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All Moved In!

Okay, so we are all moved in. The move was far less painful than I thought it was going to be. There was some stress over doing our move on two different days. :0]

We moved all of Matt's stuff over on Saturday. We ended up having to put it in the foyer AND on the porch. There was no way the organ was going to make it inside.

Saturday Done.

Sunday-we wake up at 5:30AM and start bringing boxes down to the street. I have a LOT of boxes; 95% of the move was boxes. It took 2 hours to get most of them down plus all of the shelves. We left the boxes of books and heavy dresser for the movers.

Things are Coming Together

After a bit of a scare with movers and move dates etc-etc-we got it all under control. thanks to Matt making all of the calls and stuff.

He also thought of the brilliant idea of making the music room into a rec room. This way we have a place to kick back and watch movies or play vidja games and stuff. The actual livingroom will be for reading or playing Scrabble and all that...Guests.



Art Room

Metal Shelving Unit and 2 rolling metal carts (maybe just one?)
Red table and some chairs


Rec Room

Futon
Red Velvet chair?
Organ!
3 Shelving Unit Set for TV, Computer and games etc.
Bean Bag!

ok. now i am getting stressed

irk. there are too many things to think about...i need to make another list-it will be the same list i wrote out one month ago i am sure. and a few things will be done. but the rest will sit there like christmas bread that was over cooked and left out to dry and harden.

1. call telus and cancel services (sara)
2. call shaw and transfer services (matt)
2. call landlords find out about moving time
3. call movers to see if they can move us later or earlier or whenever makes sense
4. finsish packing
5. clean apartment (weekend of move: july 31)

More Stuff

Well, we got a really nice pine armoir (I have always wanted an armoir) and desk with shelf on top--these will look great. the desk will probably go in the den or the music room. and the armoir in the bathroom. we also got a rather large wardrobe thingy from IKEA--that has fabric covering it--it is see through-think we should get a thicker fabric that will hide the clothes and add some colour to the room.

so- we are moving. crazy.

music room/art room -a different approach

i was thinking and well, Matt was wondering about the computer being in the guest room--good point. and i was wondering about the concert posters--and that pink wall. maybe he should have the smaller room for the computer and music stuff and the concert posters (framed). and i should use the guest room for the art room. i can put the art books there a table and the futon--should be fine. it is bigger-more room for making a mess and doing yoga. of course i will put a nice looking plastic sheet on the floor if i am doing messy stuff or use the garage even. and i can put framed stuff on the wall--the picture of the feet that my stepmom did and the steve keen paining or whoever he is --the la artist. blah. i am going back to bed now.

Reorganizing

Top Floor

Master Bedroom
Balcony

Den
Desk
Computer
Filing cabinet
Tea kettle
Tea cups
Tea
Tray

2nd Floor

Closet & Laundry area

Bedroom 1 (bigger bedroom)
Balcony

Futon
Organ
Accordion
Guitar
Egg shakers
Guitar stand - need
Computer
Desk
Office chair
Bedroom 2

Balcony

Red table
Chair
Metal shelf
Yoga mat
Arts & Crafts stuff
Art/Paper shelf thing


Main floor

Kitchen
New dishes
New cutlery

Living Room

IKEA sofa ($336)

Coffee table

3 piece bookshelves

TV / X-Box / Receiver / Speakers

Armchair (?)
Reading Lamp

Dining area
Chairs

Foyer
Hat rack
Shoe rack
Patio

Garage

more thoughts on the place

The stove is GAS!! I don't know whether to scream or laugh. Actually I prefer cooking with gas because the food tends to taste better. The house is very new so there shouldn't be any safety issues-I will talk to the landlord about it.

The livingroom is going to need some TLC. The 3 piece shelving unit will work there--and possibly the Futon if we don't use that in the music room or the guest room or whatever. But we don't have a cohesive set for the livingroom-I like eccletic --but with some sort of theme. I guess if the livingroom is going to have like concert posters and video games etc--having a futon with a cover and a couple of chairs that don't match wouldn't matter too much. I want to put some large plants in there. I don't think I want the TV facing the street where people can see it. The previous owners have the TV on the right hand wall as you enter--facing the livingroom-but not smack dab in the livingroom. Not sure. Anyway-it will work out.

My Room

I think I want to put my red table in the smaller room and the metal shelving unit (if we don't need it somewhere else). The metal shelving unit would have all my wrapping papers, collected loose papers(magazine cut outs/flyers/stuff) and drawing materials, bookmaking materials, jewellry making.

Maybe my computer could go in the alcove upstairs and both Matt and I could use it--and Matt's could go in the music room? And another one downstairs for the movies?

Microwave

the extra microwave could go in the alcove by the computer so we can make popcorn for movies in bed? i dunno. i really think we only need one. but we could have the extra one somewhere...a tea caddy by the dining room table would be nice.

i want to get a centre piece for the diningroom table--just a little something for the middle of the table-my candle holders/salt and pepper shakers and a vase.

Umm-YOGA in the mornings

Now I can get up at 6.45 and roll into yoga class and come back home and change before I leave for work...maybe have breakfast...

wowzers

2 Bathrooms, Wow...

master bathroom

use the white ceramic bath sets for his and hers sink since both matt and I already have white soap dishes and a cup for toothpaste and another for shaving stuff.
use the white cloth shower curtain...green towels will be nice-need more.

downtstairs washroom
use the stainless steel bathroom set for soap and cup.
maybe put up print from donna--the window shot of a store in chinatown-LA

3 Rooms

Wow. I found out today that the 3 bedroom place I was going to share with my boyfriend and our friend James-is now just for me and Matt.

The bottom two rooms--could double as our own private office/areas and a guest room. We could put a futon-or even my double bed in one of the rooms and a desk. Keep it simple. A shelf with books that I wouldn't want in the livingroom. School texts,stamp book, photo albums and all that. Matt could put his musical instruments in the other room--the bigger one maybe. A desk or table for model making and stuff could go in there. Could be really cool.

Or we could have one room for all officey stuff and the other a guest/music room.

The choices, the choices...

Banana Split

a list of restaurants on the Drive that serve banana desserts

Green Olive
Thai Place (forget the name)
Clove
Sweet Cheribum

Beginning of My Wish List

This wish list isn't about buying per say--more about what I want where...

Main Entrance at door

Small shoe rack (Ikea)
Hat/Coat rack (Ikea) 4 hooks
Some kind of a small huctch/2 shelf unit—for keys/mail/stuff etc to dump as we go in/or grab on the way out.

2nd floor laundry closet area
Towels and sheets
Laundry soap etc
Iron and Vacuums
Coats and jackets/shoes?