Day 667

Oh my word.... it's been such a long, draining, awesome, and eventful day.

Wanna know what time today started?  If you guessed 5 a.m. you're pretty accurate.  Kimmy and I had quite the day ahead of us, so we got up at 5 and got ready to hit the road.  We had to make a quick stop at Wal-mart for motion sickness stuff for Kimmy, then it was off to Louisville for some apartment hunting!

The trip down was uneventful.  We were both surprised how busy it was at 6:30 a.m.  It never got too bad, just a little slow at points.  Mainly around the bridge into Kentucky heading to downtown at 8:45 am.  Which, you know, makes a ton of sense.

So we got to the first apartment complex, which was pretty much right down town (or at least very close to it).  After we figured out where to park, we went inside and talked with the property manager and another guy who helps out.  We really liked them a lot.  They were incredibly helpful, funny, and nice.  The guy who showed us around was a huge cat fanatic, so he and Kimmy hit it off immediately.  And by "cat fanatic," I mean that he goes around to known locations of homeless cat colonies and feeds them through out the day.  Unfortunately, they didn't have any available apartments to show us, but they went through all of the paperwork and handouts, then gave us a tour of the facility.

After we left there, our next stop was... strange.  We walked into the office that smelled like cologne and immediately (seriously less than 2 seconds after walking in) a stylish and quite attractive man comes from around a corner, greets us, leads us to a table, hands us brochures, papers to fill out, and wants to know where we were interested in looking.  I was incredibly thrown off.  So he shows us to the townhouse we wanted to see.  It was fine... but very short.  It felt like it had 7 foot ceilings.  It just made us both feel pretty claustrophobic.  It looked AMAZING on paper, but we were very "meh" about it once we looked around.

Our third stop did not go quite as planned.  After we finally found where we were going, we drove around the parking lot for the complex for a while but couldn't find the head office.  When we finally DID find the office, there was no place to park.  There couldn't have been more than 5 parking spots in front of the office... and it was on a hill.... and we were just flustered and a bit put off (I feel so judgmental right now).  So.... we left!  Yep, we decided the apartments didn't look that great, so we just turned around and left.  There was a complex next door, so we checked them out.

And my goodness, are we glad we did.  They were so nice.  Very spacious, nine foot ceilings, a working fireplace, a very generous patio, each apartment has its own security system for the doors and windows, and it has a really nice view over the Ohio River.  The only issue here is that (currently) only the two largest (and most expensive) models are available.  The largest is probably outside our price range.  The other one is on the border... I would need to take a look at everything again.  Hopefully something a little smaller opens up... I was told to check back in a couple of weeks to see if something else had opened up.

Then it was back to Muncie!  Oh boy.  We got back around 4:30 and we were exhausted.  Kimmy drove the last half of the way home because I was starting to get pretty tired.  After we got home, we relaxed for a bit and ate dinner.

But wait, there's more!  Around 6, we left the house for more exciting times!  This evening, Frank Warren gave a presentation at Ball State campus regarding his PostSecret project.  PostSecret is a project created solely for sharing your secrets anonymously, for whatever reason you may have.  It was pretty awesome.  He started off by talking about why he began the project and how it started.  He shared some of his favorite secrets and various other important things that he's learned a long the way.  The one thing he kept mentioning that made me think a lot is that when you have a secret (and everyone has at least one secret), you have the choice of either sharing it, hiding it from others, or hiding it from yourself.  At the very end, he let people (probably about 15 or 20) come to a microphone and share their secrets and confessions.  It was really deep.  Three people talked about within the past week they'd made plans to commit suicide, but some little thing kept them from doing it... and now they're going to seek professional help after hearing all of the encouraging words at the presentation.  It was all really impacting.  I had considered not going because I was so tired from the trip, but I'm so glad Kimmy convinced me to go.

Ok.  It is time for so much sleep now.  Yes.  Peace out.