Praise the heavens! We are no longer living in our yucky curry-scented apartment building!
For the past five months we have been checking Kijiji every single day hoping to stumble across the perfect place to move.
a. It had to be within our price range
b. It had to be close to the college
c. It had to be bigger than our current place so we wouldn't have to move if kiddos come around in the next few years.
d. We really had our hearts set on staying in the same ward for church.
....This is why it took us SO long to get out of that miserable building!!
Our new duplex is about...50 feet from our old building, just right around the corner! So right there we met part b. and c. of our requirements! The ad said it was 2 bedrooms, but when we took a walk through...there was 3...plus a whole big area in the basement that wasn't even finished yet! I was a little nervous how much it would be, but actually it was in our price range! Our new landlord seems like the nicest guy and he was willing to drop the price for us if we (Travis) did some handy work while living here. All of our requirements were met and we moved! The move went great! We had tons of help and since we don't have kids, we don't have tons of stuff!
I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am not to be woken up to the smell of curry at 5am, not to be followed in the hallway by scary asian grandmothers and not have to hear foreign languages being screamed across the halls. I am also pretty happy about all of the space, carport, 2 bathrooms...the list goes on! We really got lucky!
I hesitate to tell this next story because my parents made fun of me for about a week after I told them...but I feel like we can all have a good laugh about it now!!
About 4 days before we moved, I went down my hallway in the apartment building because I needed to check the mail. When I got to the mailboxes there was 4-5 asian people standing around a box in front of the mailboxes...so I kindly made my way through the people and got my mail...when all of the sudden I hear a "cluck-cluck". I'm sure my face was priceless at this moment. So I look down at the box by feet and there are feathers poking out of the box. Yup. Live chickens. GROSS! I was pretty glad at that moment that I only had a few more days left in that miserable place. The worst thing is my landlord would have been to old and senile to even comprehend the whole situation.
Anyways...enough ranting! We are are just super thrilled to be in our new "home"! Here are some pictures! (keep in mind...they aren't the best!!)
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Bedroom: Still looking for cute throw pillows (or to make them) and still needing to
hang a couple things on the wall. |
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| Other side of the bedroom: Travis actually ran into that wall yesterday in the middle of the night and broke my J... |
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| Bathroom: Loving the blue toilet and tub...who even!? |
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| Office: Need curtains or blinds (I took these sunday right after church...hence the tie!) |
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| Living room: Kinda squishy! and our fish are in the corner out of the picture... |
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| Christmas Tree!!! Pink pink pink!! (And a christmas J) |
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| Living room wall: My attempt to be artistic and hang an arrangement of frames. |
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| Looking down at the front door. (Ps having a carport is great!!) |
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| Christmas shelf |
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| Craft room: Disaster. Need to organize. |
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| Storage room in basement |
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| More storage and view of unfinished room in the basement |
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| Kitchen table (with freshly baked banana bread...YUM) |
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| Kitchen: SO nice having a full sized fridge. |
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Kitchen: Disaster. At least Travis was kind enough to do the dishes!! Bonus!
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So that is our new little place! A big step up from our dingy apartment!! We are so blessed!
Speaking of blessed...I got a temporary part time position in the Operating room at the hospital!! Yay! (Except waking up before 6am is a real killer!!) Hopefully I don't mess things up too bad in there!
Thanks for creeping on my living space, I'll try to keep you all updated more!
