Moving forward.

I got a call from Dawn yesterday, finally giving us the go-ahead on the DUMBO apartment. She heard back from the landlord and managed to talk our monthly rent way down - so now this place is actually within our budget. Is Dawn a savior and magician? Yes, and yes.

Today we have to drop off our fees for the credit check, and then the powers that be will take it from there. We're still going to look at some back-up places tomorrow, in case something goes wrong and we don't end up with the apartment ... but mostly it'll be an effort to placate my parents, who will forever believe that our neighborhood of choice is a ghetto (despite city-wide statistics indicating a higher rate of violent crime on the UES than in DUMBO).

So things are looking good. We still have no furniture and no jobs ... but we may have an apartment.