Signed our lease
The apartment complex offered us a deal:  half a month's rent if we signed our renew lease early.  So we did.

Along with executing the lease itself, a girl in the office updated their information sheet on us--contact info, emergency contact info (our moms), descriptions of our car and cat, etc.

We've lived here a long time now.  For about 7 years, during and after my house collapsed, we lived in a one-bedroom apartment.  Then, about 7 years ago, we moved across the parking lot and one buidling over to the two-bedroom apartment that we just renewed the lease for.  So, for something like 14 years, they've asked every year, "Do you still work at Motorola?"

Once I reminded her that the Motorola site had closed last summer, she remembered it.  (It was big news locally.)  She asked where I was working now, and I said that I was a full-time writer.

I've had the opportunity to say that before, and it's always satisfying.  This time, though, it gave me a different kind of shiver.  I momentarily imagined them grabbing back the half-executed leases and saying, "Only people with regular jobs can live here!"  They didn't, though.  The girl wasn't quite sure what to write down, but Jackie suggested that she put "self-employed," and that took care of the form.  They didn't seem concerned beyond that.

It was an interesting reminder, though, that we might have trouble if we wanted to move.  I suppose I could offer to pay the whole year's rent in advance.  (Interestingly, our lease is actually written that way--we owe the annual sum, which "purely for our convenience," they'll let us pay in monthly installments.)

In fact, though, we've been really happy here.