Hard to believe, but we have been in New Jersey for 3 weeks now! We have been working hard at getting settled in to our new apartment. We knew we were downsizing moving over here, but didn't imagine it would be this hard to find a place for all of our stuff! We were soooo glad we had professional movers. After some special maneuvers to get our couch in (which takes up about 75% of our family room), and tossing our box spring and desk over our 2nd floor deck, we decided we at least had to buy them lunch for their incredible efforts!
So the past three weeks have consisted of us unpacking, filling every nook and cranny of this apartment, and just trying to get settled in. At this point, I would say we have been pretty successful. Our latest addition was a washer/dryer to the apartment, which both Meara and I are thrilled about! We were originally told that we had a washer/dryer downstairs in a shared space with the other tenants, which is true. But come to find out, the basement is absolutely awful (pretty sure even the spiders have started moving out of there), and our washer/dryer down there were barely functional. When the dryer was running, it screeched so loud I could here in our upstairs apartment, and couldn't imagine how it sounded to our downstairs neighbors. And even worse, it was disrupting my daily SportsCenter updates, which just couldn't be had. So luckily I found out our apartment had the hook-ups ready to go, so a little jimmy-rigging later, and we have the units in our apartment! Needless to say, they haven't stopped running since we got them.
We've started to explore the neighborhood a bit, and dared a bit to get out on the roads, but more on that later!
-Kevin
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