Moving News, Writing News

We are definitely moving. We found an apartment in a two flat just north of the Lincoln Square neighborhood. We’re excited for several reasons. We will have more room (we are bursting at the seams in our current apartment), there is a great park nearby for the Sohpie dog, it’s quiet enough in terms of traffic for Roscoe the cat to still go out, and we will have a few amenities we’ve done without for the past two years.

Our new apartment has two bedrooms and an office. We will share the bigger bedroom, Nate will get the smaller bedroom to do with as he wishes, and I will use the office. I’m very excited about having my own room with a door. Right now, my “office” is part of our bedroom. This is problematic when I get up early or want to stay up late working. I can’t keep the lights on, or I’ll keep Nate awake. So I have to move around all the time. I have a laptop, which makes this easy, but I can’t ever set up and stay set up. Sometimes I’m in the kitchen, sometimes I’m in the living room. It will be really nice to have a room I can walk to and close the door when I need to get some work done.

For Nate, having his own room will let him have his friends over more frequently. Nate is about twice as social as I am. He often wants to invite a friend over for a movie or whatever, and I often don’t. It doesn’t seem fair for either of us to determine what the other does, so our new apartment should help in that department, too. If he wants to play video games or watch a movie with a friend, they can hang out in his room and I won’t feel obligated to participate. OR I can go to my room and do my own thing and they won’t worry that they’re being too loud or interrupting my reading or writing or whatever. Happiness all around.

As for amenities, we will have laundry and a dishwasher! After two years of trucking our clothes to a laundromat, the washer and dryer will save us ungodly amounts of time and aggravation. We are happy, our current landlord is happy (he lives on the property and is taking our apartment, which is bigger than the one he currently lives in, and renting out his unit), and the only thing we have to worry about now is moving during February, the most balmy month in Chicago weather.

Writing News

As for writing news, I think I’m going to start keeping track of my progress on this site. To keep me honest, in a sense. I hope that writing down my progress for others to see will help my motivation. I’m going to start next week, with weekly updates.