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[spryng]

I was going to rip off malanai and do a day-in-the-life post, but I only got so far as putting together some Ikea furniture and then forgot to take any more photos. So here is the first from that short-lived series, wherein I prove that I do in fact get up at 5am on Saturdays. I believe that was a pot of earl grey creme tea. Shortly after, I put together said furniture, then woke up Lady, then went out to have coffee with my ex-agent friend, Lora. But, alas, she overslept, so I ended up shaming her into helping us paint the bedroom yesterday. Actually, that's a little bit of a lie. I mentioned the painting in the context of hey-maybe-we-should-meet-tomorrow-when-we're-done, and she jumped on the painting. So I totally had her come over and help us paint. It was awesome, albeit a little funny, because of all my friends she is by far the most normal. :)

But yes, Ikea. I should back up a little and cover that, because that was my Friday and it was exciting. So Friday was furlough and I had planned in advance to go with the_verb all the way up to Phoenix and back. And we did. And we found furniture. And then the exciting-est part was trying to get that furniture back. Her bedframe didn't fit in my car, so we ended up putting it on the car. Which was fine and dandy and ratchety, except for the parts where the cardboard came flying off and I freak the hell out because that's what I do. Anyway, so we stopped a bunch and went through the tiers of quality duct-tape to not only keep the cardboard together but from flying off until we made it home without actually losing the bedframe itself. Hoorah!

Then Saturday we got together all of said friends (yay friends! I love you!!) and had veggie dogs and root beer floats and painted the bedroom beige and blue. It looks great. And amazing but paint can do to really make a place feel like yours.

Today was quiet-time. There might have been a three-hour nap of which we shan't speak. But the most exciting bit was getting the office back into order, beginning with this:

Yeah multitude of white frames! I actually stole this from one of the redecorating sites I'd been frequenting, except they used old postcards in lieu of photos. I just selected a photo from each of the places we'd visited together, which turned out to be more than we had frames for. I guess that's what happens when one moves multiple times all the way across the country.

So next weekend will be the hardest part of the project: the living room, with all its awful corners and large furniture. Aah, I'll be so happy when this is done. Hopefully, we won't get sick of the colors in the next four years.

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[holycarp.livejournal.com]

That's a super cute storage idea. Stealing if/when we ever get our own place.

[spryng.livejournal.com]

We got it from a Goodwill, so I have no idea as to its original function and/or vendor. But it does work well enough as a spice rack to possibly have been made as such and it looks like it could hang from the wall as well. My only quip with it is that you can't tell what a spice is unless you pull it out first / have the layout memorized, so labels will be in order (one of these days).