Downtown Deluxe

I first have to say that we are grateful to be in a place that doesn't cost $3,000 a month and that is so close to downtown. It seriously takes me 10 minutes to drive Zeb to work. That is worth everything right there.

Now, that aside there are some things that aren't so fantastic about our place in the "seedy" part of Dallas (as someone at Zeb's firm put it).

Here they are to name a few:

1. Aaah the smell of cigarettes.  Non smoking my eye. We have spent who knows how much money on air fresheners. They do help with the lingering smell, however, we just ran out so we are smelling it stronger now. So when we you see us again and there is a hint of cigarettes on our clothes...know that we didn't pick up any habits but that it hasn't washed out of our clothes just yet!

2. Stale air. We have the air conditioning unit running around the clock to help with the smoke smell. It is much worse if the air is off. Because it runs all day that means our room is moist and stale. Audrey had spilled something on a shirt and instead of letting it dry first I threw it in the basket. Oops. We soon found out while I was doing laundry that it grew mold. Yum.

3. Black feet. The carpet here feels so gross. After the girls played for a few hours when we first got here I looked at their feet. It looked as if they had walked around Walmart with their shoes off. Sweet. Doesn't that just make you want to take a bath? We ended up buying a huge (8 ft by 10 ft) area rug for the living room. That has made it way better. 

4. The cat lady. We have a lady next to us that is on the end. Being on the end she has a corner that no one else goes by directly. She has filled the entire end with cat food, cats, crates, toys and more. Now I will admit that the cats make for some squeals of delight on Audrey's part but it is hard to see all the crap this lady has on a daily basis. On one occasion we had the opportunity to see the lady herself one morning. 

After we walked past Zeb said, "Did you see that?" 

I said, "No, What?" 

"That lady wasn't wearing a bra. Her breast was hanging out the side of her tank top."

I replied, "Oh I guess I thought that was her shoulder."  

Isn't that classy?

You know, what fun would it be if we didn't have stories to tell? Boring, that's what it would be. It makes living it so much better.