SUCCESS

Will and I have been patting ourselves on the back all day today. (Don't worry...we're staying inside so people can't see our smugness.) What could possibly justify such a display?

Well, we found a condo yesterday. In about 2 hours.

[Back-patting break.]

We had an appointment to look at an apartment around 1:00. It's in Old Town (hurray!), only two blocks from the King Street metro (yippee!), and directly above the Old Town Whole Foods (uh oh.) The man who's currently leasing it just bought a row house, so he needed someone to take over the last 6 months of his lease. We thought this was perfect...we could get this now and spend more time looking around in January, when we aren't also dealing with pretty significant life changes. We left the apartment, went downstairs to get some things from Whole Foods, and decided at the fish counter that we should cancel all of our other apartment appointments and take this place. (The employee getting us our fish was very amused.) By about 3:00, we were writing the check for the security deposit.

Anyway, the place is fantastic. It faces the courtyard, is RIGHT next to the condo's gym, has a pretty kitchen and high ceilings...I'm so excited to move in and start settling it! Lots of pictures to come, no fear.