Prairie and I looked at an apartment yesterday evening up in North Seattle (just off the 130th St. exit from I-5) that looks really good. A 1960’s-era apartment complex, decent sized 2-bedroom with fairly new appliances in the kitchen, ground level (but rather than being open to the street, it’s half-sunk and looks out into a rock garden with cherry trees), parking spaces, a storage locker, good laundry room (not in the unit, but good sized and with new machines), a pool (!), and only a few blocks away from her sister. Looks very promising, and the landlord was a sweet lady who’s very involved with the neighborhood community.
We’ve got two more to look at today — another also off the 130th St. exit that Prairie will be looking at today while I’m at work, and one roughly halfway between Green Lake and Carkeek Park that we’ll both see this evening — so with any luck, one of those three will be the place, and we’ll be able to put money down and start the process of moving within the next week or two.
I’m going to miss being with walking distance of downtown a bit, but the tradeoff is more than worth it (finding a 2-bedroom in the $800/mo range just isn’t very easy this close to central Seattle), and between Prairie’s car and the bus system, it’s still a quick jaunt into the core of Seattle for when I want to come in for clubbing, wandering around, or anything else I might want to do down here.
We’re keeping our fingers crossed, but at least judging by yesterday’s showing, things are looking very promising. Yay!
“So Much” by Impossibles, The from the album Ska: The 3rd Wave, Vol. 4: Punk it Up! (1998, 3:23).
