Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Movin' on up

I'm in love. Completely, utterly, and totally in love.

With a button-cute, over-priced, under-spaced Dupont Circle apartment.

I've never felt this way before, I think about it all the time. I think about it's cozy little kitchen where I could spend hours ordering take out baking muffins and its quaint little balcony where I could curl up in the sun and read US Weekly Jane Austen.


I love this apartment so much, I even think about it while I'm in my old apartment.

The journey towards Dupont Circle residency can be a little intimidating. When I first moved to DC, I got sticker-shock from the cost of a beer. Participation in DC real estate was unfathomable.

When I presented my completed, co-signerless, lease application to the property management, I half expected them to chase me out of their office with a broom, "Shoo you rascal, you go back to the Commonwealth and you stay there!"

Fortunately, my parents are always on hand to provide financial guidance.

Parents: How's the apartment hunt?

Me: I think I found a great place. It's a safe area to run and really close to my new job. It's expensive, the rent is $[insert cost of a Dupont Circle apartment here].

Parents: Dial Tone.

Our deepest fear

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? 

~Marianne Williamson