{"id":13023,"date":"2011-10-01T16:21:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T22:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13023"},"modified":"2016-09-17T18:10:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T15:10:15","slug":"apartment-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/apartment-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Apartment Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still hoping to move into the apartment tomorrow, but there are a ton of things still left to do here at Jody and Gary’s to get Miranda ready for travel! But I have pulled off bigger miracles, so I’m not saying it won’t happen. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Today being the first I needed to put in an appearance at work to collect rent and be present to do move-out reports with tenants. I put in about three hours in the morning, then put up a sign saying I’d be back for an hour or so in the afternoon. At about 11:30 I went upstairs to scrub the hell out of my apartment!<\/p>\n

It only took about an hour and a half to wash every inch of that place. It had been sanitized, but there was still plenty of grit on door trim and light fixtures. I now feel that it is truly clean and ready for me to move in.<\/p>\n

Here are some shots of the apartment empty. I will post shots of it furnished when I get it to that stage!<\/p>\n

I should be getting some furniture from work on Monday. The bed will be going in tomorrow if I manage to get out of here and I have accepted Gary’s offer of a nice cloth recliner and ottoman instead of having work buy me something. I also need to go pick up some plastic drawers for my clothes; work will reimburse me for those.<\/p>\n

The goal is to be comfortable while spending the least amount of money possible since this is very much a temporary abode! I spent $60 today on a shower curtain and floor coverings. There is no way I am stepping foot on that disgusting carpet (yes, it has been cleaned) so I bought a huge thick plastic drop cloth that does the whole apartment ($9) and clear plastic runners for creating foot paths ($40). Not the prettiest solution, but it’ll work and, best of all, it was cheap!<\/p>\n

The loft curtains are going to be perfect to cover the patio door and the window, so I don’t have to worry about window coverings.<\/p>\n

I won’t pretend that I’m particularly enthusiastic or excited about moving, but I have accepted that this is what needs to happen. I also keep telling myself that this is temporary and I will be back in my cozy motorhome soon enough.<\/p>\n

Well, back to work I go. Thankfully, I have awesome friends who think about me, so Gary is making me supper. :::awwwwwww:::<\/p>\n

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front hallway<\/p><\/div>\n

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the tiny dysfunctional kitchen \ud83d\ude41<\/p><\/div>\n

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more of the tiny, dysfunctional kitchen \ud83d\ude41<\/p><\/div>\n

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HUGE storage room off the bathroom<\/p><\/div>\n

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one side of the huge storage room<\/p><\/div>\n

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I’m still hoping to move into the apartment tomorrow, but there are a ton of things still left to do here at Jody and Gary’s to get Miranda ready for travel! But I have pulled off bigger miracles, so I’m not saying it won’t happen. \ud83d\ude42 Today being the first I needed to put in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,6,1226,635,5,3,8],"tags":[853],"class_list":["post-13023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-work","tag-accommodation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}