Well, this time I'm for real. I found my new apartment!

It's small but cozy and nice. It's cheap. It's not in the area I was looking for but it is in a nice area.

I sign the lease on friday and I will begin moving in saturday and next week.

It's an upper flat of an old house. It's got a decent size bathroom and bedroom (nice) and the kitchen and dining room are in the same small room (I can deal with that).The rent is very good, $390 a month utilaties included.

The landlady is a nice old cat lady who lives in the first floor of the house. She is semi-retired and works a couple days a week.

However, it is way to small for all the furniture I enherited (is that how you spell that?). I asked the owner if she would have any place I could store it, she said she only had the garages (she also owns the house next door) and they are already full of her stuff. So I have to find a place to store that stuff. I probably will only have to find a place for the dining set. Maybe my parents will let me store it in their attic or basement, or at my father's shoe store. Either way I can work it out.

But here is the best part of it. I was at the shoe store when the lady called to tell me that it had just become available. My father called when I was on my way to make sure it wasn't a bad place that is about four blocks from the apartment (the place where the state put the sexual predators when they get out of prison). I, of course, said no. He aksed me where it is.

As it turns out that this apartment is the apartment that my grandfather on my mom's side first lived in when he moved to Lansing right after World War II.  That's kind of cool, huh?  

Any way, now I have to finish packing and move. I also need to look for a possible second job so I won't be totally broke (even though it's pretty much a sure bet that I will). This should be fun

Thanks for Reading,

Mark M.