Working on the Apartment
You know your priorities have changed when you walk right past the cosmetics department at Target, and get all excited about buying a cordless drill.
We've been doing a lot of unpacking and cleaning the past two days. We slacked off completely after getting the bed, sofa, and TV set up; because when you think about it, that's all you really need anyway.
We've got one closet. I don't mean just one in the bedroom either, I mean the entire apartment has one closet. Now we have to buy new stuff to store all our old stuff. The "one closet" belongs to me now. That's because I'm the one with the closet organizer, so it makes sense that I would need a closet to put it. That was the logic I used on my husband anyway. But, he was okay with it and said there's an Ikea in Pittsburgh, so we can pick up an inexpensive wardrobe for him. He can be very sweet and that made me happy. But, the important thing is I got the closet.
Vinnie and I haven't butted heads too much yet. The only problem (so far) is that everything I like is too girly for him and everything he likes is too ugly for me. We're compromising though. I agreed to not put up my pink and black stiletto shoe printed shower curtain, if he got rid of his ugly-ass desk in the office. I suggested he get one similar to my desk and he said it's too girly. Dude (because sometimes I call him dude), it's galvanized steel and beechwood. What's girly about that? And who's the one who picked out the "manly" cordless drill? Me. It's not like I bought a pink drill, and they didn't have any pink ones anyway because I checked. So now we're trying to come to a happy agreement between girly, manly, and butt ugly.
I made a wine cabinet. Yep. All by myself. We bought a ready-to-assemble cabinet from Target. I put it together and attached a stemware holder to a shelf, with our new manly, non-pink cordless drill. Then I picked up a small wine bottle holder. Here's the funny thing. I know NOTHING about wine. I checked out a wine forum and people were talking about wine tasting, and how some wine tastes like oak and chocolate with a note of cherry. To me, it all tastes sour and that's the extent of my wine-tasting abilities. But, since I'm going for the illusion of sophistication in the living room, I gotta buy some wine. Instead of going through the trouble of educating myself on the different varieties, I decided to just pick out the ones with the coolest labels. See, even choosing wine can be made simple with this technique. I just hope when we serve it to guests, they don't know anything about wine either, or else I'll risk looking like a wine poser.
I hear Vinnie playing with the drill so I better go check on him...make sure he doesn't accidentally attach his hand to the wall or something.
