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On Friday night I stayed at home playing video games until 3:30...
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Saturday was moving day! After two years of dating (with only one break up...a new record for me!), Meredith and I decided to move out of our separate apartments and get a place together. Here's the living room of the apartment on 3rd & B that I shared with Niki. Almost all packed and ready to go.
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I'm the worst procrastinator ever and so when everybody showed up at my place, I was still in the midst of packing.
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So the girls took it easy while I finished. Hahaha.
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The affair started low-key with the usual suspects (Grant, Fatty, Katie, Amanda and Siege) chilling in my room.
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Then as more people started to arrive, we moved out into the living room and set up Dance Dance Revolution! I'd even gone out a few days earlier and bought a second "dance pad" so that two people could go head-to-head in a competitive DANCE OFF! Here's Meredith and Grant squaring off.
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The next morning Grant came over to my apartment bright and early (wearing his GRIZZ shirt, no less) to test out Dance Dance Revolution!
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After a last-minute present run, Grant and I returned to my apartment (aka - Gift Central) to start wrapping them.
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On Wednesday night, Grant and Ellen came over to play...
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...Dance Dance Revolution for Xbox (which Grant, Fatty and Amanda had chipped into get me for Xmas).
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Fucking amazing gift.
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On Saturday morning, Mer and I got our Thai food brunch on and had a Lost DVD marathon.
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On Friday night, Sarah and Leigh came over (with Piper the puppy!) in the pouring rain to bring my a belated birthday gift!
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I hooked it up to my newer computer and spent a whole bunch time browsing my old files and copying over anything of interest before I f-disked it and put it up on craigslist.
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After brunch, Niki found my one of my "secret" books (check out the book's title and Niki's school-teacher expression and try to not laugh) and read excerpts of it out loud to Karen and Kim...
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Five short blocks later, I was dropping off the last of my stuff to our new (totally pimped out) pad!
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Meredith snapped this pic of me enjoying my newly-unpacked bedroom.
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Then Ellen came over and helped me unpack and set up the new TV. Thanks, honey!
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After eating, Meredith and Ellen came over to Niki and my new apartment to check out the view from our sick roof deck. Here's Mer and Niki.
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On Monday morning our new furniture that we'd purchased on Friday was delivered. Here's our living room filled with boxes. Fast forward a few hours later and...
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...check it out! Furniture! We have furniture!
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And here's my new bedroom!
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Here's to new roomies! Opa!
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Later that night Niki and a few of her friends came by to drop off some of Niki's stuff...
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...and I busted out the decorative bottle of Ouzo (shaped like a Greek Warrior!) that my parents had brought back for me on their trip to Athens. Here's my new roomie Niki admiring him.
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Meredith cut right to the chase: she popped his lil' Greek Warrior head off so she could drink his delicious licorice-flavored blood.
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Niki's friend Karla (aka "Hot Karla") showing him off.
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Here's all my stuff dumped into our new living room! Woo!
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My future bedroom! After running a bunch of other errands, I headed back to Fatty's two hours later (around 4pm) and was totally stunned...
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We met up at Kinko's, prepared everything we needed to submit to the building's management company, and faxed it over to them.
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Niki's future bedroom.
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Our future kitchen.
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...our future apartment! The current occupants were nice enough to tolerate our picture taking and measuring. Here's our future living room.
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Later that night, Grant, Amanda and I headed over to Fatty's apartment to enjoy the dinner that he and Meredith had whipped up! First a little tomato, basil and mozzarella salad...
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After my run-in with GREATNESS, I went to check out a different apartment building a few blocks away over on 3rd & C which ended up being the place Niki and I eventually moved into.