Apartment

We found an apartment! After bouncing around for a few weeks (three addresses in almost as many weeks), we've found a really great place in Copenhagen Northwest, which means it's a little further out than we'd originally planned. But, it has two bedrooms, a living-dining room, a new kitchen, and comes partially furnished. And most of all, it has a bathroom that doesn't feel like you're stepping into the armpit of some previously undiscovered primate that lives entirely in the marshes and bogs of Northern Europe. Our lifestyle priorities have become clear. Living with a slight commute, okay. Living with a bathroom that smells like damp urine, not okay. Surprisingly, given the otherwise comfort-loving ways of the Danes, the ratio of SwampThing-armpit-bathrooms to FussyAmerican-friendly-bathrooms in Copenhagen has proven to be really bad. So here's to clean, lighted, and well-ventilated bathrooms.

We sign the lease tomorrow night, and then start moving in over the next few days. This means going furniture shopping. We're both looking forward to this, though I think Sara is more excited than I am. One of the side-effects of having decided we might not stay in San Diego relatively early after we arrived there is that we never really settled in to our apartment. Not much furniture or art or other homely touches to speak of. Truth is, we've been feeling rootless for over a year, so it will be good to feel like we have a real home again. As an added bonus, we will have an extra room, in case y'all come to visit some time.