and made a scrapbook
for Lisa and did some awkward dancing in her tiny living room.
The next day, the Hanes and Cannariatos
hosted a 1920s-40s party at their place. This is something they had
been talking about doing for a while, and it finally all came
together. Everyone dressed up, while Nick mixed gin beverages. There was
even a small back room for poker and cigar-smoking. Very authentic. Overall, it was quite an exhausting weekend.
In other news, we have found a new
place to live. We've been living in the small studio we moved into
when we first arrived in Chicago 10 months ago, and for a while we
had hopes of creating a community house with some people from church,
but for various reasons that idea kind of fell apart. So now, we'll
be moving into a 3-bedroom place with our friend Kelly next month.
We're very excited, and I'm sure we'll share more details as we make
the move. In less exciting news, we have technically already moved to
a new place. After some miscommunication with our landlord, we had to
move to a different unit within our same building when he thought we
were moving September 1st and proceeded to rent our place
to a new tenant. We didn't realize the mistake until late last month,
so we had about 10 days to get all of our stuff in boxes. Luckily,
when the 1st of the month rolled around, some people from
church helped us carry those boxes down three flights of stairs to
the 2nd floor, and we were able to make the transition in
about 3 hours. For now, we are living out of boxes, which is kind of
a nighmare, and makes us all the more excited for October.
Also, I recently went and got our car
window repaired. As some of you know, last month some coward busted
out one of the windows in our car in order to steal our
point-and-shoot camera and my backpack (which luckily, at the time,
only contained my work uniform). If you're doing the math, this means the glass window was more valuable that the combined worth of our stolen stuff. We waited a few
weeks to get the window repaired just to make sure we could afford it
without slipping on any of our other bills. In the mean time, we had
taped a piece of cardboard over the hole, and, after enduring several
rain storms, it was starting to look pretty rough. In fact, the day before getting the window replaced, I had to reach back and grab the cardboard to keep it from flying free
as I drove down the street. Fortunately, things are now repaired and the window is good as new.
Tonight, we are driving down to
Lexington for a long weekend. Our friend Cam is getting married, so
we're excited to celebrate with all of our college friends and visit
some of our old haunts in Lexington, since we haven't been back since
Christmas. I'm sure our next post will be all about our trip.
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