I love the city

I love my new place. This morning I had to look for a hardware store and decided to just walk around to find one, and there's one just two blocks from my apartment (!). Even managed to find cheap laundry places (99 cents/ lbs for wash and fold, in case I get lazy).

Got home with my new tools and got cracking at putting my couch together. It came in 5 huge boxes that the apartment manager quite kindly moved into my apartment while I was at work.

It was one of those assemble-it-your-damn-self kind. When I saw that online, I thought what the heck, how hard could it be. A couple of nuts and bolts, velcro, and I'll be done and would've saved myself hundreds of $$. It would've been that simple if the screw holes were aligned. Dammit. I had the couch in all kinds of position while I was putting it together. Half the screws wouldn't go in, so I just threw 'em out and put the bottom cover on. Thankfully, it's still sturdy. Actually, after I was done (and after I took this picture) I stumbled on 5 funny wooden blocks. Turned out they're the couch legs. I was supposed to attach them before putting on the bottom cover. I almost threw those out too. Almost.

So after all that work + putting together the TV stand, I'm left with blistering thumb, numb fingers, and hurting back. Owwwiieee....

I'm off to bed to let my body mend itself. Tomorrow I'm gonna try to finish packing stuff at my old place and hopefully can bring everything back here in one trip. I want to be done with moving shit around and get started on settling down. Might even drop by at Nils's place to see how the open house is going.

Enjoy your weekend, people!

Busy busy busy

I've been missing in action for a while. Too many things to do, too little time. Last week (or was it the week before?) I received the good news. I got into Berkeley! Yeay!!! It is too good to be true. Thank you God for giving me a second chance. I was so happy, I almost started jumping up and down in my cube. But I didn't. I waited until I was outside. God knows how happy I am. Now's my chance to redeem myself, to really do what I want to do, and to really make the most of college experience. Damn I can't wait. School starts in August, so between now and then I have to make arrangements (such as who will pay for it) and prepare myself for a hectic 3 years.

Last week too, I signed my lease for my new apartment. I'm on my way to creating a new routine to better survive my post-Nils days. Today I actually sat down and drew a layout of my apartment. To scale. Using a software of course. But still, it's pretty cool. I had to check whether I can fit a queen bed in my studio, that's why I went through all that trouble. I still want some space left for a love seat, coffee table, and TV. I have to buy one thing at a time due to budget constraint. Today I bought my mattress. I'll wait another couple of weeks before I order my bed. I can't wait to get settled in my new place. It's gonna be a fun summer. I can tell.

Hope you guys had a good weekend. Nils's friend is in town, so we're having dinner (I'm being anti-social and came in to post instead). Anyway, we're sitting around chatting and watching movies. I already went to happy hour with work friends last night, so tonight I'm being a good girl. It's almost bed time. Tomorrow I have loads of stats homework and studying to do. Two more weeks and I'll be done with stats forever. I hope.