Since November is the month where we remember things we are grateful for, I thought I would share some things about our current apartment that I am grateful for. Or, rather, I will share some things about our old apartment in student housing at BYU that we no longer have to deal with. To be fair, we lived there for 3+ years and had many fond memories take place there. However, Alan and I periodically mention these drawbacks about our old apt. to each other so that we can be more appreciative of what we have. I'm sure some of our friends from school who also lived in Wymount will appreciate this post.
Remember when...
1. we
had to share a bedroom with Jared because there was only ONE bedroom?
2. we had to wash all of our dishes by hand because there was no dishwasher?
3. we had to trek through the snow to our laundry facility whenever we wanted to do our laundry?
4. we had NO counter in the bathroom?
5. we had to re-roll our toilet paper every morning because our furnace vent would unravel it every night?
6. the bathroom was HOT and the rest of the apartment was freezing (during winter)?
7. we had to turn the volume on the TV up and then down again every time our furnace kicked on?
8. we could hear EVERY conversation our neighbors had if they were standing in their bathroom?
9. our disposal would spit up leftover fish guts from our next-door neighbors' apartment into our sink? (our neighbors ate some interesting foods and our disposals were all connected)
10. we had no room for items of furniture like a piano, crib, changing table, desk, coffee table, etc?
11. our kitchen table was actually a tiny desk? (thanks for the long-term loan, Mimi!)
12. we had to park far away if some annoying visitor parked in our NUMBERED parking spot? (not one of our visitors--someone else's)
13. we had Crest toothpaste-blue countertops, complete with gold flecks?
14. we had NO room to walk around after we got all of our baby paraphernelia?
15. we had cinderblock walls?
16. we couldn't use our gas stovetop if our oven was turned on? (we probably should have had maintanence look at that one...)
17. we lived in about 450 square feet? (the square footage listing on the student housing website included our semi-large patio--um, yeah, like that should count!! Also, we did NOT have the large storage closet since we were on the first floor.)
Aaahh, home sweet home. I think I will kiss everything in my current apartment.
In addition, we made one of our favorite Christmas treats: chocolate-covered peppermint Ritz crackers. Seriously, they are delicious! You can find the recipe here. (We actually used chocolate chips with a little oil added instead of the Baker's chocolate, and we didn't add any peppermint extract because we didn't have any. But they are still delicious!)
