So.  The grill got put together.  And Will graciously gave me the “inaugural grill” so I made chicken.  I have never grilled anything in my life (I’ve only been on the eating end of this particular style of cooking) and you know what? They turned out super awesomely good.  So good.  Oh my god we are going to grill all the time.

Except we already broke our “okay, except for my birthday we are going to try not to go out to eat anymore.”

Wait! Let me explain!

Will is pretty good friends with one of the cashiers he works with.  We have gone out with her and her husband before so when she asked Will if he would help them move this weekend of course he said yes.  That is what we spent Sunday doing.  Okay, technically Will helped them move.  I was brought along “for company” and to keep people entertained.  I did no heavy lifting whatsoever but Will and the rest of the guys? They moved two U-Haul loads full of stuff across Hillsboro.  And some of it was incredibly heavy and both locations had stairs.  I? Sat in the kitchens of both places with our friend and her best friend (who is now my friend too–I like making new friends!) and wrapped dishes and talked story and made jokes.

Can I just say?  I am absolutely without a doubt three hundred percent jealous of our friends’ new place.  They managed to find a house in a new subdivision that was renting for less than a thousand a month.  It’s has two floors, three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, a small bonus room (den/formal living room/whatever else you can do with a 10×10 open space) downstairs, a laundry room with a washer and dryer already in them, a ton of storage space and a two car garage.  If there was a public transit stop even remotely near the subdivision I have no doubt that Will and I would be finding ways to justify the expense of moving there.

As it is…well, you know how it goes.  When you help someone move into an awesome new place you start daydreaming about how you would arrange your furniture in there and what you would do for decorations.  And because you don’t have any money at all and cannot afford to even daydream about moving any time soon, you start to daydream about ways to improve your current location…and, of course, all of the new improvements cost money as well.  So there is a lot of frustrated daydreaming going on over here.  But it helps us talk about what we want in a new place and where we hope to relocate to (we both really really love our neighborhood and hope we can find a nicer place in the same general location when we are ready to move again).  And, of course, we keep catching each other looking at local real estate listings.

*Sigh*  So many fun things to daydream about.  So little money to make any of the daydreams come true.

After spending all day helping our friends move, none of us was in any shape to actually go home and cook, so we all went out to Red Robin together and kind of stayed there until the manager told us that they were closing.  And? It was really nice to just spend a few hours hanging out and “chillaxing” with friends.  And? Every time we come home from something like that we talk about how awesome it would be to have something resembling a social life and people to get together with and in a few days we’ll be back to our usual “I just want a lazy weekend” selves.

Today was spent hanging on the couch.  We turned on the TNT Bones marathon and I got a bunch of writing done while Will played his game.  Will grilled steak for us for dinner (yummm).  Hopefully tonight we’ll get to bed at a decent hour because tomorrow is an early day.

So yeah–we have “we want a new place!” stars in our eyes and we already broke our “we won’t go out to eat” promise but still? It was a good weekend.