Good news:

I got the results of my follow-up cholesterol test and it was 168, which is excellent.  I also lost 15 pounds!  Woo-hoo!

We're pretty much moved in to the new apartment.  We brought the essentials and the big stuff, so now I just have to sort through the rest of it and clean the old apartment.

I love it here.  It's so small that I can't be a slob.  But then again, it's easy not to be messy because I don't have to work as hard to clean up.  The only thing I don't like is the full bathroom.  I don't need a tub.  A shower stall would have been just fine, and then I could have used the extra space for laundry stuff.  But I'm not complaining.  I love it.

Our washer and dryer are working great.  The dryer vent idea went bust, though.  After careful planning, cutting, and hooking things together (and about $40) it fell apart.  It ended up being easier just to throw the hose out the window went I wanted to use the dryer.  It might look ghetto, but I'm happily doing laundry at my own place.

In trying to maximize storage space, I was going to buy those under-the-bed storage bins.  But then I realized that I was going to need a place to put my suitcases.  Combine the two ideas, and BINGO!  The only problem was raising the bed so the suitcases could fit.  I tried to find these bed riser-things I'd seen before, but no one had them.  So I walked around Lowe's trying to find something cheap that could raise the bed.  Masonry!  I got four half-size cinder blocks for $0.95 each.  Ultra cool.  They gave the bed an extra three or four inches and I didn't have to spend a ton of money.