A couple weeks ago, Monica, Enedina, and I made the drive from the Pueblo up to Greeley (with a quick stop in Niwot) to move Enedina into her new apartment. The day before, Monica and I picked up a 5×8-foot trailer from U-Haul and hitched it to the Chevy Suburban we borrowed from her boss, Bob. On the of the trailer side was a SuperGraphic touting Wapakoneta, Ohio and the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum. I was hoping for a trailer featuring the Dinosaur National Monument decal that depicts a menacing T-Rex, myself. Enedina actually paid for the rental. She can afford it since she’s working for the Greeley School District these days.
Thankfully Enedina doesn’t have a lot of stuff, but she does own a queen-sized memory foam bed which we lugged up three flights of stairs (and yes, that was sight to behold). Since she is a teacher, more than a few boxes of books got hauled up those same stairs. And for a single person moving into a one-bedroom apartment there were, I thought, an inordinate number of boxes marked “kitchen.” But that just might be the stairs talking.
Her apartment is a pleasant little place. It’s laid out nicely, with laminate flooring throughout, it’s has nice appliances in the kitchen, there’s a small balcony, and a decent-sized bedroom. It’s certainly head-and-shoulders above the first apartment I moved into some 30 years ago in Santa Rosa along Sonoma Ave.
As one would suspect, her furnishings are sparse: a desk and chair, a coffee table, that already mentioned bed, and a papasan chair (which strikes me a being the bean bag chair for millennials ). She and Monica did hang some small pictures on the kitchen wall, helping make the place Enedina’s own. She did opt to leave her poster of “Twilight” heartthrob Taylor Lautner behind in Pueblo. An unsurprising choice, given the Team Jacob poster didn’t make the initial trip north when she moved to Greeley to attend the University of Northern Colorado a couple years ago. Enedina, it would seem, has moved on.
Her room here in Pueblo is nearly empty now. The Lautner poster now resides in Pueblo’s Southside landfill. I’ve made some noises about moving my basement office into the vacant space, but Monica’s made some caveats about tidiness that have tempered my enthusiasm. But we really should do something with that room to help fill that void.
Another chick leaves the nest – I remember being both proud and sad when each one left mainly proud because of the effort it took for each young person to launch themselves into the world. Congratulations to Enedina and her parents on reaching this new phase. The story of the move to the new apartment was wonderful