The New Place

So after 14 hours of driving, we finally arrived at my apartment complex. It's near a university, a golf club, and a state park (the mountain namesake of the park looms up over the apartments), and about a half hour from school. Yeah, it's a bit far away, but this is a two-bedroom, 1.5 bath, two story townhouse-style apartment. Very nice, and very affordable. Besides, all of the apartment complexes I found online were about the same distance from school, five or take five minutes. But with gas at $3.49 (cash), it's a bit more affordable!

So here is the part of the complex. Mine is the third door from the left. And I get both floors! And that is my car and my U-Haul out front. U-Haul made me pay for five days, so we took two days to unload it.


A close-up of my undecorated door. I need something to put there on the outside. I can't have any signs in the windows, but I can have a small, tasteful decoration on the door. Any suggestions? (Let's keep it family-friendly and remember that I am in the wrinkled-leathery spine of the bible belt.)

One of two (count 'em, two!) pools available for residents. The one nearest to me is smaller and closes at 5:00, but this one is open until 10:00. Lots of people enjoying it every time I go by. They also have dumpsters for residents and three laundry facilities, which have all worked really well. So far. I'm sure something will go wrong at some point. You know, someone is washing their grits-stained coveralls and it jams up the machine...


myB and I found this great family restaurant called Gene's between my place and downtown. For $3.99 we each got two eggs, choice of meat, a huge helping of grits, and unlimited coffee. Yummy. There are even caricatures pastel portraits of Gene's family members, larger that life, on the back wall along with newspaper clippings from decades ago that probably meant something to someone at some point. myB said he knew it was quality because there was an old black woman in the kitchen making biscuits. All in all, a great experience and highly recommended.


Kasia helped with the unpacking by making sure the bed linens didn't escape the closet. I swear the closet was closed when I left...