Ta-Da!

Some of you have been requesting some pictures. Well, I have a small confession to make: I haven't taken many. I will get better at this, I promise. But, we'll start with our temporary apartment. A tour, if you will.

This is the living room, home of the most uncomfortable couches we have ever sat on. They make my buns fall asleep.

Oh, and they are ugly. That brings to mind that old "cheer" from high school: Ahem... U - G - L - Y! You ain't got no alibi, you UGLY!!!

So, apparently, I am in a sassy mood.

Here is another view of the living room - the large windows, which are nice. Notice the drying rack with our laundry on it. See? I am kind of keeping busy. I do laundry for fun now.

Here is our bathroom. Oh, it looks nice. However, we are lucky if the water stays hot in the shower. And the water sort of smells weird...like ramen water. I am hoping that my citrus scented bodywash masks it. You guys would tell me if I smell weird, right? Here is the kitchen. My favorite part is the beautiful curtain with the fake sunflower.
And here is our bedroom. Please pardon the horrific mess. Remember all of those Space Bags I packed in NYC? Well, they all made it here and have managed to spew themselves all over the place. This is what happens when before getting to your destination, you have lived out of your suitcase for 5 weeks and then are supposed to do it for another 5 weeks, but you don't want to.
I need to start going through them and re-organizing things again. We are waiting to hear from our landlord if we can rent this place for an additional week. Our permanent apartment's move-in date has been moved to the 8th. If the landlord says no, we will need to move ALL THIS STUFF to the Hotel Kazakhstan for a week. Not the most convenient of situations, but what are you gonna do?

I am heading out in a few minutes to this place called Palladium, where I have been invited by my boss, Andrew. Some American guy is having a whisky tasting tonight there with other food and drinks. I'm not a whisky drinker, but it'll get me out of the house.

By the way, I woke up at about 5:00 this morning and the power had been out for at least an hour. It stayed off until 4:00 this afternoon. Then, it went out again for about an hour. It's back up again and I'm hoping it stays on for the rest of the night, as I'm not a fan of climbing up and down the 12 flights of unevenly constructed stairs.