New Home

The movers came yesterday and I am closer to feeling at home in my new apartment. And today my heat was fixed, so hopefully I won't have to force myself out from beneath 14 layers of blankets to get up in the morning (and it only got down to the mid-50s in my apartment without heat the last two nights. I can't imagine what I would have done in a climate that actually gets cold in January).


Here are some pictures of the new apartment as is. It looks like a disaster zone, but I'm hoping that will improve as I unpack.

Living Room

Dining Area (I'm also turning it into an Office Area)

Kitchen

Bedroom

(That whole far wall is a closet. Not bad!)

Bathroom

(Notice the NYC Subway map shower curtain in the mirror - that was a gift when I moved here from JSnoBu and it has set the decor theme in my bathroom since then - it's all framed maps of public transport systems - NYC, LA, DC, the Venice vaporetti [the water buses], and this year I will be able to add London Underground, Paris Metro, Dublin Luas and San Francisco BART maps to my collection!)

The Patio

(Management promised me the gardener will clean up the leaves this week. One thing I've never noticed about CA until coming back after so many months away - it looks like Autumn here now. Most trees still have their leaves, in yellows and oranges, instead of the bare trees back east this time of year. It's like a second Fall!)