I like springtime. I like warm weather and the fact that it is now light outside longer. I don't like that I lost an hour of sleep this weekend. Sad day. But I made up for it today by taking a 3 hour nap. Ha! Take that, cruel inventor of daylight savings!

This morning I had an observational experience at Windcrest Alzheimer's Care Center. I think Alzheimer's is such a sad disease. Two of my great-grandmothers had it. Very sad. But today I got to be on the unit with the most functional residents, people who are still pretty much with it, but can no longer live independently. My friend and I spent most of our time there with this really sweet lady named Dorothy who was working a jigsaw puzzle. We helped her finish it, and then talked to her the rest of the time we were there. She showed us her room, where all of the walls were hung with jigsaw puzzles she had put together, glued, and framed. She had about 5 or 6 more unopened puzzles waiting to be done. She said that's pretty much all she does there. I can't imagine being stuck in one place all day with nothing else to do but put together jigsaw puzzles. Especially when you know you'll never be able to live independently again. But she seemed pretty content. She has 2 sons who come visit her every day, so I'm sure that helps. But still, I hope I never have to end up in a situation like that.

So Michelle and I put down the deposit on our apartment on Friday. I'm pretty excited about it. We're going to be living at Timber Ridge Apartments, over on the other side of town. They're pretty nice, but very, very small compared to our current place of residence. I was never aware of how spoiled we are to have this giant house until we started looking at apartments. Holy cow. Oh well. We will be living on the 3rd floor, which means free washer and dryer in the apartment. Yay for that! The only unfortunate part about that is moving in. I'm hoping we will be able to recruit enough manly men to help us get the job done. Who could possibly pass up the opprotunity to lug thousand-pound couches up 3 flights of stairs? It sounds like the opprotunity of a lifetime to me.