Apartment 202

    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.