On the outside, I try to project an image of having it all together. But underneath that, I'm kind of a disaster. Hence... the name of the site: GlossyVeneer. We began the search to find our future housing this week. We looked at apartments on this trip. We don�t really want to live in an apartment, but we�ve heard rumor that you have to get on waiting lists really early if you want to get into one, so we thought we�d see what was on the market, just as a back-up if we can�t get a house. At first it was very depressing. But then we started looking into the Summerlin area, and we�ve decided that�s where we want to live. Apartments were still a little depressing, but the area was definitely better. Then we found a condominium complex that is selling units right now. They�re all brand new with lovely cabinets and granite countertops and garages and don�t feel like apartments. So those are tempting us right now. They�re also in a perfect location for Kevin to hop on the freeway to go to work everyday. But we�re on our way to finding our future home, which is both scary and exhilarating at the same time!
Some interesting items from the trip:
- We passed a man in an ill-fitting tuxedo dancing on a street corner while singing into a toy microphone and holding a doll. This wasn�t on the Strip; this was just in the middle of a shopping district in west Las Vegas�. and he wasn�t just dancing slightly; this guy was full-on busting a move. It�s was hilarious. I wanted to keep driving past him just to watch!
- We went to a Virgin Megastore to purchase a gift for my mom. As we were checking out the clerk said to us, �You guys seem familiar. You come in here a lot, right?� Later, at the Cheesecake Factory, the waiter asked us point-blank, �Where are you visiting from?� I guess our media purchasing habits make us fit in with others, but when we declined the wine with dinner and after-dinner coffee, we didn�t fit in at the restaurant.
- Monorail�. Monorail�. Monorail�. There is a monorail in The Vegas. I�m going to live in a town with a monorail. I didn�t see it running, but apparently the new monorail system is supposed to run the entire length of the Strip. For some reason, just living in a town with a monorail sounds incredibly funny to me.
- As we were walking through a parking garage, a woman gathered her three small children close to her and said in a frightened voice, �Watch out for the federal hyena.� I�m hoping that I misheard her, but she sounded genuinely frightened of the �federal hyena�. What�s a federal hyena?
- And lastly, nothing says �Merry Christmas� quite like the Salvation Army bell ringer standing in the midst of the Las Vegas Boulevard with several porn-hander-outer dudes next to him.
I�m moving to such an odd land�.
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