mon apartement

If you take the Rue Prinicpale exit off the Trans Can and drive for about 15 minutes you will enter Saint Basile. Mon apartement is one of eight units in a long blue building that at first glance, looks like a run down motel. All the doors face the road, and you can park a car directly in front of the door.

But when you come inside and up the stairs what you see is a very pretty, well maintained and dare I say "girly" little place. Little, but still by far the biggest place I have ever lived in on my own, and definitely the most grown-up apartment of all the (count,count,count) twelve (!) places I have lived in since moving out of the rent's.

It has fresh paint in each of the rooms. One room is lavender, one room robin's egg blue, one room taupe and the bathroom is pure white. It has an antique-ish light fixture in the hallway. It has a little balcony in the back that looks out onto the train tracks and the lush green hills beyond. It's, well, it's pretty romantic I guess! I feel mysterious and solitary sipping wine, reading french newspapers and trying to figure out what the train schedule is.

I also feel like a squatter. I arrived with only a car full of things. More things will be arriving later thanks to a friend with truck, but even then I know I won't have enough to fill this two-bedroom flat. I'm in the front room, which attaches to the kitchen, sitting in the one chair in the whole place and making good use of the one table. Both items were left for me from the previous renter. I sleep on the floor. My unpacking has consisted of taking things out and spreading them around, basically making a big mess. But I have plans for minimalist decor. I don't really want to acquire any more than what is absolutely necessary. I just have to find a creative way to use each room sparingly.

Uhm, I also have plans for pennies on the train tracks. To be made into some kind of a mobile. Maybe I can have a "mobile room."

Oh! and I also have plans for a dark room (eee!) because my bathroom is absolutely ideal for this purpose. So I'm sure as I begin hanging up prints to dry I will be happy for all the empty space. It's all going to work out nicely I believe. I can't wait for you to come visit me!