Settling in....not settling!

Welcome to chaos, or should I say my life? Ken and I arrived in Spokane, (Liberty Lake actually) on Friday, May 23rd. After a harrowing drive that should have taken 5 and a half hours but really took about 8 due to kitty melt down, we arrived at our new apartment in Liberty Lake Wa., a suburb of Spokane Wa.

Having spent all of about 5 minutes unpacking, although it was actually much longer because we had to unpack two vehicles and carry all the stuff up 3 flights of stairs, I realized why it is I don't like apartment living. Besides the fact that we are on the third floor, and it's not a teeny apartment, we have been perpetually calling it the hotel. Both of us have called it that. It doesn't feel even remotely like a home. It feels blah, bland, like every other place on the block. I like quirky houses. I don't like a cookie cutter.  Apartments are cookie cutter and they suck.

That was 2 days ago and since then we have spent hours in the car touring the area in search of the right house to suit our lifestyle and family. We have certain needs. We need an office. We need a space to do GeekSpeak TV. We need bedrooms for guests. We need room for the boys. We need proximity to Ken's work for commute time. What we'd like is hard wood floors, a nice kitchen for all those gourmet dinners Ken will be making me ;o) a big closet for our clothes and shoes, and at least 2.5 bathrooms.

I don't know how much time I'll have for posting but as we find things, see things, I'm sure pics will go up on flickr and various other sites. We'll keep you posted as best we can. Anyway, we're here.

living room corp apt.