kim schmidt

We like our apartment – we really do. But sometimes it just sucks. Like getting locked out due to faulty key errors. Or when they decide to inconvenience us with exterior building repairs. It all started a few weeks ago when we noticed they were “demolishing” all the rock on the exterior of another building. Low in below we get the lovely notice below that they will be moving to our apartment building. Guess what? It started yesterday and began again this morning at 8am on our building. Now that wouldn’t normally bother me, but I have been feeling a little under the weather and had the day off today, so I was excited to get to sleep in a little. HA! Who was I kidding. And it didn’t help when waking up with a pressure headache. Anthony talked with the office today and they told him they were required to do this (whatever it be) from the township. These apartments are 3-4 years old depending on the building – I can’t believe this wasn’t addressed when they were building them. It really sucks for us (and those who have small children that nap during the day). Here is a little of the demo. They will be removing the wood and going all the way down to the insulation. Like I said, we aren’t even sure what they are doing, but it just seems really unnecessary.

Taken from our balcony – day 1.

Thank you for your understanding – Management!

I had meant to write this post on Thursday or Friday but time got away from me. All these pictures were on the external hard drive in our bedroom and I just never got to it. Unfortunately our team didn’t win this weekend but it doesn’t hurt to look back at the 6 years we’ve been together.

Anthony and I met down in Dallas, TX during the OU/TX football game in 2002. It was by chance that we were introduced by mutual friends. I had a broken foot, was in a boot, and made fun of it a lot. Thankfully Anthony (or should I say Andrew as I thought his name was) thought it was cute and funny as well.

This picture is us in the hotel room (room #2 since the first lost air conditioning) in 2002. I was already head over heels in love with him. 😛 (excuse the poor quality – its a scan!)

2003 – sophomore year at the actual game in the upper deck.

2004 – senior year

2005 – we flew back to go. Looking back at this picture – man we looked like crap! (and very pale!)

Looking at all these, somehow I’m always on his left – weird!

We don’t have pictures of 2006 through now because we didn’t go or celebrate much but imagine us in our Sooner gear in Nashville and Princeton.

Thanks for looking back with me!

Wednesday I went to the Jersey shore with a friend I met here, Amy. She just moved to Lawrenceville with her husband from California. He is teaching high schoolers at a boarding school. It was a nice break and who doesn’t love sitting on the beach enjoying the sound of crashing waves, crazy birds flying overhead, and a beautiful breeze? I only took these two pictures because I really was enjoying myself. The first one makes me chuckle – I mean who has the time to go for hours on the shore to treasure hunt? He had all the equipment you’d need – its an investment for sure.

Anthony and I went to see the Yankees play the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday evening. My parents were talking one evening how we should go see them play in the stadium before they demolish it. So I bought us bleacher tickets (which was a rip-off to say the least!). The game started at 7:05 – we needed to be on the train out of Princeton Junction by 4:50ish. Anthony didn’t get home from his class until 5 so we are making a mad-dash to get to the station (thankfully it’s ride mass transit for free week for students so we didn’t have to buy tickets). We arrive, our train is running 10 minutes late, and then it takes 1 1/2 hours to get to Penn Station. We then hop on the subway at 34th & Herald and its another 30 minutes to get to the Bronx. We got there around 7:45, grabbed some hot dogs and enjoyed about 4 innings of the game. We aren’t huge baseball fans, but it was cool to be at one of the last games of the year there. There were 5 games left (after tonight it will be 3) and everyone had their cameras out. Flashes galore were going off – especially when the big players were up to bat. It was pretty humorous. I brought my point and shoot and I was limited on battery life so we only got a handful of pictures. Here’s a collage of a few of them.