Well I'm all moved. In fact my home health aide did the final cleaning of the old apartment yesterday and I turned in the keys. I think they will probably find more things that needed to be cleaned but my home health aide did quite a bit to clean it up and that's more than can be said for most people who move out of here.
I have a dishwasher............................................ That's so neat and needed.
I still have a lot of boxed in the new apartment that need to be unpacked. Here's the problem though, things are not in the same place they were in the old apartment so I have no place to put some stuff. Especially the things that were once on the little shelving unit next to the end of the couch where I always sit. That is now across the room with the printer on it. Some of the things, like the phone books can go back on there but the other stuff is things I like to have close and don't have anyplace to put them now. I suppose I can put some of the stuff on the bookcase that is now next to me but I don't want to load that up with stuff.
Well now that I'm here I've found some things that are not the same as the old apartment and the one before that. The bedroom is even smaller but now I have 2 bedrooms so I'm not going to complain to much about that. The living room is much bigger which is very nice and now I have a separate dining area for the table and side board. I like that quite well as well. It's nice to finally have the table cleared off so I can have people over to eat at it. I have already had someone over and had dinner there. The kitchen is also bigger. I have more cabinate space so I can put some of the stuff that was on the counter in the old apartment under the counter. I still have all the stuff that I had over the cabinets up there as there isn't that much more cabinate space and the shelves in the cabinets are low so I can't put tall stuff in them like the old place. That stuff is under the counter now. I have a fairly new refrigerator and that's nice. However, when they came in to clean the apartment the refrigerator got turned up all the way and everything in it froze before I knew what was happening. I turned it down and it seems to be better. I have found that I need to get at least 3 more lamps for the apartment though. I only have 3 now, one in the living room, one in my son's room and one in my bedroom. I need to get at least 2 more for the living room and one for the dining room. It gets very dark because I have no ceiling lights except for the kitchen, hall and bathroom.
And speaking of the bathroom, I have never seen one so small. There is about 4 inches from the side of the toilet to the wall, 4 inches from the vanity to the toilet and the same from the vanity to the bath tub. The bath tub is even shorter that my old one. The room isn't big enough for me to stand in front of the vanity and have the door open. It's not only small in lenght but narrow as well. Plus the door doesn't like to shut without having to push real hard on it. I don't know why the painters feel they have to paint over the hinges but it makes doors hard to close when they do that. Come to think of it all the doors except the front door don't close all the way unless you push hard on them. But the bathroom is bad because the door knobe doesn't always open the door. I got stuck in there for about 15 minutes the other day because I couldn't get the knob to turn all the way.
My front door on the other hand doesn't latch. If I leave it unlocked and someone opens the security door up stairs or in the hall down here my door opens from the air pressure. And locking it takes a lot as well. You have to jiggle the door back and forth to get it to lock. Not something you want to do when your half asleep in the evening. I have made a list of things that need to be fixed here and hope that the guys show up today to fix them. Especially the front door. I don't want to leave it unlocked to just pop open and have the cats wander out because of it. I also don't want to keep it locked all the time because my friend comes over and can't juggle the door to lock it.
The dishwasher has a wheel that comes off but that's minor. It does make noises when it starts up and if and when the guys come to fix stuff I'll start it up to show them the noise it makes. I had to run out and buy dishwasher detergent for it but didn't get the one I wanted. I have to get a rinse aide for now but next time I get the stuff for it I'll read the package completely to make sure it's one that has the rinse aide included.
Can't wait for cable, internet and phone to go on tomorrow. There had better not be a hitch with that or I'll be very upset. I need to call Charter today to check and make sure they will be coming tomorrow. Right now I'm piggy backing on my friends internet and because his apartment is next to mine I can use one of his many hand sets for his phone in my apartment so I can make calls. My cell doesn't come in to well here in this apartment like it did in the old one. I'll be happy when I have my own phone and secure internet.
Oh yah, if anyone finds a pair of wire rimmed reading glasses, power 1.75 or 1.50 they are mine. I seem to have lost them somewhere in this vast space I now have in my new apartment.
Good bye for now and if you find my glasses let me know. In fact if your in the neighborhood stop in and see me.
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