laura n. came down from syracuse on friday evening, which also happened to be her birthday. we went out to dinner at a delish mexican place in clarendon and sat and talked for a while. after dinner, we quickly ran into the container store and crate & barrel to drool over stuff that neither one of us could afford. we dreamed of what it would be like to be able to furnish one's entire house in crate & barrel furniture.
saturday morning i was embarassed to have absolutely nothing in my pantry/fridge/house to eat. we ended up doing instant oatmeal and black coffee. although, i do have to admit that instant oatmeal (maple & brown sugar, obv.) is one of my favorite breakfasts ever. we had some coffee and sat at the kitchen table that is currently functioning as my only living room furniture, then realized that we were running late for the day's activities and hurried to get showered and ready.
we met laura's brother nathan at famous dave's for some lunch. famous dave's is a chain bbq place, about 30 minutes south of here, and it's probably my favorite bar-b-que.
we had a delicious meal (i had the pulled pork, grilled corn, mac & cheese and french fries), then headed to ikea for some serious shopping. i am still so torn as to where i want to buy real furniture (and if i actually want to buy "real" furniture), so i decided to pick up a few storage solutions & simple accessories instead of going all out and furnishing the entire house. it turned out to be quite the successful ikea run. i got:
-a wooden shelf for the laundry room, which is going to hold tools, various laundry items (detergent, etc.) and cat paraphernalia (food, treats, ear drops, etc.)
-three or four glass jars for kitchen storage
-three green/dark green/clear jars for bathroom (soap, etc.) storage
-a couple more spice jars for the spice rack that i can't seem to fit into my new kitchen decor
-two new bed pillows
-a big mirror for my dining room
-probably a handful of other items that seem to be slipping my mind at the moment
after our successful idea run, laura, nate and i enjoyed some ice cream at coldstone (i got the strawberry blonde) then headed back home to my place. we watched the new sherlock holmes movie (at least new to me) and by the time we were done it was dark and we were exhausted. nate went home and laura and i stayed up talking for a while until i could hardly keep my eyes open. my god, shopping can be exhausting.
on sunday morning i slept in until 8. big deal. i decided to seize the day and go to the new safeway for some food before laura got up. a few friends had told me that the new safeway was "awesome" and "rivaled wegmans". my review of the new safeway: "meh". it had a pretty good organic/heath food section and did have a nice new feel to it, but i found the produce selection and overall selection to be somewhat lacking. i'm just sayin'.
i made blueberry muffins and turkey bacon for breakfast. laura, andy and i sat at the dining room table (our first official meal there!). it was awesome. percy is going to have to learn some new table manners. apparently if you let him up on all surfaces in an apartment he thinks he's allowed on all surfaces in the house. who knew.
after our hearty breakfast, andy watched some football while laura and i ran to home depot to get some floor protector pad things for the bottom of the new chairs & table, and to see whether we could find a pumpkin (please note the date we were looking: 10/31...not the greatest idea). at home depot we picked up a bunch of stuff that wasn't really on my list, but stuff that felt like a homeowner should own. namely, needle nose pliers and mums for the front porch. we weren't able to find a pumpkin at home depot, but andy told us about this church down the street that still had some for sale. we made it just in time and snatched the last halfway decent pumpkin.
laura and i sat on the front stoop and carved the pumpkin, then planted the mums in some planters i bought at home depot. we had diet coke and talked the whole time. it was really nice.
laura left shortly after that and then it was time for me to get to work on cleaning and unpacking. i worked pretty hard the entire afternoon and can now proudly say that we are well on our way to being entirely unpacked. we have maybe three or four more boxes to go.
sunday evening andy and i were expecting quite a few trick-or-treaters, and the previous home owners told us they would stop by to pick up their mail which we had been collecting over the past week. turns out the four bags of candy i bought were pretty unncessary - we had maybe 20 trick-or-treaters in total (my favorite was a little transformer boy who said something to his parents about the "velita" in my jack-o-lantern.
the previous home owners never stopped by -- we got an e-mail from the lady later that night that said her kids were still pretty upset that they can't go into "their house" any more. cute. hopefully one day my kids will love this home too.
one thing that kind of made my day was that andy was able to hook up the tv to the internet so we caught up on grey's anatomy -- we were behind a record 4 episodes.
monday morning i woke up feeling more tired than i have felt in a long time. it was rough getting out of bed. it was rough saying goodbye to andy in the morning. i did the stealthy "block him from his toothbrush" move so he couldn't leave, then pouted and whined when he tried to leave (all in a very cute, endearing way, obviously). he was able to sneak out the door by promising we could watch more grey's after work. i always fall for his mind tricks.
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