Celebration: Settling In

When we moved to D.C. I didn’t have work or school, and I with all that glorious though not well enough appreciated time on my hands I unpacked pretty quickly. It took a little longer to get the apartment feeling like our own space, but I don’t remember boxes lying around with our belongings spreading across the floor, waiting for furniture on/in which to place them.

Moving to Las Vegas, not only did it take us a while to find a place to live, but though we’ve been living here nearly four weeks now, we still can’t unpack completely because we simply don’t have the appropriate furnishings. The first few days in the apartment all we had was a computer desk and two dining chairs. Our dinner nook reminded me of a modern art installment piece:

I complain a lot about being in limbo; most the time I don’t like it. But one of those first nights when we sat on the floor in our living room, gorging ourselves on pizza and watching TV on the internet, I couldn’t help loving the camping-out feeling. That is, until my back started aching from the lack of support a couch might have provided.

After a few weeks of accumulating this and that it’s starting to feel like a real home here. As of today our furniture capital consists of the following:

One extremely comfortable and handsomely chocolatey brown couch

One shiny (sometimes) glass-topped table

Two office chairs - one comfortable, one not

Two dining chairs that will wiggle and creak a bit if you move around too much while sitting in them

Two patio chairs sometimes used at the dinner table

One slightly beat up computer desk

Two well-used medium-sized cabinets

Three stalwart bookcases

One matching, brand new cabinet that looks much better than it’s differently colored cabinetry cousins mentioned above.

One refurbished-by-Jordan bed side table (see pictures on the Jordan and Rose blog soon)

We still have yet to get a bed frame or a dresser among other things, and we need to put our art up on the walls so it feels like our space, but we’re getting there and it makes me happy. And feeling more settled means I can come out of my hermity phase and say hello to the outside world again. Hello, outside world. Please read my blog. I promise to read yours.