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I'd stimulate it if I could...

Yesterday Danny and I had President Truman to thank for a paid vacation day.  I've never heard of anyone celebrating his birthday, but I'll take it.

After hitting up Racanelli's and Jilly's Cupcake Bar* we headed back to his place for some major disappointment.  I was expecting to stimulate the economy sometime this week, but it turns out that I might have to wait a month for a stupid paper check.  Since we both used TurboTax and did direct debit rather than printing/mailing the form to the IRS for direct deposit, we have to wait for the checks.  According to the schedule I shouldn't get mine until the middle of June, which is a month longer than I expected.  Sure, it's kind of like free, unexpected money, but I was still counting on it. 

Anywho, my serious lack of funds lately has greatly influenced my apartment hunt.  Our lease ends June 30th and I've been stressed out since early April trying to find the best place to live.  Danny has to live all the way in Florissant so I was hoping to move somewhere central like U City or Clayton, but everything is either too expensive or available too early thanks to the high density of college students.  In the end, I decided to rent from my dad in South City.  Yes, it's the opposite end of the city from Danny, but I'll be closer to work and most of our drive to see each other will be straight highway, no hwy 40 either, so it actually shouldn't take much longer than it does from my current house in Kirkwood.  At least according to Google maps. 

The plus side of renting from my dad is that I won't have to sign a lease, so I can move at a later time when I haven't been stressed to the point where my eye is twitching for weeks on end (I think we're looking at week three here).   Also, I just really like the apartments.  Dad owns a couple of four-family flats and he has rehabbed both of them.  Both buildings still have the original fireplace/mantle/mirror setup so those look really nice even though the fireplaces haven't been in use for decades.  He has redone the hardwood floors to gleaming perfection, and he pays a lot of attention to detail such as keeping the original molding and pocket doors.  Plus, the bathroom has a claw-foot tub which is definitely my style.  The current tenant in my future unit should be moving by the end of this month I believe, so unless she changes her mind and stays, this will be where I'm headed.

I can't believe I'm going to be living completely on my own for the first time in my life.  It's going to be very, very strange.

*Ok, if you haven't been to Jilly's Cupcake Bar at Delmar and 170, you really need to check it out.  The cupcakes are huge (I had to take half of mine home with me) and they have a bunch of tasty, creative combinations.  Danny had a lemon/raspberry cupcake with raspberry filling and buttercream frosting flavored with either raspberry or lemon or both.  I had one called "Jilly's on the Beach" which was vanilla cake, key lime custard filling, and mango buttercream frosting.  Simply amazing.  Go check it out!

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