Pictures of the New Apartment!

Warning, this post is picture heavy. Lets hope it looks nice, pictures are so hard for me to work with.

The front door: I hang chimes on the
door because one day, while I was
 cleaning the walls, my landlord just
walked in. He was trying to sneak a
second set of keys to me and thought I
would be at work.

I just moved Gus's window seat, he hasn't left it since (I need
to find something to keep that thing up besides a book).

Gus's bum, the small bookshelf, and the entrance to the kitchen.

Computer desk, entrance to the hallway, and part of my tv stand.

My new tv stand!

Above the tv stand, I love the colors in this picture.

The kitchen!

I keep my little tv in here so I can watch something while I cook.
Current dvd in the player: Dirty Dancing. :)

The pantry/storage and stove. Gus likes going in this door, it leads
under the stairs.

The sink.

Yes ... this is my fridge. It was born in
1940 and hasn't moved.

Yup, its a Philco. The freezer is a little flat in the fridge. It
 is so small I can't even have a little ice cream. Cross your
fingers the requests I have submitted to my landlord
will be heard and I can get a new fridge!

Down the hall (yes we are going backwards).

This door is another story all together. I
have a bookshelf in front of the door
because Gus thinks it needs to be open.
It leads to the community basement
(unfinished), but I think my neighbors
 use it to sneak a cigarette. It sounds
like they are falling down the stairs every
night, no idea what they are doing. I keep
it locked and have only opened it to let the
Century Link guy in to set up my internet.

My bathroom is across the book shelf. It is
small, but works.

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I have no counter space.

I thought it was weird the toilet paper is on
the back of the door.

My bedroom! You can see the bathroom door in
this picture, if that helps put things in perspective.

My treadmill is right in front of the closet
door which is to the right of the bedroom
 door when you are walking in. Do you see
 that plug in? I will never touch that thing,
electrocuted myself the first week I lived
here. The wires are exposed. So that
leaves 1 plug in in my bedroom.

My bed, and yes it lives below Fred and George (twin spiders I
have living in my window). The only reason I let this happen
and don't have my bed in the living room is because the window
was painted shut. They painted everything here. Tape? Painted.
Door hinge? Painted. Latch? Painted. I'm surprised they didn't paint
 the window panes.

Ikea desk, finally got into my room like I originally planned. Yay!

I need a picture above this I know. I just moved
my bedroom around today, no one has seen it yet.

This is what I see outside my door.

Yes, I swept between pictures. This is leading
down to my front door.

This is what you see from the street. I didn't know
the apartment existed until I walked right up to it. It is nice
and scary at the same time.

Well, that's the whole tour. Tell me what you think!

Apartment

I promised some of you I would post pictures of my new apartment, but I haven't gotten around to it. I am sorry I will work on this.

I moved back to Pocatello, in case some of you didn't know. I got a job at Allstate and am working the Roadside Assistance. It is so nice having just the one job. I was exhausted all the time, no energy to do anything outside work. I would crawl from one job to the next, home to sleep, and back again.

I didn't realize how that was wearing on me until I moved back here. I am much happier now.

The new apartment has some ... interesting quirks to it. The first month I lived here I was sick, I am not sure if it was me getting used to the flora here or what, but my allergies and a cold lasted what felt like a life time. I had my humidifier running the first three nights. The last night I felt something fall on my forehead ... then my arm ... when I turned the light on my ceiling was dripping like the inside of a cave. Turns out I have to vents from my apartment to the outside, so if I shower or run hot water the steam sits in the apartment circling.

Now that isn't the bad part ... when I looked harder the ceiling was dripping yellow slime. The walls looked like someone had bled all over them and it was running down. Clearly the person before me smoked. So I spent the next week scrubbing the walls.

My fridge was born in 1940 and hasn't moved. I have the little flap for a freezer, which doesn't freeze. And you have to pull the handle down to open it, yes it is that old.

The nice things: I live in a basement apartment so the temperature is always cool, very nice in 100 degree weather. I also have big windows. Lots of light. My doorway is concealed so I don't have to worry about strangers finding my apartment, you can't see the door from the street. My neighbors are quiet, even if they have strange habits. Their strange habits have lead to me making friends at the bath and body works store. Speaking of which I need to stop by there again and get more air fresheners.

Gus is happy to be living here. He runs the place like its his own, there is a door that leads to the community basement and he thinks it needs to be open all the time. I have only opened it twice since I've lived here. I put a book shelf in front of the door and it's like the thing has disappeared. Funny how their brains work.

This is all I have for now. I will add pictures of the apartment, when I have a chance to make it presentable. Look forward to more posts.

-Ashley