Our Digs

Here is the promised video.  MY Ipad only let me pick 54 seconds of it to send, so hopefully I chose a good 54 seconds...

And I took some more pictures of our apartment!  Troy is napping, and I had last night off.  Oh it is SO nice to be awake..!  :)  To start, here is our bedroom - I like the tall ceilings,

(that's Dusty harvesting our herbs in the corner)

and loft! and a wardrobe off our bedroom,

Bathroom, (not that special, but I really like the alphabet shower curtain holders we found at Goodwill)

Kitchen,

Troy's room,

And here is Troy napping :)  Although, he since has woken up and is now reading "the Grouchy Ladybug".  He's so smart.  Oh wait, now he's climbing all over me..using my hair as leverage...

                                      

Living room:

different view...

And that is our apartment!  Hope you enjoyed your virtual tour :)

living the life

We moved again, people!  This time, just across town :).  We moved to an apartment right in Hilo, which feels a

bout 20 times better than where wee were living before.  Not that it was bad, it was just far away from everything.  And down and awful dirt road that made Troy scream every time we drove down it, which was kind of making me never want to leave home.  Not good.  Here, we are 5 minutes to the beach, 5 minutes to surfing, 5 minutes to church, and 5 minutes to work.  Location location location!  We still have only one bedroom, but Troy has been sleeping in the living room/kitchen, which works out pretty well.  He doesn't wake up a million times per night and I don't snack at night as much for fear of waking him up, it's a win-win situation!  I only have a couple pictures...I would take more right now but 1, it's dark anyway and 2, Troy-man is sleeping.  So here they are: 

I love our little nook!  It's built in, so we didn't have to buy a table.  You can't really see it, but Troy's pack n' play is just to the right.

And this is driving me crazy...this bench (also built in) didn't come with any cushions or anything on it, so we got this futon mattress at a yard sale and just kind of threw it on to have a place to sit.  It's so ugly!!  As soon as I get a sewing machine, there is a huge fabric warehouse in Hilo (it's like heaven), and I'll be making a visit.  I have more expensive ideas for it, but...well they are more expensive.  So I'm thinking I'm going to convert that futon mattress into cushions that will cover the entire bench, then make some big pillows that we can lean against, like the kind of big pillows on the backs of some couches...it'll be better.  But then again, we still don't actually know how long w e are going to be living here, in hawaii, so is it worth all that work if we just leave in January??  I don't know.  I guess it all depends on whether or not I can find a sewing machine on Craigslist, really!  

We also have an herb garden in our bedroom window, and a loft with a mattress in it!  Come visit us! 

Anyways, that is so much rambling!  In other news, I got that job that I interviewed for :).  It's at a state veterans nursing home.   It's good and bad - definitely good that we have some income, but I miss being with Troy!  I'm on nights right now, so my shift is 10pm to 6:30am.  I thought would be the best schedule with Troy, but it turns out I have to sleep sometime, too...and so my sleeping usually happens from about 8am to 1 or 2ish, then I'm super tired the rest of the day because I'm not really one of those people who require less sleep than the average person, so I go back to sleep as soon as Troy does, at 7:30, and sleep for about 1.5hrs.  It's driving me crazy.  But hopefully.....they can get me on the day shift soon, that way at least when I'm home I won't feel dead!  Dusty is still job hunting, but now applying to some teaching certificate programs to teach high school.  We both feel really good about this, and I think good things are to come :).  

Here's a treat- sorry you'll have to ignore my annoying laugh!  It's so loud because I'm holding the camera (obviously), I don't think it's always that loud.  Lately, Troy thinks that everything Dusty does is hilarious, and he repeats it back to him.  It's so funny!  And except i can't figure out how to post a video from this app right now and I keep nodding off...I will post it tomorrow, I promise!  

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