Felix Felicis

did someone slip Felix Felicis in my coffee? feels like yesterday was a lucky day. everything seemed to be working unnaturally in our favor.

giving the rent check to Stella (our landlord) we reminded her that we wanted to move to a bigger apartment, and she admitted that there might be one available for september. it's a large one-bedroom apartment on the 9th floor, with view to the lake, a huge living room, an enormous bedroom, 1.5 times counter space in the kitchen, it's awesome. 850 sq. feet vs. our 500 sq. feet... we can get a dining table, AND put the dresser in the bedroom. yeyy!!!

we then called a cat-sitter and she offered to board the scroogim for the entire time we'll be gone, for an affordable price (the same price we use to pay the lady in the building or doru the maintenance guy to come over and feed them every day when we usually travel!) - which is almost 3 times lower than her usual fee.

finally, while dinner (corn pown and salad) was in the oven (well, not the salad, duh), i let the scroogim out to run about and play in the hall (they like sniffing neighbors' doors - but i watch over them, so that they don't wonder off into the elevator and disappear). we met our neighbors from down the hall, a very cute couple (hero and todd(?))(yes, they are both guys), who immediately fell in love with gray and black, and were thrilled to take care of them while we're gone. so from no scroogim solution, to two reasonable options, all in one day!
we're having dinner with the neighbors tonight, see how that goes. it's nice to finally know someone in the building besides the employees...

and to top it all, no tub poop!! (maybe because we kept the bathroom door closed... hmm)