I officially moved out of my old apartment last night - I did one last walk-through and then turned in my keys at the leasing office with about 15 minutes to spare. What a relief! Now I can focus all of my energy on moving forward, rather than spending time re-blandifying my old place back to its pristine white-walled glory.

The new place is coming along - we've got the kitchen and bedroom and basement in general working order, and now its time to focus on the living room and all of those pesky extra boxes lying around. The one thing I seem to be missing a lot of are those pesky metal brackets that hold my IKEA IVAR shelving together, though. Those things are the hardest to keep track of!

I'm also wanting to do a little damage control on the front yard. My landlord didn't seem to want to do any sort of yardwork that involved actually touching the dirt, and so solved the problem of weeds in the lawn by spraying it liberally with - get this - Weed & Grass Killer. So now the lawn is half dead and (still) covered in weeds, and if I don't do something soon we will indeed earn the title of Most Ghetto House in the Neighborhood. So I've got a bag of turf repair seed in the trunk of my car, and this weekend I'm goin' to town!

I can't really make the yard look any worse.