So, what are you doing on Saturday and Sunday?

If you answered nothing important, then you can have free pizza! Yes, free pizza! How can you get this wonderful and tasty food, you ask? Well, it's simple. You just need to help Ben and I move into our new apartment on Saturday and Sunday. Or one day or the other. It's not too far away (it's in Alexandria), located right off the Beltway (our backyard is simply a parking strip and a row of trees away from I-495).
Yeah, we are either signing our lease tomorrow or Friday. We originally scheduled for Friday, but since I'll be in Baltimore, it's probably going to be a lot easier to change it to Wednesday so I can stop by right after school.
It's a really nice place. One bedroom and one bathroom with a loft. The loft is fantastic because it means the living room is like two stories tall and has a large window looking on to the beltway. The bedroom has a vaulted ceiling and the loft is big enough to make a nice office for both of us. The kitchen is really small, but it does have a full sized washer and dryer. There is a lot of parking (and it's not parallel parking, either!). It is about $300 more a month than we wanted to spend, but after looking around Alexandria, we were going to be paying about as much as we are now for any sort of really nice place. I like this place because it has outdoor hallways (it really reminds me of an apartment building or condo community at Ocean City). Also, for Kayla's benefit (and jealousy), it has a Roman soaking tub. The complex is only 2.5 years old and they have a really nice cardio theatre (think about three of each treadmills, elliptical, and bikes each with their own plasma screen tv with cable). There is also an outdoor pool, picnic areas, free metro shuttle, and it's located on Van Dorn (the whole area over there is like Rockville Pike with overpasses). Also, there is a minigolf/water slide park nearby, and we are about five minutes from Landmark mall. So, I'm pretty excited, and really stressed. I'm going to be out of town on Thursday and Friday and I will have no time to pack up any of my stuff. My plan is to get all my stuff from storage and my basement and move it in this weekend. If you do help us move, you'll be happy to know that we probably won't be moving in anything really really heavy. The bed, couch, and big chair are in storage in Ocean City. So, you'll just have to move like boxes and bags (and maybe a TV, computer, and chair or two). Also, it's on the fourth floor and there is no elevator, so you will get all of your cardio workout done for the week in one day while helping friends!