Holy shit! My sleeping cycle is fucked up! I can only sleep 4 hours continually at the most, then before work I take a 2 hour nap. I feel wore out when I’m awake. I wanted to make this post much sooner, but shit happens.

The old place I was living at was a small studio apartment. It cost $330 a month. I had been living there since September 1999, the rent first started at $285. I moved out of my parents house and dropped out of school and needed to find a place quickly. It was the only place I looked at. It wasn’t very good, but I loved the location because it was close to downtown. The apartment was empty for a long time, because there were a bunch of calcium deposits in the toilet due to it not being flushed.

I grew used to living there and didn’t mind much. The thing that bugged me the most was that the apartment had bed bugs. At first it was infested, but after it was fumigated it got better. Their bites inch like crazy and the worst is they will bite in rows, annoying motherfuckers! The kitchen was small and cramped, I just couldn’t do much.

After, I got my current job I started thinking about my life a lot. I have been too complacent and lazy! I needed a change in my life. I decided to move to a much bigger and better place, and most importantly in a new neighborhood. I’m happy my goal was met!

Here’s pictures of my old place.

My old apartment

From the front

I lived on the top floor

The side by the mailboxes

Thruthe front door

Washing machine in the laundry room

My front door

The end after 3 flights of stairs

View from the back balcony

View from the back balcony

The neighbors

View from the back balcony

Rear of the apartment

Rear of the apartment

The small mini kitchen

Window facing the governor's mansion

The dresser is attached to the wall

Old ass sink in the kitchen

Only 2 of the burners work in the gas stove

Kitchen cabinet

Drawer for utinzels

The toilet!

The tub!

The sink!

Me, Phet!

Smile, you're on candid camera

Front door with metal to stop spread of fire

LR is the girl of my dreams...

Nerf hoop, worth every penny

Closet

Closet

Good bye old friend…

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I got the keys to my apartment on Thursday, August 27th and started moving my shit to the new place the next day. I had asked my brother to help me move, he has a Chevy Tracker (It’s a small SUV). I work overnights (10:45am to 7:00am) and I didn’t want to go to work exhausted. I decided to start moving at around 9am, after I got a little rest from work. I had rested in my new place and walked over to my old place where my shit was.

I called my brother and told him not to eat anything for breakfast. I was going to treat him to pho (I love that shit!) for helping me out. We were both starving and drove to my pho spot, Pho Nguyen. Bad news, it wasn’t open yet! They opened at 10am and I decided to start moving to kill some time. The pho was real good after that first trip. Yummy!

We kept going back and forth from my new and old place about 9 times. We stopped at around 5pm and we were exhausted! The weird thing was that the toughest part of it was just walking up 3 stories to my old place without anything in our arms. We moved all the boxes and most of my belongings that day. I counted 52 boxes total, with 33 being medium to large boxes. I got them from work, I had been collecting them for the past 3 weeks. I would walk home with them after work (No car life is the shits). My friend, John, helped me moved my mattresses before I had to go to work. My brother’s SUV was to small to handle it, not John’s though.

On Saturday, we finished up in about 2 or 3 trips. I treated my brother to pho from another place called Vung Tau. My brother suggested we go to a coffee place called The Meadowlark to play some chess. He kicked my ass pretty bad, and there will be a rematch.

Here are the pictures of the things I moved by Saturday afternoon.

The living room. Look at all those boxes!

Living room, looking into the kitchen.

The bedroom where I will get to work in the future.

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Here’s some pictures. I got off work at 7am on August 28th and walked 3 blocks there. I had gotten the keys to it the day before after I paid my rent for September.

My building is in the middle.

My building in the morning

Door to my building

My wide windows

Courtyard that caught my eyes.

Stepping inside my apartment

Clean, shiny bathroom where I will poop.

Border between livingroom and kitchen

Huge window in the livingroom

Tetris shelf that I love!

Delicious kitchen

Going into the bedroom where the magic happens

Huge bedroom closet

Looking out my bedroom window

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Last year around lated spring and early summer, Lincoln had an unusual large amount of rain. There were some flooding because of it. Holmes Lake was filled with more water than I’ve ever seen it. Some benches and walking paths were flooded.

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Holmes Lake

Flooded bench. Who will sit in it now?

Another flooded bench.

Flooded pier. They had to get wet to fish.

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The soccer field with the same dirt patches from 15 years ago.

My bike in better days in front of the lunchroom.

Basketball court with cotton nets now.

Cooper Park, look at all the green!

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Basketball court facing west towards the soccer field.

Tables in front of the lunch room.

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