My unit is above the one with all of the plants on the terrace; that's the unit I first saw. I also met the lady who lives there a day or so later -- she's very nice, as has been everyone I've ever met there. Oh, there's been a few "bad apples", but they're never around very long.
Here's one showing all three levels; as you can see the second floor is kind of low -- it's situated at a level that's essentially between floors 1 and 2 of the other building, making it low enough to make me somewhat worried about leaving my terrace doors open all the time -- so when they told me they had a third floor apartment, I was glad for that. My bedroom is the door on the right; living room the one on the left.
I like the fact that I have the trees right in front of my terrace. Yes, it'll be rather leafy in the Fall when they start dropping, but it'll be shadier in the summer, and it's more private. I like the fact, too, that my unit sticks out farther than the ones to the right. The view is really nice as it looks out and over the car ports, and down to the swimming pool. And I can still see Linda's beautiful garden across the way.
(Hmm...Just thought of something. Maybe I ought to look into getting one of those emergency ladders. I thought about it off and on over the years, but the 2nd floor wasn't too high that if I couldn't have climbed out a window, dangled, then dropped. The third floor's too high for that and it's concrete below now, rather than soft, shady ground....)
I ran into my neighbor who lives across the hall and over one unit [insert "is he okay?" joke, here -- ba dum bum chhhhhhhhhh...), and he's going to be moving into the unit directly across from me; he's been in these apartments for around 12 or so years. There's actually a lot of "long timers" there. The previous managers were at the apartments for 20 years when they retired. To me, that says a lot about the company that's owned the complex for at least as long.
And with the upgrade of amenities, so must I upgrade my cleaning products. For years, I've relied on Mr. Clean and water in an old Windex bottle to clean my counters and bathrooms and floors, but I must now relegate him to just floors; you can't use that kind of thing on granite or stainless steel. Granite is too porous, and such solutions strip the sealer off, and it streaks on stainless steel.
I looked for Johnson's Wax at Fred Meyer today, but I couldn't find it; I did find, however, a product designed for daily use to clean granite countertops as well as a sealer to use every once in awhile -- I also found a stainless steel cleaner; I mention this as it was a total of $48 in new cleaning products. OY!
Well, so -- I did double up on the daily cleaner and stainless steel foaming cleaner as they were on sale, and also got a loaf of bread and some butter...but maybe I'll just have to be less anal about cleaning my house!
I also took in my curtains (old ones) to be cleaned -- $45! Aiee! But at least this way they'll be all purdy and fresh for my new place. I go to a cleaner up the road from my office that's all "green" and environmentally-oriented. Your things come back smelling like the outdoors, not dry cleaners. So it's a tad more expensive, but worth it.
I hand washed my sheers and my gray cotton curtains that had been hanging in my bedroom this past weekend, and that was rather...um...enlightening. I'm a fairly tidy and clean person, but it took three washings in my tub to get the sheer swag and curtains to stop making the water gray, and it took four washings before the gray cotton curtains stopped making the water look like iced tea. Ew! I know I've washed all of those things at least once or twice since I moved in, and I've occasionally vacuumed them...but that was gross. I think I may have to make it a point to get my curtains cleaned more often.
So the big move happens next weekend; it's kind of odd / sad to realize that this is the last weekend I'll be here in the old unit. I guess I can always wave at it and say hello from my new unit...!
-- H
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