Apartamente Nuevo!

Okay, since the last post has kind of left you all hanging for the last week, I'd better elaborate on it a bit.

Last year, I decided that I would move out and get my own apartment some time during 2007, since my car was going to be paid off in the summer. Well, then my car got totalled in October and things were a bit of a mess until the end of the year.

I gave it a lot of thought, and even though I will have a car payment for a while now, I decided that I would still move out in 2007. It is time. The question then remained: when? In the spring, before the crazy summer season? After the crazy summer season? At the end of the U semester, when things are available? After the IKEA store opens on May 23?

So I got an apartment guide and started looking around online, just to determine what was out there and for how much. I don't want to spend my whole paycheck on an apartment when I could still be at home for (almost) free, so I was looking at the low end of the scale. Trying to avoid a studio apartment, that got a little tricky.

So I was passively looking through stuff but not actually going to visit any actual apartment complexes when someone at work told me that a 1-bedroom unit was coming available in the house she lives in. I called for more info on it, and the landlord invited me down to check it out on the first. It was okay, but dirty because of the previous tenant. She was cleaning and repainting, and deciding whether to replace the carpet, and said she'd get back to me.

Two days later, she offered me the apartment. Quandary! I don't have any stuff! IKEA is still 2 months off! What to do?

Well, I decided to go for it. It would be hard to get that much apartment for that little money elsewhere, and it is actually (21 blocks) straight down the street from work. Hard to beat.

So the apartment will be ready after the 15th, and I need to get ahold of a bed and some other furnishings so I can move in. It's in a house, 807 S 500 East, and I have a bedroom, front room, bathroom and kitchen. I share the back yard with another apartment, and I have access to free laundry through my co worker's apartment. I can walk to the park or to Trolley Square, and Smith's is just 3.5 blocks away. People at work have already offered me a table and chairs, two bookcases, an end table, and a $100 couch.