Signed, Sealed, and Stamped
Well, it's official now. Justin and I have a new address at Chase Village. All credit is cleared and checks are cashed -except for the application fees which they are nicely holding due to the fact that they cashed the $250 move-in fee sooner than I expected and took me down to the bare bones of my checking account. I'm taking donations for my poor-ness... but I should be OK until tomorrow when Justin writes me some phat checks to take care of all of the fees I covered for him.

Yesterday I spent most of the day on the phone, transferring all the bills in my name over to the new place. It was so great, having to cancel everything. It's somewhat scary to consider that since everything is in my name, it's part of my "credit." It makes me glad we've been paying on time. It's also funny to watch Reilly, who has no checking account even and expects roomates to accept cash in return for writing a check FOR him, because he's hesitant to put his name on any accounts. It's like he's a criminal or something. So I'll laugh come monday if he hasn't turned the power on... or gotten phone service (he has no phone anyway) or garbage.... in a month. I doubt he'll do anything for a while. I didn't tell him there's a $150 deposit on new EWEB accounts. But he does know that when I leave he won't have a single stick of kitchen furniture, utensils, or utilities left. Microwave is mine, table and chairs are mine, pots and pans are mine, all silverware and spices are mine... EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE DAMN SINK, LITERALLY. I get so much satisfaction out of this...

I told August about needing to hold my room so I can rent it out. It really is a huge asset to me. (The deal is that I'm in the master bedroom right now and when I leave I want him to refrain from taking it when he moves in because it's still technically "my room" because I'm still under lease... and it's the MASTER BEDROOM which is a huge asset for renting it out) He says he understands but I'm sure he's disappointed. In any case, the landlords know about my plans, and I am keeping some stuff in there just to "mark" it mine.

Now all that's left to do are two things: One, get this and next month's bills paid. Ty is mailing me a check today and if he doesn't, I'll cut off his balls. And Reilly will give me cash or money orders before this weekend. I'd write a check for him, but I ran out of checks yesterday. I'll have to give cash (if that's what he does) to Justin or someone else to have them write a check for me... I won't get new checks for another week. Because all the bills are in my name and I changed the address, they'll send me the last bills for the Kincaid house separate from the starting bills at Chase. Reilly and I will split these.

The second thing is, of course, finding someone to take over my lease. This is scary, I guess... but I have 3 weeks before I take alternate action and get Legal Services involved. Kim was stupid when she moved out... but I will NOT pay rent for a place I'm not living. The only think that I WILL allow to happen is them absorbing my deposits, and that's worst case scenario. I have fliers up everywhere and a few people interested so hopefully we won't even have to get into legal issues. But they won't screw me over...

I'm off to psychology class. Mata ne!