The view from my second story apartment window is not all
that bad. It faces north and overlooks a
neighborhood to the north and to the east across Hilltop Rd. Directly below is the black surface of the
parking lot. My girlfriend and I were
hoping for an apartment that faced south, as there is a wooded drainage area to
the south, but as they say you can’t always get what you want. Toward the west and northwest lies relatively
undeveloped land with a thick forest and gently rolling hills. I have always thought that Nebraska with it
wide open skies has some of the most beautiful sunsets anywhere that I have
ever been and this undeveloped area is very pretty when the sun is going down
in the evening. I have been watching the sunset from this apartment
for a year and a half now since we moved to Lincoln, and although it has taken some getting used to it
much more like home these days.
The apartment itself is rather simple it has two bedrooms of
almost identical size, both rather large for apartment bedrooms. In each room there is also an attached full
bathroom and a large closet which has been stuffed full of clothes, shoes and
miscellaneous crap of course. We have
turned this apartment into our family home.
My girlfriend Abby’s four year old daughter is the resident of the east
bedroom and we slumber in the west bedroom.
Our living room is large as well, it pretty much takes up the rest of
the apartment save for the kitchen and laundry area that is positioned near the
entryway. 
The apartment is full of nick
knacks; a globe sit atop a candle holder, plants shoved into every well-lit
corner of the apartment, a bear carved out of an aspen tree, and three bicycles
are crammed into a corner. Our second
hand furniture does not necessarily match, and is too large for the 950 square
foot abode, but many nights have been spend resting comfortable on the plush
couches. Abby’s daughters Kari’s room is
so pink it almost causes vertigo when you first walk in and our room looks like
a mish-mash of two singe peoples bedrooms combined into one Pictures of our family fill the walls and our
cat can usually be found lounging near one of the windows.
When we first walked into this white-walled hotelish apartment I never
imagined that it would feel as comfortable as it does now. It just goes to show that home really is
wherever your heart is.
