Woke up slow. Put on my robe. Had some tea. Unpacked glasses and dishwear. Started a bin that will be for things to bring home. A couple pans went into it. Ma and Pa called right as I finished showering and came over. I felt I didn't get so much accomplished, but they seemed impressed that I got my shelves up.
First of many little round trips was Trader Joe's for groceries. Got some of my diet essentials. Pasta. Sauce. Toblerone. Apples. Bananas. A cucumber. Picked up an Aloe Vera plant as well because those are good to have around. Unloaded the food at home. Had some chips and dips for snacking. Then we went to William Temple House. WTH is a thrift store that has a greater chance for finding higher end furniture stuff than a Goodwill, but worse chance for clothes (though I did get a nice pair of shoes there). Anyway, lo and behold a bed frame! Head board, foot board, side bars, and the little things that go under box springs to support them! In lovely wood. It was part of a bed, vanity, chest of drawers, and end table set. And it was just $25. For the bed. Not the whole set. The vanity was impressive. People don't seem to have vanities anymore. Less vain? Anyway, we carried the bed parts the four block journey home. Upon assembling the bed, Dad found there were some bolts missing and so we took a trip to Ace Hardware. Picked up some bolts and other things and swung by William Temple House and grabbed the end table before this other group of people could blink (they were eyeing it). The bed was assembled and it looks great! It dominates my room but looks more elegant while doing so.
My room set up right now is as follows: the wall with the door also contains the closet. Entering the room, the wall on the left has the headboard of the bed and the matching end table. Straight ahead is a wall with a gap between the bed and the wall, but in that twoish foot gap is a combination of my smallest cubicle shelf, drawers, and just open shelves. These are shelves that you can assemble in different combinations. Next to this three unit, is my double stacked dark bookshelves. These fold up for nice storage and are sturdy. They also are designed to stack. There is a gap between the shelf and the wall to the right. The wall to the right contains the lone window that looks out into the courtyard. I have a desk positioned parallel to the closet and shelve walls (as opposed to pushed up against one). It is better feng shui to not have your back to a door, desk wise. Further down the wall is my red metal Ikea bookshelf and my chest of drawers. In the nook by my closet and door is another stacking dark wood bookshelf. This one is half the width. It is a cozy room. I think once I get everything squared away, I'll feel really good here.
While mom and dad sorted stuff out, I made a run to Laughing Planet and picked up lunch. Two burritos and a bowl. Dad seemed to really enjoy his Thai inspired burrito. Mom liked her tempeh thing. As always, I enjoyed my burrito. After lunch it was time to run the driving errands. First up was to get my last two things out of storage: my chest of drawers and a low boxy cabinet that I don't know what I'll do with yet. It went quick and took only one elevator trip. Closed out my storage unit and thanked them for their good service. We dropped the stuff off at my place and then headed out again.
Fabric Depot!! We were in 5:30 traffic almost all the way there. I was surprised that mom didn't buy a lot of fabric. She only got a bit of two fabrics. I got some fat quarters and fabric to make curtains (as well as a rod, some clips, a thread sampler, some black and white thread that was on super sale, a rotary cutter, and some pins). It was a nice haul. We then went to Fred Meyer where we purchased the smaller stackable shelves (buy one, get one half off) and some hubcaps for the motorhome, and a laundry basket, and some miscellaneous stuff. They dropped me off at the curb because there was no parking and we parted ways for the night.
I finished off my burrito from lunch. Put away more books. Put away plates and bowls. I also went around and looked at most of my boxes to try and find really obvious "send home" stuff. Right now it looks like a lot of things might end up in the storage unit downstairs. What I'm thinking will happen over the next couple days is that I'll go through everything I packed and if it is something I want up here, I'll set it aside, but if it goes into storage, I'll put it in a box and make a list of which box has what so that if I need to find it, I don't have to dig so hard. I should adopt a more minimalist lifestyle. Really. Books and clothes and art. I have so many knick knacks. Oh well.
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