I got to look at three apartments yesterday. One was an apartment I actually visited when I first moved to Atlanta, over three years ago, and I loved it at the time but they didn’t have anything on the top floor (one of my stipulations, since I was a single female). The apartment complex was sold and completely renovated, and I was excited to go back and look again. Let me say, it is a BEAUTIFUL complex! Right along a…
So I mentioned yesterday that our plans to do the apartment ministry have fallen through. (Which is fine.) We were in the midst of trying to decide whether we should move or not when our lease is up in October. We have some very good reasons for moving. Besides all the downsides to our current apartment, we realized that we could move to the area of town where we’d like to eventually buy. We could get an apartment, allowing us…
Little known fact: My front two teeth are fake. No, really! I chipped them both off when diving into a pool during swim practice in 10th grade. (Do you remember that, Olivia?) I had a swim meet the next day, and my parents had to rush me to a dentist to get it fixed before the meet. But this post isn’t about my front two teeth. I successfully avoided the dentist for four years, until this past June when Paul…
Oh I have so many posts to write! I think I will work on them and set them to auto-post this week. :-) Most of the posts have to do with our Adventures in Homemaking, which for some reason seems to have turned very difficult. In addition to all the traveling we get to do in August, we also have to worry about life here on the homefront. As I mentioned, we steam-cleaned the carpets. After almost two days, I…
The smell! The SMELL! The joys of having cats. :-) I have been complaining for a while now about the smell that has permeated our apartment. This is due to a variety of things: Two cats who don’t like it when we go on vacation and therefore leave “presents” for us to find when we get back. A litter box that is fairly clean most of the time, but sometimes goes a few days too long without being scooped. New…