Finally tapping an available resource

Yesterday was clean-up day. I vacuumed the apartment for probably over an hour, because the previous tenants apparently had no idea how to use the crevice tool on their vacuum. The carpet and wood trim at the edges of the room actually changed color when I cleaned them. That was kind of gross, but the pound and half of dust I got out of the living room really gave me a sense of accomplishment. Nina vacuumed her room as well and cleaned the kitchen and bathroom, so the house is looking pretty nice right now.

Then we headed to the space, which was a full house (a rather rare occasion) for more clean-up. This was the best kind of clean-up though, where something is picked up and its owner has 30 seconds to identify it and defend its usefullness our it gets thrown out. A lot of stuff got thrown out, and what didn't was reorganized rather effectively.

Then me, Nina, Matt, Mike, Sean and Susan went to this place called Millhouse Panda. It's a slightly upscale Chinese place, and it was a great time. We laughed a ton and I got the *ahem* "Peking Chicken Stuffed With Mushrooms On a Bed Of Steamed Vegetables." Also known as number 28. It was really good, and for desert we got fried apples. They had so much sugar on them. It was great.

And as for this resource I'm finally tapping, you might notice that I am posting to my blog, which means I'm using the internet, and it's not a work day. This is possible because I finally realized I live 45 seconds away from the Space, which has a whole lot of internet available. We'll be getting cable and internet at the house on Friday, and this (plus work) should hold me over nicely until then.

Final thing before I leave you alone. The main reason I really want internet these days is for my money stuff, especially since I've bought a lot of stuff lately and I'm switching banks to a Hudson Valley one, and I've got to say that the Hudson Valley one is pretty sweet. Better interest, slim-to-none for account minimums, ATMs that you can deposit a check at and it will actually read the numbers right off the check and confirm the amount with you, and most importantly (as of right now), their routing number listed right on their website. This is clutch because I'm running out of money in my Rockville checking account and have no convenient (or fast) way of putting it back in, but I've got to pay off my credit card somehow and I have a couple paychecks just sitting in my HVCU account.