Category Archives: My First Apartment

I might have been living in Roanoke for two months now (hey time, I’d like to see where you go because the way you slip away is magical) but have I shown you much of my new place? Nope. Because I haven’t wrapped up the old place yet here on the ole blog. I shot…

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What is it about moving that makes me all nostalgic and think-y and reflective? Ok, some of those things are how I feel a lot in general, but I can’t tell you how often in March, leading up to my move, I just stood in a room of my apartment gazing at the half packed boxes,…

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I’m coming up on my one year anniversary with my apartment! As of November 7, 2015, I would have made my nest in this sweet little apartment for one year. Look how far we have come together. 🙂 This anniversary also got my thinking about how challenging I found it to find an apartment. A…

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Sometimes it grosses me out when I think about all the other people who have lived in my apartment. I trust it because of the vigorous cleaning required between each tenant by my property management company. However, you still know that many, many people have called this place home. When I moved in I was…

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The warm nights, the bright colored shorts, and the abundance of fresh fruits and veggies has kept me clinging to summer with voracity this year. I just did not want the hot and humid Virginia summer weather to subside in lieu of looming cold weather with all its layers and constrictions. Yet…I may have turned the corner…

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