I’m strangely excited by the fact that we’ll have an Ikea in my city that opens in a couple of days. I didn’t take off opening day because I know that people will have that place packed to the gills so they can shop there, but at the same time, I know I will visit it at least once.
The excitement that comes with a place like this arriving in my area is making me tingle with delight all down my spine. I want to walk around and see what I can afford in there, and what I might set a goal for on Furnish Our Apartment. Since we haven’t done much with Furnish Our Apartment recently, it’d be a nice refresh, so to speak.
Maybe then, I can finally have something not so straight-backed as a dinner table to sit in my living room on.
Since we moved, Steve and I came up with a brilliant idea for a site that I’ve spent the last week getting up and running.
I still need to work on a theme for it, but it’s up and running at least: http://furnishourapartment.com/ - Our site to raise funds for real furniture for our apartment. Feel free to take a look. 
So, here I am, first week in an apartment with one roomie, and I’m enjoying the hell out of it.
I don’t have to wear headphones to listen to my music. I don’t come home to people watching sports and not willing to give up the TV so I can have a little [adult swim] time. I can (wow!) have a beer after work when I’m feeling out of sorts. I can walk into my room and lock the door, if I so choose to be alone. I don’t have to listen to anyone but myself snore (and I don’t snore ), because there’s a wall between my room and Steve’s room.
I don’t have to worry so much about my stuff being stolen, unless someone breaks into the apartment through its front door, which means they broke the deadbolt, too. I can even own a hookah, when the time is right to buy one.
I still need to look into furniture and transportation, though, and in that order, simply because it wouldn’t do to have house guests over and nowhere for them to sit or eat, and I would love to abandon bus during the week in favor of a scooter or car.
I guess that I’m going to have to look into one of the local rent to own / lease purchase stores to see what they offer to people like me, and hope they deliver, too, since I just don’t have any kit to get furniture home and in. I would rather buy it outright, but Steve offered some sage commentary: “Yes, you would obviously rather buy it outright, since it’s cheaper, but for the larger purchases where you need to split the amount over several payments, it’s your only option right now.”
With that said, once Steve gets back, I’ll get up and find the nearest rent to pwn location.
