our apartment

Here is our "Home Sweet Home" for the next 4 months.--all 520 square feet!!! How ironic that Stan and I are living in a small apartment with donated furnishings and our son is living in our house and our daughter is living in a new house. They have easy access to a washer and dryer and now I have to haul all our laundry to a laundry room (and hope there is a machine available).Josh and Noelle have cars to get them where they need to go---I am negotiating the bus/shuttle/UT police/taxi system and walking. We are very lucky that we have a furnished apartment--a funny thing though---there were only 2 coffee mugs in the cupboard---at home, we use more coffee mugs everyday, than any other dish.(I did buy 2 more!) It is also very different to get used to sounds in an apartment---water running, vacuum cleaners going, doors opening and closing that have nothing to do with you.Smells are also very evident in the hallways and an skew your ideas of what you want to eat (or what you don't want to eat) You cannot just "run out" to get your mail or put in a load of wash or pick up a few things at the store----you have to plan more---well it is an adjustment,but I'll get used to it I am sure.