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So tired

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Ok, the desk is put together and I managed to get it into the office with only a little bit of scraping. Living alone sucks sometimes! However, the desk is in its spot and is looking wonderful. I’ve started unpacking office boxes now, but after going through three of them I decided I was exhausted. The futon won’t be delivered until Saturday morning, so I have time to get everything set up. I have so much crap!

My sister bought the futon for me, because she rocks like that. It’s a full-size one, and I got a purple cover for it. Yay, purple!

Yes, I rock

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

The desk is put together - HOO-RAH! And it looks great, sitting there in the middle of my living room. I have to go get showered and ready for futon shopping now. Tomorrow will be moving the old desk and such out of the spare room and moving the new desk in so I can start unpacking. Huzzah!

Yay I can has desk

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

It’s here and the packaging looks ok. Now I’m dying to put it together myself. I might give it a shot. It doesn’t look too huge.

I want my office set up, damnit!

Pictures!

Monday, June 30th, 2008

These are the 129-year old vases that my mother brought to me, along with an antique gold mirror that I was forced to inherit. At first I didn’t like the vases, but they seem to go ok with the mirror, so I’m content.

And here are some pictures of my Noke kitty. She’s taken a turned over black basket and a left-behind moving blanket and turned them into a kitty nest. Eventually I’ll need to put all that stuff away, but for now I’m not messing with her spot.

Middle of the week

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Today was better, attitude-wise. I got a lot of trash taken out, and managed to mail some things out, and spent a couple of hours in the lab helping out a coworker. This afternoon I managed to get the antique bookcase put together and unpacked a couple of boxes of fragile stuff. There’s still a long way to go but it’s starting to come together.

I’m hopeful that the balcony is just about ready to have the railings put up and then they’ll be done. They’ve worked on it steadily for the past two days, which is heartening.

Here’s a list of things that I need to eventually fix/replace/something:

  • master bath toilet wiggles
  • spare bath towel rack is loose on wall
  • spare bath toilet needs to be jiggled after flushing to make the reservoir fill back up
  • garbage disposal doesn’t work very well at all, to the point that I don’t use it
  • kitchen cabinets are terribly small
  • bathroom vanities are short, to the point you have to lean waaayy over to brush your teeth
  • spare room Venetian blinds don’t stay up without being tied
  • That’s really it so far, so really that’s not too bad all things considered.

    And now for a picture of kitties in the sun. This is the spare room where my office is. It gets a lot of sunlight and is very warm, which I don’t like so much but the kitties adore it.