March 06th, 2010
… I’m not going to bother coming up with a fancy blog title today. I have no will and/or ambition to do so. So, I haven’t blogged in quite a while. There is a reason for that. If you’re following me on Twitter @EternalAmour, then you’re already well aware of the craziness that has been going on in my life. When I say crazy, I more or less mean the obsessive compulsive behavior that I seem to have picked up now that I know we’re getting a new apartment. (If you didn’t know that we were moving why not catch up first here by reading: http://eternalamour.com/what-a-day-life-altering-changes-explained/) So, what’s been going on you ask? Why I will tell you. I will tell you well… Okay. That made no sense. Regardless, it doesn’t matter. All we need to know is that I’m going all OC about moving and packing … and designing. Let me explain…
First off, we went to look at the apartment again yesterday. It wasn’t nearly as big as we had both remembered it. Yes, it’s still big. No, its not bad that it wasn’t as big. Do I regret getting the apartment? Absolutely not. It’s still going to fit us, and all our stuff – hopefully. The last time we looked at the apartment we both did a really quick walk-through and didn’t pay attention to details just size. Not to mention, Mike was doped up on vicodin because of getting his wisdom teeth pulled.
I had a few problems with the the apartment the last time we went, those included:
- coin laundry in basement (we currently have a washer and dryer in my unit that is my own)
- kitchen is small
- school is further away
- pink tiles in the bathroom o.0 Yikes!
Alright, so all that stuff doesn’t sound too bad right? Well, really they’re not horrible cons, just something I’d be sacrificing moving in to this place; definitely something I’ am willing to do. Upon walking around again we finally got to see the basement, which we didn’t see before. We noticed that our storage locker was a very decent size and a plus is there’s built-in shelves which is really nice. The laundry room is an actual enclosed floating little room. – Usually when you live in an eight family apartment building you have 2-4 sets of washers and dryers in the basement just floating in the middle of the basement. Which worried me because I questioned how the hell I was going to be able to do the laundry while having Mikhail with me. Well, that worry was smashed when I saw the laundry room. Which is seriously this little brick room that is floating in the middle of the basement, completely enclosed and locked. So, I would just have to get the clothes and everything down there with Mikhail and then have him run around the little room (he can’t get in to too much down there since its probably only 10ft by 10ft) while I do my laundry. Awesome. One problem solved.
The next thing was that the kitchen a lot larger than I remembered. It was still smaller than mine, but who cares? It has a dishwasher! There was a really nice black shelf that was at eye level across the entire length of the sink which I thought was really nice. I was thinking of getting a vinyl decal that says “A cup of coffee shared with a friend is time well spent” which you can preview here: link I just don’t know if it will fit and would have to measure the shelf first. I’d also have to see how far the light is above the sink (or if there even is one)
The next thing is the dining room. You are probably saying, “What could possibly be wrong with a dining room?” Well, not a lot can be. I thought it was a lot bigger. You see, I’ve been over thinking this whole moving thing. Designing stuff in my mind, rearranging furniture and such already. Well, I failed to remember that the dining room is NOT as big as I recalled it being. *shrugs* That’s alright. So, I can’t set up the layout like I originally planned, I can work around that, right? Absolutely. So what else is the problem? Well, you see I recently went on an excursion to find some new fabric to reupolster my dining room chairs. I found some that I really liked after a long extended search and a lot of different choices of “I kind of like this one, and that one.”. I went with the red with tan, green, and dark brown accents. It has an oriental or asian like feel to it. I even bought some canvas to make a few wall panels to hang above the table to really make it look awesome…
So, awesome. Right? Yes. I thought so. I plan on doing a nice red or tan table cloth and some other accents on the table and/or centerpiece. So what’s the problem? I failed to notice the first time I went to the apartment that there is country-like wine & food platter wallpaper border around 2/3 walls of the dining room. Son of a bitch. Will it be okay? Absolutely. I’ll make it work. I noticed the colors in the wallpaper border do match the chairs, so that worked out for me. I will just have to either some how cover it up temporarily or just put stuff in front of it and hope no one notices. We’ll figure it all out when we’re there. I will make it work!
So the bathroom tile is peach, not pink. You also can very easily cover it with a shower curtain and it’s not that bad. Besides that, everything else is white so no worries about what colors I’ll do the rest of them!
The kids room is just as big as I remember it, if not bigger. They have the biggest room of the entire house. Even bigger than the living room. I showed a few people this picture and they thought that this was a picture of the living room. Remind you, the window on the right side is only half the window and there is just as much space as you see on the opposite side (meaning the window is in the middle of that wall on the right) … same goes for the other window too. Pictures never do any justice to size of the room because you can’t see the whole thing.
So, what else can I tell you? I made some magnets to go for my new kitchen…
I honestly don’t have much more to say. I’m really excited to be moving, if you haven’t noticed already. I am getting anxious and all that too. I am losing sleep over this, but that could just be my new medication I’m on. I’m extremely restless with stuff running through my head. I wish I could just turn it off.
We haven’t quite decided whether or not we’re going to get the internet immediately after we move in. We might wait a few weeks before getting it. The main reason for this is that we are paying a little more with this apartment and we need to get used to that bit of a price adjustment. Not only that, but we have a lot we can get done and quite frankly don’t need to be distracted with the internet. I get SO much done when the internet is out. I have no will power to keep myself off it. I have no self control. *hangs head in shame* I am an addict. I admit this. So, we’ll see what happens. I’d still tweet and stuff via my phone, so no worries about keeping up with the latest and greatest.
I may or may not write another entry from now until the move. I just don’t know how busy I will be from now until then, and obviously if I don’t write for a few weeks after, you know why.
