The Apartment

Well, we finally have the apartment pretty much set up. At least, everything that is ours and was outside of the apartment is now inside the apartment and, on a good day, I can get everything spic and span (except this one closet which we affectionately call the Craft Closet, because Craft is a nicer word that Chaos.)
So two weeks in and the dust has settled!

When I first found out that my plans had changed and I needed an apartment, I thought stress had just taken flight. Roost might have been a better word.

I walked into the apartment office with this silly idea in my head that I could go in, have a look, sign the lease, and unload my car.
WRONG!

Background check, credit check, employment verification, "which will only take 3-4 days"
WRONG!

Then I got DENIED!
"for a criminal record."
I DO NOT HAVE A CRIMINAL RECORD!!!!

So I called the background check people who never have any representatives available and always take my name and number to call me back.
And they sent me my records.
Apparently, that one day, that I got a ticket for something silly and decided it wasn't worth my time to go to court, it was really just too ridiculous (a story for a another time) by paying I was actually pleading guilty to a MISDEMEANOR!
THEY NEVER TOLD ME THAT!

So I go BACK to the apartment building and tell them the whole story and they were like, "wow. that is ridiculous. I'll call my manager and give you a call back later today."
The NEXT day:
"Oh yeah, I meant to call you. He said you can move in."
"Great when!!!!???!?!?!??!"
"After the paperwork goes through SOMEBODY ELSE! One week."
Grrr.

THREE weeks later!
"Ok everything is good to go!"
"Great! When can we move in?"
"Oh, the manager doesn't want anyone moving in until the 15th."
ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!!!

But one of those ladies was looking out for us and had us move in on the 9th.

Then moving in happened.
More stress.
But now it's done.
And I have time to do things like write a blog post.
Ahhh...

(As I look back on my original plan of coming back from PNG getting my apartment and putting it together in two weeks and then heading to VA to finish preparing for the wedding, I realized that plan was more than crazy intense, it was impossible. Thank God I do not have the stress of going to VA to prepare for my wedding knowing that I will not have a place to live after my wedding!!)

Below are pictures of the apartment 2 or 3 days after I moved in. I'll post pics of what it looks like now later.

Guest Bathroom. It's kinda ugly but I don't go in there much so...


My bathroom! All this pretty stuff I got for free at the Boutique! (which is a free thrift store for Wycliffe and PBT and GIAL students)


This is the guest bedroom where we put everything to make chaos isolated.


This is the master bedroom and that is my pallet on the floor.


And this is the living room WITH A FIREPLACE! SCORE!