Sweet geekery :D

Who needs spring cleaning when you can just toss all of your belongings into boxes and move them into a new space that is already clean.  And in need of your fine decorative touch?

Our current apartment is a bonafide disaster area.  Neither of us cleans anything at all when we can help it, and we don't have a washing machine or dryer so there is dirty laundry all over the floor because we dread the laundromat.  I had to give the shirt I'm wearing today the sniff test.  BUT we are moving in a mere thirteen days and I have promised myself that we will be washer-less no more.  Supposing we can scrape up enough money to purchase used appliances. 

Instead of cleaning out current pit of squalor, I have been working out in my head exactly how I am going to decorate our new apartment.  It has a second bedroom.  My craft room is going to double as a computer room, but this will suffice.  My sewing machine is going to be permanently set up.  I have a huge squishy papasan chair which is just dying to be set up in a cozy corner with a lamp hanging over it.  I can picture it now:  there will be a little table next to it with a CD player on top which can play my audio books.  And a little shelf attached to the wall with a coaster on top, just low enough for me to rest my iced tea at arm's length. 

I intend to whip up some 1950s-housewife-made-curtains.  Store bought are just not snappy enough for me.  I have even started a little silly cross stitch project:  a quote framed by borders.  It just says, "'Tis a Silly Place." With a picture of Camelot under it (the uninitiated would say it is only a castle.  Bah!).  I think I'm going to hang this in the guest bathroom (yes, we have two!  I'm not quite sure why...) so they can puzzle over it while they are on the toilet.  I will probably make a few more for this very purpose.  I thought of some good quotes from Monty Python, Firefly, Star Wars, Father Ted.  Ah, sweet geekery.  These aren't the droids you're looking for.

I want to hang some true kitschy cross stitch designs in the kitchen or living room.  One that says, "Home is Where the Cat Is."  I guess this would be a very apt description for us since we don't live anywhere permanent, and with any luck our cat will be with us for a long time. 

And for all that moaning, I am really excited to move.