Moving Day and My New Roommates

I moved this weekend! My new apartment is bigger, though it's still one room. I moved down a couple floors, so I'm not quite high enough to see over the other buildings, which is a little disappointing. The apartment was really dirty, so I spent most of the weekend cleaning. I'm still not done, but it's livable for now. Besides the extra space, I'm most excited about my two new roommates . . .

ROOMMATE #1: A full-sized refrigerator (with a freezer!)In my old apartment, I had a small dorm-style refrigerator and no freezer. I'm sitting here drinking a glass of ice water as I type. It's the first time in a year and half that I've had ice in my own home. What a novelty! I also have a box in the freezer, so after the ice has frozen in the trays, I can dump the ice cubes into the box and fill the trays up with water again. The result is that now I have a lot of ice in my freezer. I'm very pleased.

ROOMMATE #2: A washing machine!My old apartment didn't have a washing machine, and there wasn't really a place to put one anyway, so for the past year, I've been taking my laundry downstairs to a dry cleaners every week. They wash it for me and then put it in a plastic bag. When I pick it up in the evening, the wet laundry has been in a plastic bag all day, so it's all wrinkled. Now I can do my laundry anytime, and hang it up as soon as the cycle finishes. Wow!

So I'm very pleased with these two new roommates. I have a third roommate that I'm not quite so pleased about--a very big, brown couch. Right now I'm just kind of tolerating it. I'm hoping I'll warm up to it once I've had a chance to wash the cushions and vacuum it. Right now it just seems a little like a health hazard.