The Apartment

I thought I should write a bit about where I'm living. It's a big apartment for Japan and rent with utilities and cable is $7,000 a month. Thank goodness we don't pay that. I have my own room (in the photo) on the opposite side of the apartment from my parents but the door doesn't shut if I have the sliding glass door open for air which is a pain because the living room is across the hall from me. I've got a pic of my own bathroom but the toilet is not in that bathroom, it is around the corner in another room. My bathroom is actually 2 rooms, one with the sink and cupboards and the other with the tub and shower. The bathtub I have is very very deep but also quite short, so lying in it is a challenge. Then the shower is quite odd because instead of standing in the tub like at home, I stand on the tiled area and there are drains in the floor. There is also a full length mirror which irritates me because I do not want to see myself showering (it fogs up quickly thanfully) and then I have to squigee it every time. We have a small room between the mine and the living room that hosts our wondrous ab lounger, which gathers dust as I write. The living room, also pictured, currently hosts 2 tvs because of our dvd complications. There is a door we can shut between my room and the living room thankfully. The dining room is mostly unused except for gift wrapping and puzzles. The kitchen, as you see, is quite small but functional enough. My parents have their own bathroom with toilet, most unfair. We have a patio area we can use but rarely do because it's not much of a view. At the entryway we have 2 cupboards to put our shoes in, a Japanese habit mom has embraced wholeheartedly. We are on the 5th floor, which is the lowers floor you can live on in this building. Below us is a place that does weddings, a cafe and the two banes of my existence, the health club and the punk rock club. Every morning starting at 11am, the fitness club opens and begins playing their stereo system so we have a constant background noise of bad techno type music. Then starting around 9:30 or so every night after the fitness club has ceased, we get the noise of the punk rock music, so there's pounding of drums and such. Quite annoying when you're trying to fall asleep.