Parkside

Mr. Original Beard and I have lived in our Apartment, The Parkside 205, for about two and a half years. Even with a discount, it's a little on the pricey side, but it's less than a mile from work and it's absolutely beautiful.

It was designed by Cass "I designed the Minnesota State Capitol" Gilbert and built in 1886. Featuring 14-ft. exposed-wood ceilings and enormous arched-windows overlooking Mears park.
Our two-bed two-bath unit sits on top of a couple small office-spaces and next to/under, for a large portion of our time here, vacant units. No noisy or annoyed neighbors to worry about for the most part.
Why would I ever move from here into a rotten-floored, smelly old house?

There's really only one answer for that...it's just time.

I'm spending the night back at the Parkside for the first time in about a week and apparently we did get some new neighbors above us, and they do like really loud music at 2 in the morning, holy jeeze. They seem to be playing their alt-rock 90's playlist, it's borderline right-up-my-alley, but they seem to also be A.D.D. cause they can't let a single song play through it's entirety.

N.Q.Xanadu (the house) is on it's own this weekend while this guy crashes here at the Parkside so I can work my doubles this weekend to pay for all this stuff that's going on. I did Prune some trees in the backyard this morning before work, in case anyone is wondering what they're missing at the homestead. Exciting stuff.

I'm going to try and organize all the pictures I've been taking to make updating this blog a little easier on me, I keep kicking myself for missing photo opportunities of all the exciting stuff, like tree-pruning and cabinet lifting. What a video those could've made!

Seriously though, that is pretty much the premise of this blog, so get over it.

Peace out.

Here's a random picture of me pretending to spin the paddlewheel at work like I'm on The Price Is Right: