We painted the whole place in ONE DAY, with the help of some fine friends and much beer. :) It looks SO much better than it did with everything white. There's a few more things I need to move over from my place, but after that we're all moved in! It's quite an adjustment to go from a bachelor apartment to a 2 bedroom condo. We have a bedroom and you can actually close the door! Someday we will have a washer/dryer! The cats have windowsills to sit on and mutter at pigeons from!

Today we're going to pick up an Expedit bookcase from Craigslist, for a mere $50 plus paying for a taxi to move it, rather than $169 plus taxes plus however we get it home! Oh, how I love Craigslist (because it first loved me — sing along now, all ye who still have hymns stuck in your head due to countless repetition).

Tomorrow will likely be an actual IKEA trip, which will be both wonderful and insane, as we are going on a Saturday during their Boxing Week sale, so it's guaranteed to be a madhouse in there. But we have need of furniture and our budget is limited, so off we go.

We borrowed a stud finder from Dan, and as a perfect example of the sort of ridiculous humour I have to live with every day, Chris immediately held it against his head, made it beep and said, "See, honey? It ALREADY found a stud!"