You know it's time to move when....

So Dave & I have been living in our wonderful apartment since the end of January and it's going so-so.  The apartment itself is not anything special, it is considered a "two bedroom" because the second room has a closet (although that has been transformed into a kitchen pantry) and it is incredibly small.  We have a living room, a kitchen, master bedroom and a bathroom- no dining area so we have a tiny bistro table in our living room that we attempt to eat on.  The complex does have a really nice pool that I took advantage of all summer and they have provided every apartment with one air conditioner. We are allowed to put another one in the bedroom(s)-- we have gone through 3 air conditioners in our bedroom this summer! Thankfully the first two came free of charge from my parents bu they only lasted a few weeks, we sucked it up and bought the third one from Target only for it to stop working on LOW after a week or so. We can run the a/c on MED or HIGH but not low! So our room is always very cold.  But the saving grace for our a/c problems is that today is the first day of Fall--though one would not know that since today's high was 85 and tomorrow it is supposed to reach 90! Yes friends we do live in New Jersey now NOT Orlando!

Okay, so our apartment isn't amazing--everyone should live a crappy place for awhile but the actual apartment is not really the problem so much as the surrounding apartments.  Let's start with the most annoying problem--faulty smoke detectors.  One of the apartments behind us has a smoke detector that is constantly beeping because it needs new batteries--come on now people! Call the office and ask them to replace the batteries. If we can hear YOUR smoke detector in our apartment you must be dying of the sound! I have tried to figure out which apartment it is coming from but have not been able to pin point it down yet--my goal is to figure out which apartment number and call as that apartment renter to ask for the batteries to be replaced. So far I've failed at this goal.

First dinner 

Second problem with our apartment complex--our awesome neighbors across the way from us.  Our sliding doors from our living room open up to another apartments sliding doors to their living room. Not close enough to see all but close enough to hear their TV when its loud-- OR when they are screaming at each other for over an hour.  They are a young, newly married couple who scream daily for at an hour and 1/2 about how they should not have gotten married, who they text on the iPhone's, who they chat with on Facebook and how much of an a$$hole he is to her.  When I say loud, I mean we can each and every word perfectly! We can hear it so well that we had to turn on our a/c AND the TV on the weekend and we could still hear them yelling! If you are yelling now and have just gotten married, it's going to be a long rough ahead.


And, lastly this morning we woke up to no hot water. Do you know how wonderful it feels to wash your face at 6:15 in the morning with ICE COLD water? Yeah not so much. Dave did brave it and attempted to take a shower--me I decided it was not worth the icicles that were going to form to shower and went to work dirty. Don't worry I brought my deodorant along with me and used it frequently throughout the day.



So all in all, the house hunting is back and we are ready to move NOW!