Bethesda is Where I Roll
I think I’ve seen the latest Gap commercial a dozen times and it
wasn’t until tonight when I noticed that it was Claire Danes prancing
around and ripping off the pants off of some dude. At least I think it
was her. I don’t think it was a coincidence that I just noticed her after all these weeks. I have to attribute this discovery to my new 50" TV and
the superb clarity of HDTV. :)
At this point in time, I am not sure if should be saying ‘Wow! Time flies! I can’t
believe it’s already been two months’ or ‘Whoa, it’s only been two
months? Feels like I’ve been here forever." My emotions teeter
between those two sentiments. With that said, I had to move out of my
cushy, furnished, corporate apartment this weekend. It kinda felt like bad timing during the move cause the weather turned to shit. It was cold and rainy and it snowed on Friday night too. Anyway, to recap, I’ve moved out to Bethesda, Maryland. I went to pick up my keys on Thursday afternoon and I went to check out the
apartment. Here are a couple pictures of the place: 
They cleaned up a lot of it and the bathroom looked a lot better than the last time I had seen it.
The only thing that bothered me about this place was the smell of it. It smelled like they had just applied some kinda pesticide and after 5-10 min in the place, it’s not that noticeable, but whenever I walk into the place, I smell it right away. I hope it’s not toxic! I’d open the windows to air out the place, but it’s freezing these days. It’s annoying enough so I invested in some aerosol sprays to freshen up the place. I may need some candles in the future too.
Overall, the move was a smooth success. I borrowed the hand truck from work and I rolled it through the streets of downtown back to the apartment. It made a world of difference. I had so many big boxes and heavy items, it would have taken forever if I attempted to move this stuff the old fashioned way. Many thanks to Jon and Christine for helping me out. We finished it off in two trips and we even squeezed in dinner at Cheesecake Factory. Yummers!
I took the next day off to meet up with the other movers. These are the guys with my stuff from Vancouver. Two dudes rolled in on time and the first thing they wanted to do was use my toilet. I hadn’t even christened my bowl myself and these guys wanted to do it for me. Fucking chumps! I let them since they hadn’t started to move my stuff yet. I didn’t want them to "accidentally" break some of my belongings. So they started to bring up my stuff and I went to check on the washroom to see if they had made a mess. I saw went drops of some kind of liquid on the floor. I only hopes it was their washed wet hands that they had shaken to make the drips on the floor and not some other body part that they shook all over the place. Grrrrr!!
So I left the door wide open to my apartment to let the movers do their job more efficiently. One of the guys had just rolled in some stuff and I heard a woman at the door and she was snooping around; "Oh! Is someone moving in today?" and the mover replied "Yup. He’s moving in today". She proceeded by asking "Is he nice person?" ~ now, as I heard this, I thought, ‘how the heck would this guy know’, but the mover said "Uh yeah, he’s a nice guy. He’s right here. Do you want to meet him?" I looked at him and we both gave each other the look like this woman was crazy. So I stuck my head around the corner and I saw this old frazzled looking woman with glasses, terrible makeup (like freaky ugly orange lipstick), and nasty ass teeth. She invited herself into my apartment and we exchanged plesantries. So now I’ve met one of my neighbours and her name is Margarite. She left and the mover and I just started laughing because we both thought she was nuts. Sweet!! Crazy neighbours; I’m overjoyed! I just hope she doesn’t make me a pie or something.
I spent the rest of the night unpacking and cleaning up.
The next day, Jon helped me pick up my TV. We were pretty lucky because when I got to the place, the guy said he was just about to leave early cause he wasn’t expecting anyone to show up that afternoon. I think if we were 5 min later, he would have left. Lucky for me. The timing of the whole weekend was quite impressive. I unpacked the TV 
and set it up and 15 minutes later, the Comcast guy showed up to install my cable and internet (even Dane Cooke was happy). The guy didn’t charge me an installation fee and he even credited me $20 because he couldn’t make it on Friday. Awesome guy! He told me that everyone in Bethesda was a bunch of snobs. This wasn’t the first time I heard this. I guess I’ll find out if this is true soon enough or maybe I’ll just fit in because I’m such a stuck up bastard too.
OK. So it’s been a few days now and since I didn’t bring much furniture with me. I’ve resorted to turning this place into a cardboard palace. The homeless people would be so jealous. Check out my cardboard coffee table and my cardboard side table: 
I really need to fill up the space of this apartment because it echoes when I’m on the phone. I need rugs and some tables. Actually, what I really need is a bigger kitchen. The kitchen at this place is sooooo tiny. I have no counter space. Check out this picture: 
You see that space in front of the toaster? That’s all the counter space I have left to use. I’ll figure something out. I sure hope my couch can fit the elevator. I measured it this morning and I’m really not sure if it’ll fit. It’ll be extremely tight if it does. Cross your fingers for me.
Anyway, it’s nice to sleep in my own bed and the commute to work isn’t too bad. I have to get used to all of this because I am kinda stuck here for a year. So I’ll make the best of it. That’s all I got for now.
