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!