It’s been a long weekend (week) but we are getting there.  This place is about livable, however we have no seating!

It cost roughly $4000 to ship our stuff cross-country while we traveled, and looking back on it now, this seems crazy expensive considering it feels like we barely brought anything!

Furniture we don’t have/didn’t bring, and need to get:

  • desk for Earl.  He is being all picky about it and complaining he is “too tall” for the regular (cute) desks I am eyeballing and needs an extra special (ugly) one to accommodate those long limbs.
  • desk for me, I don’t care I will take whatever. Mine is going in the bedroom so it doesn’t really matter what that one looks like anyways… Earl’s office will be right when you walk in in the hall/foyer area, so I’d like it to be at least kind of nice (r).
  • couch!  I’d like to find an actual decent one this time, considering the debacle of a couch I had previously from La-Z Boy.  It was comfortable at first but “died” within a year when all the cushions suddenly went completely soft and floppy.  Was super comfy for naps, but that’s about it!
  • chair?  may not be needed if we get a chaise sectional, but who knows
  • kitchen table… again, we have nowhere to sit!
  • chairs for kitchen table
  • bedframe, as for now, the mattress and boxspring are on the floor
  • TV… this is probably the least important item on the list because I doubt we will be getting cable.  Although DSL is included in our rent, so I don’t even know, does that have cable/TV in it?  lol, I am so out of the loop on that kind of stuff. It would be nice to have a TV to watch movies on something other than our laptops, I guess.
  • while I am making a list of things we need to buy, we also need to get screens/scat pads/contraptions for the windows so that Lucy doesn’t plummet to her death.  We have these gorgeous, huge bay windows that open all over the apartment but they have no screens on them.  Queen Bitchy is already trying to jump up and sit on the windowsills, and she even escaped once and Earl found her on the fire escape.  It’s been a bit of an item of contention for a past two days, particularly when it’s been SO HOT while we’ve been moving stuff around/unpacking and I am dying for a cool breeze..lol.  I am like “let the freaking cat jump out, I don’t care anymore!”  Hopefully screens will be the VERY FIRST item we purchase of this list!!!

In the meantime, I am thinking maybe of just going to Pier 1 or something and getting a bunch of big pillows to sit on.  Once we lay down the rugs it won’t be so bad, either.

Here is the current state of our dining room.  You can see me in the reflection of the mirror, snapping the shot. Look, we are almost done, just a few more boxes! The boxes in the lower foreground on the right are going to Goodwill. I am happy we shipped those items all the way across the country to be donated. :-/

almost there!

almost there!

And Earl, getting some work done in his new “home office”… for the time being:

not looking comfy

not looking comfy