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who lets me have a credit card, round 2

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I AM OUT OF CONTROL.

we just have a lot of shelves and nothing to display on them, OKAY?!

first of all… little russian dolls, only instead of russian dolls, they are FREAKING ROBOTS! which is so adorable i can barely even handle it. hi, i’m a twelve year old boy, apparently.

side note: i am also obsessed with owls, so my brother & SIL brought back little russian dolls à la owl, HAND-CARVED in wood. they have little mini baby owls inside of them. SO CUTE.

secondly, i got 10″ wire letters… D for dan, and MYSTERY LETTER for me, because unless you don’t listen to anything i say, elle is my pseudonym so my crazy junkie ex-boyfriend doesn’t find me. it is, though, linked to my real name directly. ouuuu, FIRST HINT!

HOW MYSTERIOUS.

it’s super cheesy and lame, and i’ve always hated when peolpe had FAMILY, or LOVE, or HOPE, or any of that bullshit on their fireplace mantles, because i am an asshole like that… but in all honesty it’s actually quite cute, and i take it back immediately.

crap, i’m a frigging softie.

D + MYSTERY LETTER sitting in a tree.

or in this case, on a shelf in my living room.

and last but not least, a little bright red runner/rug to tie in the colours in the kitchen. because how frigging adorable is that?

dan actually just texted me this:
“are you a shopaholic?!”

legit.

i think i’ve been watching too much big love. nicky’s spending habits got the family $60,000 in debt in season 2.

oh wow, look who needs a life.

i’m not allowed near my credit card for like, a month, okay?

who lets me have a credit card?

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IDIOTS, THAT’S WHO!

i sold my couch, so i figured i could dip into my bootcamp savings to buy a few household things to tide me over until i get my new sectional. i can use some of the couch money to pay for my bootcamp, and then use some of my paycheque to add to the couch fund.

check it out, i’m doing math!

i often check the SALE section in online stores because then i feel less awful about the terrible decisions i’m making.

on with it.

i painted our living room a deep mocha/brown colour, and it’s GORGEOUS. the main colours in that room are brown, black, and white… WOAH, I AM SO WILD!

the couch we’re likely getting is a light sandy brown, and all the furniture in there is black, clean-lined ikea stuff. the accessories are all different- a white rice paper floorlamp, also from ikea, my white & black tegan & sarah poster from their show in 2007, a hand-carved elvis portrait in natural wood and painted black wood- you know, whatever!

the window in the living room is AMAZING, and i never really wanted to cover it at all, but i figure one curtain panel (pulled open to the side) would still showcase the amazing details, let in some light, and add a bold pop of … boldness?

so i bought this:

the floors in the house are old hardwood, and although it’s awesome to have floors original to the home, the ARE a little bit rough- covered in paint splatters or scuff marks here and there.

we’ve decided to use the steamer trunk as a coffee table (which doubles as storage for ALL of our linens! … towels, sheets, washcloths, etc). perfect for space-saving and extra storage we DON’T have.

but then i was all… well… i need some sort of rug to go under the steamer trunk that kind of ties in all the colours of the room- not one that MATCHES 100% (because that’s boring), but one that GOES with the room. and it couldn’t be one solid colour because stains and pet hair would be way too obvious (lesson learned in previous houses)

this is me being logical.

(are you buying it yet?)

so i stumbled upon this little bad boy:

and oh my gosh, i really love it.

the living room is the one room in the house i’m DYING to finish and show all of you- mostly because of the whole couch fiasco, and also because it’s one of the nicest rooms in the house! it’s small, but it’s cozy and has loads of character, and i think the things we’re putting in the room will really make it stand out. it’ll have such a comfortable, relaxing feel to it- and it ties in perfectly with our kitchen.

can you tell i’m beaming right now? we are SO close to the finish line and i’m just paralyzed with how excited i am.

thanks for your patience- and you can look forward to some picture posts (before & after) next week!

happy weekend, babies.

xx

- e

why am i such a hormonal dillhole?

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no seriously, i’d like to know.

maybe it’s the stress of the deadlines i have at work, and the notion that i’ll have to come into the office on saturday afternoon, regardless of the millions of fun activities i already have planned for the weekend. maybe it’s dan’s dry humour and how irritating it can be to put up with nothing but sarcasm after ten hours in an office the size of my closet and a lack of coffee that doesn’t taste like horse piss. maybe it’s because i cashed my paycheque at noon, and by one in the afternoon, i was already left with $100 to stretch over two weeks because of bills, savings for rent, and the accumulating interest on my credit card. it could be the stress of trying to find an affordable apartment dan and i can flourish in when everything in our neighbourhood is overpriced and under-renovated. it could be a lot of things.

“you’ve lived with boyfriends before, but this is new to me. it’s supposed to be easy, and fun, and so far? i’m not having fun. what happened to us?”

dan has a point. where did his best friend go? why am i so fucking uptight all the time? why can’t i have fun with apartment hunting, or the specifics of how we’re going to fit any furniture into the apartment we do chose? why does everything have to be so calculated and why do i have to figure everything out right this second before my head implodes and the universe ends and oh my god, what is my problem?

we went to see an apartment for the second time last night. my friend is the landlord, and he’s giving us an amazing price, and there’s no pressure what-so-ever. it’s the third floor of an old house in our favourite part of the city. it has slanted ceilings and big baseboards and it’s cozy and perfect and i already love it. when we came home i took a hot bubble bath, played online scrabble with biz, drank a glass of wine wine, and watched law & order while dan made potato, lentil & bacon soup from scratch. i can’t remember the last time i’ve sat around in my underwear, eating dinner with a lover, and spending hours laughing, and tickling and just enjoying being around each other. i’m so lucky to be with someone who can bring that out in me, again. who can make me remember that i am still the fun, care-free girl he’s known since we were kids. i’m so lucky to have someone who loves me the way dan does. i need to just relax, and enjoy our relationship- because i have it so easy with him.

also,

MOVING MARCH 1ST, YO!