Thursday August 14 to Thursday 21
Wow, I have been bad at keeping this up lately. I will combine all of the missed entries into this one, it has been an exciting week.
Thursday, August 14
**Power Outage**
So with the lack of electricity to power the subways, I was forced to walk the 6.1 miles home. It wasn't the most intense of workouts. It took us (my wife, her boss, and myself) two hours to walk home . . . and we killed three 6-packs on the way LOL. I didn't go to the gym because they weren't open, plus I was a tad drunk.
Friday, August 15
Half of the city was on, the other half was off. We got power back on in the early morning, but my gym (8 blocks away) didn't get power until the afternoon. They never opened.
Saturday, August 16
My wife worked this day, so I thought I would do something productive. I went down to the American Red Cross (who is also my employer) and volunteered. They put me to work manning the phones. All-in-all, an interesting day. After I got home, I did my standard arms/back/abs workout. It was a particularly good day because I increased the weight on half the exercises and had a REALLY intense workout.
Sunday, August 17
Things were getting back to normal with the power, but I had acquired a new quest to find a new apartment ASAP. I had a great chest workout in the morning and walked all over creation viewing apartments. Nothing struck us as ideal.
Monday, August 18
After work, my wife and I met up and viewed three more apartments, still nothing we both thought was great. We did see an apartment in Spanish Harlem that I loved because it was simply massive. My wife decided that the neighborhood made her extremely uncomfortable. Particularly as a waitress at a restaurant that closes at 2 AM. No workout, but many miles were walked.
Tuesday, August 19
Again, a repeat of the last two days. We did a ton more apartment viewing on this day. We saw a great apartment that we both loved . . . along with the other 10 or so people viewing it at the open house. We filled out an application. No workout, but many miles were walked.
Wednesday, August 20
The owner of the apartment called to let us know we were their first choice for moving there. THE STRESS BEGINS HERE!! We needed to find a co-signer, come up with $3,000 and do a ton of other stuff inside of 30 hours. I left work early to sprint home to see what I could do with the bank. I also began faxing people like mad. We settled on using my Dad, but as it turns out he doesn't make enough (who ever hear of the requirement that the co-signer earn over 100K per year . . .sheesh). A ton more phone calls were made before we lined up my brother-in-law as the secondary co-signer.
Thusday, August 21
Another stressful day. I needed to get ahold of my brother-in-law to fax him documents he needed to get filled out, signed and notarized, but he was unreachable for almost the entire day. I asked everyone I know to borrow money for a few days, but only come up with $1400 of the $3,000 needed by 7:30 PM. My parents had offered to help the previous night, but as it turned out they only had $400 available in liquid funds. After a furious day, we were able to get a cash advance from my wife's credit card at 5:58 . . . minutes before the bank closed . . . but had to spend an additional thirty minutes on hold on the phone (inside the closed bank) while my wife tried to convince her credit card company that she was in fact herself. My brother-in-law called at 4:45 to say that he had received the documents and was running to a notary at that time. The leasing agency had closed by this time, so he was faxing them to where I work . . . on the other side of town. We pulled it off and now have a 4 room (plus kitchen and bathroom) apartment on Park Avenue off 97th St in Manhattan. I didn't workout this evening and even went so far as to blow the diet in my celebratory meal of Fajitas and Margaritas.
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