..........................John and I always say we have scattered lives, living back and forth between Knoxville and Nashville, and this summer we even spent most of our time in Jackson with John's dad. But coming back to Knoxville in August gave even more meaning to our "scattered lives". We hadn't lived in the apartment since last May, but we were crossing our fingers that everything would be okay - it wasn't :( There had been a leak in the apartment above us, and our bathroom ceiling had caved in. There is no telling how long it had been like that, but our apartment was disgusting!! There was mold everywhere (which really freaked John out) and the apartment was in no way livable. Our landlord didn't think it would be too much of a problem to fix, so he put us up in a hotel for 3 nights, I have never wanted to get out of a hotel so bad!! Not only did we have stuff in Nashville, in Knoxville (at our old disgusting apartment), but we now had tons of stuff in our cars, and we were living out of suitcases in the Hilton. We finally found out we were going to need to move, so thank God John found us an apartment just across the street. We had one day before classes started to move our entire apartment. Thankfully our WONDERFUL friend Julian came to the rescue!! He and John moved everything while I put stuff in boxes and unpacked the boxes at our new apartment. It took quite a few hours (many more than John anticipated), but we did it. It truthfully worked out for the better, our new apartment is much nicer, but it was a pain when all of this was going on. In case you were wondering, not too much stuff got ruined. And everything was replaceable, EXCEPT for the lovely piece of artwork Sina made me for graduation. For those of you who know me (which is hopefully everyone reading this blog), Sina has been my best friend since 1st grade (I think that will be another post in itself). Anyway, she made me this little table chest for high school graduation and put pictures and quotes over the whole thing. It was great. I loved it. However, the mold and water did not spare the table, and it had to be thrown out :( I was, however, able to save the back piece of the chest which was a note from Sina, I was happy to just have that.
