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New Keys in Hand!

Finally the day I have been long planning for has arrived! I am at my new apartment complex, and have my keys in hand!

But I now have to wait.

I arrived about when I said I would (even though my lease started at midnight). I parked my car near my apartment. I need to unload items: all the fragile stuff I did not want jostled around in a moving truck. I walked to my apartment door just to scope out the approach.

Then I heard music from inside. WTF? I grabbed the doorknob and it opened. There were two people inside, still cleaning the apartment. There were dust piles, wet spots, water running.

I said I was moving in today. But I said no rush, you guys do what you need to do. The moving truck is not coming until tomorrow and I plan to spend tonight in my old apartment. But I do want to empty my car sometime today.

I hope this is not a sign of things to come. At least the apartment will be clean! But now I am glad I scheduled the movers for tomorrow. Sheesh.

They have a nice clubhouse. I am on the poolside-patio in a soft chair. I should ask where they got it and buy one! But it is an outdoor chair. I have no patio at my specific apartment. This is at the clubhouse.

I will give them some time, then go check. I hope the floors will be dry enough to put stuff on them. It is all wood.

It is a lovely day. This pool looks so inviting. But I have not yet signed up for it. I need to fill out a form. I don't have my suit with me, anyway. Although there is a Target nearby. I arrived early so went there to get shower curtain rings, soap, and drinks.

The nearby road is loud, though. I had worried about that but when I toured inside it was quiet. And then a loud military helicopter passed overhead. I am not too far from an Air Force base. Oh well. You can't have everything!
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Penny · 46-50, F
hope you like your new apartment :)
Penny · 46-50, F
@JoyfulSilence is it a new town too?
JoyfulSilence · 51-55, M
@Penny

A new town, yet much closer to work. My office moved last year but I did not. I am finally moving just to be closer.

Before, my commute was 30 miles one-way. Now it will only be 16 miles.
Penny · 46-50, F
@JoyfulSilence i love exploring a new town after a move :)
Musicman · 61-69, M
Congratulations on your new apartment. 🥳🥳🥳 You are right. Let them clean today.
JoyfulSilence · 51-55, M
@Musicman

I checked two times in two hours, and by the second check they were gone, but the wood floors were still wet. I cranked up the AC and started unloading my car.

Of course, then it started raining. Light rain. The same thing happened yesterday when I wanted to load my car! I think I am catching a cold! Achoo. At least it is warm. At one point I sat on the stairs to the second floor (since I have no furniture yet) waiting for a heavy band to pass. I watched a bug walk through a puddle to the dryness of where I was and then clean the water off its body.

I am done, and even opened most boxes of kitchen stuff and put it away. Nothing is broken! Not even glass. But most were stuffed in shoeboxes (separated inside with paper towels), and then the shoeboxes were packed tight in the floors of my car, and covered with coats. I drove 45 mph and it was mostly smooth.

Now I am at a restaurant near my new place, that I've never been to before, called Cheddar's. It must be a chain since they say they started in the 70's. But the location is in a new building in a new shopping center so surely it cannot be the only one.

I ordered the fish and chips. OMG, I have a mountain of SEVEN pieces of fish. And corn and coke slaw. I may have to take some fish to go and put them in my new fridge. It already has a bottle of zero sugar juice cooling off on it.
Musicman · 61-69, M
@JoyfulSilence Cheddar's is definitely a chain. We had them in Virginia and we have one here locally in Florida too. How did you like it? Would you go back? I haven't had their fish and chips yet.

I hope you don't get sick. ☹

I will pray that tomorrow goes smoothly for you. ☺

 
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