Onward
Well, I am now actually done with work. For who knows how long. I'm unemployed. I don't think I'm going to write too much about it at the moment because I'm still not sure how I feel. I've been saying I wanted to quit for months, and I still think it was the right decision for me and my family right now. But instead of jumping for joy at the relative freedom in front of me, I actually came home from my last day of work on Friday pretty depressed. Just ask my husband what kind of mood I was in. It wasn't pretty.
But now I'm looking to the future, not the past. I'm done with work, Eric is done with finals (and came through very well, especially considering all the responsibilities he's had this term. "It was by the grace of God I didn't fail," he told me this morning.) Now we have a week to pack and make the big move on Saturday.
I'm adding to my list of good things about moving to Wilsonville. Although the house we've been renting for the past three years has been great for us and is in a fabulous location, it is an old house and thus has some drawbacks. Here are the advantages our new apartment has over our house:
1. A fan in the bathroom. Our current house has one bathroom with no fan. This means it gets all mildewy and gross. Plus, just because of the nature of what goes on in a bathroom, there are times when a little extra ventilation is important. I am looking forward to a non-moldy, non-smelly bathroom.
2. A garbage disposal in the kitchen sink. Those are just handy.
3. Bedroom lights that don't flicker. Our current bedroom actually used to be the garage of this house but it was converted at some point to a bedroom. That means it's quite large, but it also has industrial-style fluorescent overhead lights. When you turn them on, they flicker back and forth in a truly maddening way before finally deciding to remain in the on position. Sometimes jumping up and banging on them helps. Sometimes it doesn't. I will not be sad to say goodbye to them.
4. A dishwasher that is installed in the kitchen counter. Our kitchen here is old and doesn't have a spot built into it for a dishwasher. So we have a portable dishwasher that you wheel up to the sink, and it has a hose coming out the back that you hook up to the faucet, and it works just fine. Except there's no spot to put this dishwasher in the kitchen, so we keep it in the corner of the dining room, and then I have to push it back and forth all the time whenever I want to use it, load it or unload it. It's kind of a pain.
5. This is the biggy: fewer spiders. I am sure that there will be occasional arachnids at our new apartment. But there have to be fewer spiders there than in our current house, because there has never in the history of the world been a house with as many spiders as this one. Really big nasty scary ones. We had an exterminator come about a year and a half ago because the problem had gotten so bad, and for awhile it seemed to help. But now, especially as the weather is getting warmer this spring, they seem to be coming back. Mostly the smaller ones, not the huge ones, but it's just ridiculous when you're having to kill a dozen spiders a day inside your house. I am afraid of spiders and there have been times that I have been almost in tears because the constant barrage was freaking me out so much. I don't know if they nest in the walls here or what, but I will be SO GLAD not to have to deal with it anymore.
But now I'm looking to the future, not the past. I'm done with work, Eric is done with finals (and came through very well, especially considering all the responsibilities he's had this term. "It was by the grace of God I didn't fail," he told me this morning.) Now we have a week to pack and make the big move on Saturday.
I'm adding to my list of good things about moving to Wilsonville. Although the house we've been renting for the past three years has been great for us and is in a fabulous location, it is an old house and thus has some drawbacks. Here are the advantages our new apartment has over our house:
1. A fan in the bathroom. Our current house has one bathroom with no fan. This means it gets all mildewy and gross. Plus, just because of the nature of what goes on in a bathroom, there are times when a little extra ventilation is important. I am looking forward to a non-moldy, non-smelly bathroom.
2. A garbage disposal in the kitchen sink. Those are just handy.
3. Bedroom lights that don't flicker. Our current bedroom actually used to be the garage of this house but it was converted at some point to a bedroom. That means it's quite large, but it also has industrial-style fluorescent overhead lights. When you turn them on, they flicker back and forth in a truly maddening way before finally deciding to remain in the on position. Sometimes jumping up and banging on them helps. Sometimes it doesn't. I will not be sad to say goodbye to them.
4. A dishwasher that is installed in the kitchen counter. Our kitchen here is old and doesn't have a spot built into it for a dishwasher. So we have a portable dishwasher that you wheel up to the sink, and it has a hose coming out the back that you hook up to the faucet, and it works just fine. Except there's no spot to put this dishwasher in the kitchen, so we keep it in the corner of the dining room, and then I have to push it back and forth all the time whenever I want to use it, load it or unload it. It's kind of a pain.
5. This is the biggy: fewer spiders. I am sure that there will be occasional arachnids at our new apartment. But there have to be fewer spiders there than in our current house, because there has never in the history of the world been a house with as many spiders as this one. Really big nasty scary ones. We had an exterminator come about a year and a half ago because the problem had gotten so bad, and for awhile it seemed to help. But now, especially as the weather is getting warmer this spring, they seem to be coming back. Mostly the smaller ones, not the huge ones, but it's just ridiculous when you're having to kill a dozen spiders a day inside your house. I am afraid of spiders and there have been times that I have been almost in tears because the constant barrage was freaking me out so much. I don't know if they nest in the walls here or what, but I will be SO GLAD not to have to deal with it anymore.
1 comments:
Yeesh. The spiders thing would do me in too. I truly appreciate living on the second floor in my building because there have only been maybe three spiders since I've been here, and all small, relatively non-scary ones. I don't even like to kill big spiders. I just want them to spontaneously combust in a little puff of smoke.
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