Almost settled

Well, it's another beautiful day here.  It was 17 degrees this morning (62 for you all stateside) and about half the people walking down the street were wearing winter coats and scarves.  I guess this is what it's like living in LA when winter approaches.  The moment it goes below 20, people start to bundle up.  To me, this feels like a perfect spring day (except leaves are falling off the trees).

I'm still waiting for confirmation on the apartment.  I've been told that they're just waiting for the developer to give them the actual move in date to put on the lease before I can sign it.  They've said I can have the keys as early as next Friday.  Hopefully this all works out because I had to give 21 days notice to leave the temporary housing.  So if this falls through, I could be couch surfing for a little while.  I've been working on tying up the loose ends with getting the apartment, it hasn't dawned on me that I really need to have furniture in place when I move in (at least a bed at the bare minimum).  I've been through a few furniture shops as I find them, but it's been just a casual stroll trying to get an idea on prices.  This weekend, I think I have to actually start buying stuff and scheduling deliveries.  But I need to have a move in date before scheduling a delivery (you can see where this is going and get a look into the past few weeks here).  And, now that I think about it, I made sure the place has air conditioning but I didn't ask about heat.  I would assume that it will have heat, but I guess nothing's a given over here.

They do have Ikea over here, so I'm going to venture out to the west to find that this weekend.  It also seems like a bunch of furniture stores are having pre-winter sales here so hopefully I can find some good deals.  But of course, I don't have any dimensions of the place so shopping for couches and tables will be a little interesting.  Oh well, its all part of the experience.

Lastly, for today at least, if Ikea is the furniture winner I'll get to rent that car a lot sooner than I planned.  I'll make sure to rig the camera in the dash to capture all the excitement of my first right and left hand turns so you all can experience that with me.  It should be fun and definately something to look forward too.

Hope everyone had a fun Cinco de Mayo (we tried to bring the holiday here, but people don't seem to need a holiday here to drink mid week) and the Seis de Hangover wasn't too bad.