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I had decided I wouldn't update until I finished moving, or at least the moving out phase of moving, and I finished that last weekend, finally! So hi!
It took 2 months to move out of my efficiency, but another 2 months to sort through and clear out the storage bin--management has taken a couple months to upgrade my old efficiency, so, luckily, no one was moving in who needed the storage bin. Now all my stuff is in one building. It will be several months before everything in here is unpacked and placed, or several months to life, I should say, because, really, us clutter-bug types never finish with that.
But goddess, I love this new place! It's just one building over from where I lived before, but this building is the only one nestled back in the woods, so I have beautiful, glorious, tall, trees out my windows. Now that the leaves are out, the little patch of woods around here really does block out everything else, so visually it's like being out in the country, with the convenience of having a coop supermarket, theater, restaurants, cafe with music, pool and gym, and community center two blocks away. There's traffic sound most of the time, but periods of quiet, with frogs singing on wet nights. And bird song--I've watched chickadees, titmice (they are so loud!), cardinals, nuthatches, finches, thrushes, and woodpeckers, robins, grackles, and sparrows from my windows. I'm on the second floor so I have a true flet-smial. (-:
And I've turned my sun room into a garden paradise/kitty playroom. Well, everywhere is a kitty playroom, but they have a tall climber in here that Moo and Tuxie use especially. If the bedroom and the living room/kitchen were 3 feet wider, this place would be absolute perfection as a me-habitat, but it's damn close enough. I think it's pretty rare to find apartments with sun rooms, and it's what I've always wanted. Pictures will be forthcoming. These garden apartment buildings were built in the 1930's as part of Roosevelt's planned green community projects, and there's about 6 or 7 of them here that have some one bedroom apartments with sun rooms or balconies, but my building is the only one set back in the woods, so I've got one of the couple bestest apartments in the whole town, I do reckon. *nests happily*
And the cats are all happy here, though Milli, my sensitive one, is still adjusting. Saki, my loyalist, surprisingly, was the one to escape the first day we officially moved in here. She ran out the door, into the hallway, and preceded to run UP the stairs to the third floor, rather than down to the outside door. The efficiency in the other building we just moved out of was on the third floor, so it was very clever of her--"Mom, we're on the WRONG floor!" So cute.
Since I learned how to use LJ's scrapbook last fall in trying to find Moo and Tuxie a home, before finding us all a new home, I'm starting to put up pics. I've got a ton of pics that will take a while to get unpacked here. But today I figured I'd introduce you to my eldest kitty, Milli. She's a sweetie. I brought her home from the DC shelter 10 years ago this April--she's around 11 now. She's often an aloof elf princess, but when she wants affection, she wants to be held tight for at least 15 minutes, with her paws stretched out dangling over my shoulder.
Here she's on the back of the love seat in our old place. You can see her amazing tail with red, white, and black rings, and a little red dot at the very end of the black end of her tail.
( M'Lila Tinuviel )
( And more of what all I've been up to )
More picture posts will be following. The next one will feature Saki the Great, iconized above. (-:
It took 2 months to move out of my efficiency, but another 2 months to sort through and clear out the storage bin--management has taken a couple months to upgrade my old efficiency, so, luckily, no one was moving in who needed the storage bin. Now all my stuff is in one building. It will be several months before everything in here is unpacked and placed, or several months to life, I should say, because, really, us clutter-bug types never finish with that.
But goddess, I love this new place! It's just one building over from where I lived before, but this building is the only one nestled back in the woods, so I have beautiful, glorious, tall, trees out my windows. Now that the leaves are out, the little patch of woods around here really does block out everything else, so visually it's like being out in the country, with the convenience of having a coop supermarket, theater, restaurants, cafe with music, pool and gym, and community center two blocks away. There's traffic sound most of the time, but periods of quiet, with frogs singing on wet nights. And bird song--I've watched chickadees, titmice (they are so loud!), cardinals, nuthatches, finches, thrushes, and woodpeckers, robins, grackles, and sparrows from my windows. I'm on the second floor so I have a true flet-smial. (-:
And I've turned my sun room into a garden paradise/kitty playroom. Well, everywhere is a kitty playroom, but they have a tall climber in here that Moo and Tuxie use especially. If the bedroom and the living room/kitchen were 3 feet wider, this place would be absolute perfection as a me-habitat, but it's damn close enough. I think it's pretty rare to find apartments with sun rooms, and it's what I've always wanted. Pictures will be forthcoming. These garden apartment buildings were built in the 1930's as part of Roosevelt's planned green community projects, and there's about 6 or 7 of them here that have some one bedroom apartments with sun rooms or balconies, but my building is the only one set back in the woods, so I've got one of the couple bestest apartments in the whole town, I do reckon. *nests happily*
And the cats are all happy here, though Milli, my sensitive one, is still adjusting. Saki, my loyalist, surprisingly, was the one to escape the first day we officially moved in here. She ran out the door, into the hallway, and preceded to run UP the stairs to the third floor, rather than down to the outside door. The efficiency in the other building we just moved out of was on the third floor, so it was very clever of her--"Mom, we're on the WRONG floor!" So cute.
Since I learned how to use LJ's scrapbook last fall in trying to find Moo and Tuxie a home, before finding us all a new home, I'm starting to put up pics. I've got a ton of pics that will take a while to get unpacked here. But today I figured I'd introduce you to my eldest kitty, Milli. She's a sweetie. I brought her home from the DC shelter 10 years ago this April--she's around 11 now. She's often an aloof elf princess, but when she wants affection, she wants to be held tight for at least 15 minutes, with her paws stretched out dangling over my shoulder.
Here she's on the back of the love seat in our old place. You can see her amazing tail with red, white, and black rings, and a little red dot at the very end of the black end of her tail.
( M'Lila Tinuviel )
( And more of what all I've been up to )
More picture posts will be following. The next one will feature Saki the Great, iconized above. (-:
