adjustments

This bigger apartment has taken some getting used to on all our parts. For me, the biggest adjustment is using the front door. We never used our front door in the one-bedroom apartment… partially because the hallway leading to it was so darn narrow and partially because our garage was always so clean and could fit a car in it. Not the case here. There are boxes everywhere and lids and random stuff filling the garage…. I guess this is because it was a short move and friends helped and I was at the “old” place cleaning and couldn’t man traffic, so to speak. Because the garage is such a mess, we’ve been using the front door. I can’t speak for David, so I don’t know what the biggest adjustment for him has been, but I think it may have something to do with no longer using the kitchen light. He’s very sensitive to improperly working flourescent lighting and can’t stand the flickering of the fixture currently attached to our ceiling. The microwave has a small lamp feature (it’s above the stove) but it makes cooking feel like you’re cooking-by-candle-light. The maintence will replace bulbs but not the fixture and we know it’s the fixture since we ourselves have already replaced the bulbs once (from the other apartment, whose kitchen light did not flicker)… I think the cats have taken this move quite brilliantly. The only complaints I have heard have been from one of them looking for the other. There have been more “meows” in our life since moving. Mambo, strangely enough, has also become aggressively affectionate. He has never rubbed on us as much as he has in the last week. That’s a good thing, I suppose, from our point of view.

We’re looking forward to TMEA and seeing some of our college buddies with whom we have lost touch for a year. Speaking of that, I should be getting ready for the trip.