onward and upward

If you were really quick yesterday you saw that I had another small list at the bottom of the post of things I won't miss about the duplex apartment. After a few minutes consideration I decided to remove it as I wanted yesterday's post to be all about the good things and memories of that home. However, there are a few things I won't miss about the place, and there are quite a few things I am looking forward to in our new house. I'm going to list them below just so you don't think David is forcing me out of our perfect little home:

**This list should be read with something along the lines of this playing in the background.

- hauling groceries up to the second floor.

- hearing our tenants through the floors.

- having to check if our tenants are outside before letting the dogs out.

- the ruckus from the corner behind our house.

- the trash that would build up on the sidewalk (though we will still have to come pick it  up, at least we won't have to see it constantly).

- having to go into the tenants' apartment if we blew a fuse (which thankfully only happened twice, and once while work was being done in the basement anyways).

- feeling the need to tip-toe around the house, not wanting to walk in heels, or feeling bad if I dropped something so we wouldn't be too noisy for our tenants.

- worrying about the dogs barking during the day.


To round out this house-list making here's the list that really counts, the one that makes the mountain of work we have to do to get the new house ready and our current apartment ready to rent out, what I am looking forward to most in the new house:

- having a whole house to ourselves, and a yard.

- having a garage, which means not having to leave 5-10 minutes early for work in the winter to brush my car off as well as having an accessible space to store all our outdoor equipment, tools, etc (the shed wasn't really cutting it).

- the built in china cabinet. I think I've been pretty obvious about this one, but it's so pretty and now my wedding china can have a place to live where I can actually easily get at it to use it on occasion.

 - having 3 whole bedrooms. We don't really need 3 bedrooms, but having a guest bedroom/ office combo wasn't really working (and most of that problem was not enough storage room in our current place). It will be nice to always have a room ready for overnight guests and always have a desk that is cleared off for the computer, in separate rooms.

- having enough storage space. No more emptying lots of boxes out of the attic crawl space to get at a box near the back, now I'll just be able to walk downstairs and grab the Christmas decorations.

- being on a quieter block. We went out in the backyard at the new place last weekend around 6pm, it was eerily quiet (again, for city standards), and it was nice.

- central air, no explanation needed.

-getting to really paint and decorate how I want. I could have done this at the old place, and I did paint the closet teal and I didn't worry about how many nail holes I was putting in the wall or where, but that was about it. I didn't want to go overboard without knowing how long we were going to be there, and now I am glad I didn't as we will have only lived there a little less than 1.5 years when all is said and done. This place though we will certainly be living in for longer so I am going to paint each room the color I want and not worry about when we have to repaint it because that will be years down the road. No more all-beige house!