What a day!

I am exhausted! Today was move-in day to my house, yay! This involved me lugging all of my stuff (which I'm estimating weighs over 200 pounds) up and down multiple flights of stairs and on two trains. Some kind souls helped me get my stuff down the two flights of stairs I was faced with, but of course I faced the one flight up with no help... go figure. It did make me resolve to never get morbidly obese, because lugging 200 extra pounds up a flight of stairs is something I'd like to have to do as infrequently as possible.
Thankfully, me, my stuff, and my housemates were met at the train station by the guy who's renting us the house and his car, so that was lovely. We then proceeded to the house, which is a lovely 5-bedroom place with a patio and only one bathroom. There will be six of us living there, so the bathroom thing could be an issue. But it's uber cheap: the rent comes out to the equivalent of not much more than 400 dollars a month, which is pretty darn good for Philly, let alone London! So I'm psyched. As cool as the house is, though, there was no heat and I don't as of yet have my own bedding or pillow, so I'm back at Janice's for the night.
Oh, and another momentous thing happened as well! Well, two I guess... first, I went to see Two Gentlemen of Verona with Janice. It was quite lovely, but performed by a Brazilian company, so it was in Portuguese. There were subtitles, but they were in Shakespearean English, as compared to the company's vibrant, obviously colloquial take on the play, which involved song and dance, acrobatics, and varying degrees of lewdness (though let's face it, Shakespeare is kind of necessarily lewd, eh?). So it was kind of confusing to watch, but entertaining all the same, and definitely worthwhile, since I'd never seen or read Two Gentlemen before.
Second (which happened first, but is more important, I think), I found the perfect winter hat!!! It was at a random little market at the Stratford railway station, which is near where I'm staying. The hat is rainbow colored (no surprise there), funky patterns, ear-flaps, little tassel-y things, generally adorable and very warm. It was cold enough tonight that I got to wear it, joy of joys! Plus it was hand-knit in Nepal, so I hope I'm supporting small business or something. And only 7 pounds! Delicious.
And that was my day! Hopefully tomorrow's adventures will include the buying of bedding and the turning on of heat (and fixing of the refrigerator, come to think of it... rather troubling, that). I hope you're all doing splendidly, and that your day is brilliant! (I like the British equivalents of "awesome" and "sweet" and such, so I think I'll start using them).
By the way, if anyone cares, my new address is 2 Henniker Road, London, E15 1JZ, UK ;)