shaping up

[dchenes]

Hooray for door curtains! While I do know that it would be very difficult for the guys working on the vinyl siding next door to see diagonally all the way through the kitchen and into the bedroom, it makes me feel better to know that now there's a curtain in the way and they really can't see anything.

Thanks to whuffle's advice and sewing machine, I now have curtains for all the doorways I want them in (bedroom door, bedroom not-really-a-door, office and living room).

Also thanks to whuffle, I have a long set of shelves to use as a counter if I can ever find a butcher block to fit them. They're 14" x 41 3/4", and as close as butcher block tops get is 14" x 48". I suppose I could take a saw to a 48" butcher block, but I don't really want to get into carpentry just now.

I've decided that having put up with living space I don't particularly like for four years in two different apartments, it's worth it to me to spend the money to have things the way I want them and have a home that feels like home, instead of like a place to keep the weather off self and possessions. Hence the door curtains and bookcases and so forth. I even have the money to spend at the moment.

From the Department of Schadenfreude, my upstairs neighbors in Roxbury apparently moved out too. I don't know specifically why, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was for some of the same reasons I wanted out.

From the Department of Redundancy Department, it amazes me how happy it makes me to be back in this apartment again.

Off to buy a wireless router so as not to kill myself tripping over the ethernet cable in the hallway.