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Finally, we are scheduled to get our stuff today. I have the key to the freight elevator and the truck is expected at any time, so we are FINALLY going to get totally moved in.

Which is good, since my mom arrives Saturday for a visit. But let's get caught up, as it's been a fast and furious week.

Last Thursday we worked around the house, went to Home Depot (of course), and finished up the painting in the second bedroom because we'd gotten a call that the guys were coming to install the carpeting on Friday, rather than on Monday as we'd been planning. Okaaayyyyy. So, we got that done and the room looks pretty great, and will of course look even better with furniture. This is The Room of Many Colors and once we get the accent pieces in there it will give seizures to epileptics.

Thursday night was dinner with my friend Fritz, someone I've known almost 10 years, who's in town on business. We met up with him and his new girlfriend (who lives here) which was fun as Fritz is a pretty fun guy in an Eddie Izzard sort of way (though he's not a transvestite or anything like that...so far as we know...). The last time we saw Fritz was in Hawaii last year and the last time before that was in Alabama and the last time before THAT was back here in DC. So yay for seeing him here.

Friday was the carpet installation which was took a little longer than I expected...I mean, it was only two bedrooms, after all. We watched the World Cup while they did their thing and every now and then they'd stop for a break and watch it too (World Cup is kinda big here, seeing as we have folks here from everywhere...there's a very happy guy from Ghana driving around with a big flag on his car). The rest of Friday was pretty chill, I'm not even exactly sure what we did, though we DID try a pho place near here and found it was a nice change from the "pho for white people" we had in Alabama and Colorado.

Saturday Dancin' Mike came over and we went out for Chinese food and spent the afternoon hanging out. We hadn't seen him since getting here and he and Adrian had never even met (I now have only one other friend Adrian hasn't met...so c'mon, Tom, come on over!!). Mike is proof that "when it rains, it pours" -- he moved back from California this spring and had trouble finding a good job, then all of a sudden he had a full-time day job, a bartending job one night a week, he was in school, and he was dancing with a company doing a show at the end of the week. Oh, and his boyfriend was visiting. Yeah, the universe plays its little jokes sometimes. Anyway, Mike is amazing, he is one of my favorite people in the world for a lot of reasons, and he's so much fun to be around. I'm glad he and Adrian hit it off because that makes life so much better.

Saturday evening was spent with Adrian's family, at a cookout celebrating his sister's partner's graduation from her second master's program. His brother Khamla was there with his new boyfriend who is a cutie and who seems much nicer than any of the guys I've seen Little Brother La with before. They were really cute together, they seem to have a really nice relationship, and I look forward to seeing it grow.

Afterwards we went to Velvet Nation because, y'know, that's what you do. At least, that's what WE do, though not many other people seemed to, it was really dead, which was a little surprising considering they're closing their doors in a couple weeks. We figure a lot of the normal crowd might've been in NYC for Pride, and in the summer a lot of people go to the Rehoboth Beach for the weekend, so maybe that's what happened...Mike said that Apex was pretty slow, too. Anyway, we had fun, and if nothing else it gave us more room on the dance floor.

We got up LATE Sunday and then met up with Angelo and Josh for brunch. We were headed to the District but were hungry so we only went as far as the Carlysle Grand, which is changing from "special occasion place" to "our regular place," and that's absolutely fine with me. Afterwards we headed out to Tyson's Corner where we picked up some stuff for the home from West Elm and then of course headed to H&M and then to Armani Exchange, and yes, those pants look FABULOUS on me, thank you very much, and yes, that little shirt from H&M DOES fit me (OK, so, it's a Medium). I look like a little rock star with the H&M stuff and Adrian looks hot in his AX clothes.

The rains came Sunday night and you may have seen on the news that DC got hit hard and will continue to get hit all week (though the sun is peeking out right now, which is much better for moving in). There was some bad flooding a couple miles from here but seeing as we're on the 18th floor we're not TOO worried about that (though our building has suffered some damage, and there's a leak in the ceiling down the hall from us). Hopefully it'll stop for this weekend.

Monday was Home Depot day to pick up flowers for the balcony, then Adrian had to do something with his mom and I headed into town for a little "Will time." But the Metro was all dicked up because of the flooding and I didn't have much time there. I did bounce into Sisley and found some nice pants for myself (we'd been looking for dressy black pants at Tyson's but couldn't find any) and they were ON SALE so it's OK that I spent the money. No, really, it is. I mean, they're Sisley. And they were ON SALE. So it's all good. Plus I needed them. Plus they make me look like I have an ass. Then on the way home I stopped at Nordstrom's and got some Ed Hardy shoes because Dancin' Mike is my fashion icon and he had a pair that looked so good and I got a different pair that was more "me" and yes, they look hot, thank you very much. I'm sure you'd compliment me if you saw me in them so I'll just go ahead and say "thanks" for that.

Angelo and Josh were over last night so Adrian could do highlights for Josh and they looked really good, though with the lack of light here Adrian overcompensated a bit and took the hair a little, tiny, miniscule bit lighter than might look best. But that's fixable, much more easily fixable than, say, cutting off too much hair. Which happens, sometimes.

And the movers called and they should be here in a few minutes, so FINALLY this place will start to look more like a home!!!! A disorganized home, at first, but a home nonetheless.