My weekend, in a nutshell…

- 4th of July: M and I were both off work. I woke up around 8:30 AM (because I am CRAZY) and began assembling my bookcase and desk for my office/yarn room. Took the better part of the afternoon, as I assembled my bookcase with a regular screwdriver and my muscles, no power tools for me! (See above, reference CRAZY.) My desk wasn’t as time-consuming to assemble, except toward the end when I needed M’s help. By this time, my fingers were sore and I was over the manual assembly. On the bright side, my bookcase and desk look fantastic! After that, we (meaning mainly M and I kind of helped) assembled my brand-spanking new YARN CABINET! eeee! It kicks major bootay. Seriously. And I know I keep saying it but I promise I will take pictures, as soon as someone (coughMEcough) finds her camera cable and battery charger. They’re packed somewhere, I might even know where!

- 4th of July evening: M and I went over to my parents’ house to eat and somehow stayed to watch their Journey DVD. Because apparently the new lead singer (who replaced Steve Perry) is Filipino so of COURSE he must be good because this is how my parents’ brains work. I just wanted to see the performance of “Faithfully” since I like that super sappy rock ballad, but we ended up watching about 45 minutes of the concert and I went home and to bed with Journey’s greatest hits swirling in my cranium. oh yes, and I almost forgot the part about how my retired parents are going to see Journey in concert next month. !!!

- July 5th: my birthday! I am now 28 years…young! or old! depending on how you look at it, I suppose oh yes, I would also like to mention that I rang in my birthday with a SORE body because as I was assembling the aforementioned bookcase and desk, I was all squatted and crouched on the floor for so long that my legs hurt the rest of that day and all weekend. 28 years old, I’d say! I dragged M to one of my LYSes and bought a skein of birthday sock yarn to add to my collection, hehe. I think it’s called Yummy but I can’t remember who the manufacturer is…pics to follow, see above re: lost/missing camera cable, ahem.

- Also on the 5th: we rented a U-Haul 14′ truck and picked up our sofa, loveseat, and dinette from Value City Furniture. I am very infatuated with our new furniture, especially since M did all the assembly and I just sat on the loveseat and enjoyed the comfy squishiness of it. oh, the cashier at U-Haul was a slight dork, but we still ended up saving money. If we had paid for delivery from VCF, they would have charged us $100, eek! So we rented the U-Haul, brought the stuff into our house ourselves, and ended up saving about $35 in the process. Every bit helps!

- Yesterday: we brought my doggies over to the new house, yay!! We are together again. They are still adjusting to their new environment, but I think they like it so far. They have a designated area of the house–downstairs only, in the kitchen/dining area and backyard, no upstairs and definitely not allowed on our couches!–and I think it’s better to have these boundaries. At my last house, I let them roam wherever they wanted to, and ended up with a very furry house, so I think this is a better arrangement. But I’m just so happy to have them here!

ok, tonight when I go home I am really going to look for my camera cable and post pics–I took some already of the office/yarn room and at least want to post my new and improved, more organized stash…I still need to go back to Target and get another bookcase because the one I bought, which is 6′ tall, is crammed with books and still, I have more. My book stash seeks to rival my yarn stash, clearly.

If I don’t post pics by tomorrow, poke me and bug me till I do it!

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