So, the roomie (Quickie) and I have been in a lets-clean-our-hideously-filthy-apartment kind of mood lately. And so, we did that. Well, kind of. The three worst offenders were the living room, the kitchen, and my bedroom. (No lie, it is thoroughly impressive how little cleaning either of us likes to do.) But every once and a while, something snaps in us, and we just have to DO SOMETHING. So we started in the living room. Quickie asked me how I felt about us cleaning it up (and i was like, Meh.) so we decided to tackle it literally one corner at a time. I am captain A.D.D.-pants, however, so I ended up daydreaming about re-arranging the furniture and arranging the wall art in a more classy way. (Less like we had painted the walls with adhesive and just thrown things at them, leaving what stuck.. Which is kind of what it looked like before.) And I still had boxes of decor from when I moved in (Last august...) so figured, since I'm signing the lease for another year, might as well move in. So, I went to work on a tuesday and came home to a miraculously clean and tidy living room with the furniture re-arranged as per my specifications. Loooove it! Mike worked his butt off while I helped shove crap in trash bags and closets. Teamwork! I later rearranged things a little bit, moving my shabby-chic by accident yellow bookcase out from the corner (since chipped paint is in, might as well flaunt that bitch) and centering (as much as possible) the t.v./video game center. (My ocd was ticking.) So the crap was in the trash where it belonged, the furniture was moved to its new home, now we had... A hideously stained carpet and broken blinds plus awful wall art to deal with. Hmm... So, on a random kick, I spent an all-nighter re-arranging lots of crap. Took all my shenanigans off the walls and replaced them with slightly less ridiculous things. (Except WTPJ... More to come on that at a later date.)
NEW PARAGRAPH
So I took down most of my wall art and began moving it around to try and class the joint up a bit. (Note: Any time I say wall-art, just keep in mind that that means band posters, anime drawings, wal-mart finds and a couple of painted canvasses by my bestie/former roommate Shepherd. This is not the Louvre.) So, now on the west wall, we have all the monster-type posters: How to survive a zombie attack, WTPJ (I promise, I will literally post right after this to explain the horror those four letters evoke) and my Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter poster. (I hear the movie was terrible, but I adored the book and the poster is bitchen, so it stays.) The northern wall contains a window, a lamp, a huge samurai sword (No, really) and a Boondock Saints poster. (Classy.) The southern wall is my animation/random wall: A tin wall hanging thing with a black cat on it (someone gave it to me, I have a black cat. meh.) My sweet-ass batman clock, my small painted canvas from Shepherd (for hanukkah 2 years ago) of Toki from Metalocalypse, a Naruto poster, and another rendering from shepherd (and yet another hanukkah gift) depicting Kakashi Sensei from Naruto wearing a yarmulke and reclining on a chaise (shirtless, natch) whilst enjoying some challah & manishevitz. (Again, yes, really.) It's labelled Kosher Kakashi. We're a little weird. (I know, shocking, since I come off as SO NORMAL.) Oh, and last but not least, the eastern wall contains 3 Beatles posters because of reasons.
MOVING ON
We went to wal-mart to purchase some fine home furnishings to complete our den of debauchery. For the hideously stained carpet, a black rug (ingrained with skull & crossbones pattern). For the couch of awful-ness, a new king-size blanket in a color that almost matches. (to cover the threadbare seats and holes in the back cushions.) For the broken blinds, well, not much could be done. So we took them down and hung up my version of a classy window covering: A spring-loaded curtain rod, clear rings & a fabric shower curtain. (It looks better than it sounds.) Then, to round out the room and make up for the fact that we're sparse on seating, a new black cube/ottoman thing. Not exactly chic & grown up, but a VAST improvement.
Then, I tackled my bedroom. Now, it's still not done, but I now have a floor. (MOTHER OF GOD.) Basically, my room was pretty easy. I went through the boxes of bullshit from my last apartment that were still stacked in it, threw away most of it, and shoved the rest in my closets in an organized manner. Then, I rearranged my furniture (by turning my bed 90 degrees and taking my nightstand out to the living room to make an endtable and moving my little dresser over to be my new nightstand) and made my bed with my temporary sheets. (I say temporary because I have no intention of using $7 wal-mart sheets longterm.) Then, TO THE INTERNET FOR NEW STUFF! I bought a new comforter, new sheets from macy's, and a curtain to replace the blinds in my window. Hopefully that has all been shipped to my parent's house and I can bring it all home tonight when I go to do laundry. Shveet!
I will probably take pictures of everything and upload at a later date. As for the 3rd room on our list of projects, the kitchen is still disturbing. Because we both hate it a lot. And my dishwasher sucks and I'll be damned if I want to wash dishes by hand. So right now, we're on strike about the kitchen, but I think we'll tackle it this week, because it has to happen. Sooo bad. And the dining room, which was formerly not that bad, has turned into the catch-all for the stuff we wanted out of the living room, but still needed to do something with, so for now, it's a crap heap. We'll tackle it later... Probably.
Welp, that's all for now. I have to go write a post about WTPJ and then go to my 'rents for laundry day. Much love, non-readers.
---Alamo
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