FYI: The pictures are all links to a bigger sized picture if you want to see more clearly!

Now I have gotten into my apartment, and have stocked up on this to make the place a little more like home and bit more livable!

Ikea is my friend! It was hilarious trying to cart all that stuff in my place, but I made it eventually.

I’ve been using Velcro type hook things to stick the pictures and stuff to the wall, and I love the blackboard with the key holder that I got!

Here’s a quick tour:

I love my bar stools — an early morning (7am!) find at a garage sale, I think they match perfectly, not bad for $20 each :)

Also, I didn’t want to paint, but it felt a bit dull, so I got some “wall art” to make it a bit more personal:

Shopping in Target was fun too, got a ton of vouchers from the nice folks at work, so went shopping for more stuff! Found the ‘trolley escalators’ so surreal! Clever though!

There’s a few “Only In America” sights too — here’s where you can buy the individual MMs in the colour you want:

And this guy sure loves Melons!

Other than that, I realised why they talk about the “Red Hills
of Georgia”, the clay really is that colour! They’re digging up and building a wall on my route to work and I snapped a photo while stopped waiting for the traffic to clear up.

The other news, in the epic Fio-Tries-To-Get-A-Car-In-America is that I’m still on rentals, but I changed cars again, leading to the wonderful ‘dead battery’ because this one doesn’t beep! It’s a Kia Spectra, and it’s pretty nice other than that!

Now that I have my social security number (memorized but don’t know where is ‘safe’ to keep it!), I can try and get my Georgia Driver’s License, looks like I will need to do a test. I’m not worried but it’s just another thing in the way… you can’t make an appointment, you just have to turn up and wait.

I can’t apply for a car loan until I have the license, and it looks like that’ll be difficult. :( Having no credit history in the US means they most likely will say no, which means I’ll have to think harder! They did offer me a $300 (pre-pay) credit car… which is a bit of a laugh — I showed her my card which had at least 20 times the limit and tried to explain why the $300 one just wouldn’t work for me!

Other than that? It’s been fairly quiet, work is busier than I can keep up with, but still get time to chill out at the weekend, I even found some ducks!