Steps

Today Lucy and I put up the curtains that we bought. They are awesome. Stockholm Blad from Ikea. I hate to say that I actually really enjoy that store but the stuff there is reasonably priced (generally) and of decent quality. It’s the H&M of furniture stores. Or maybe that’s backwards?

Anyways. We found them for half-off, so it was a no-brainer. We put them up today - I installed the hardware, she hemmed them up with the iron. It was nice. Gracie was hopping around everywhere. It was nice and normal. It felt like “getting ready” for something great. And now the place looks even better than it normally does. It’s a secret that I hate blinds with a passion. I will rid my life of them soon.

Now, she’s on the futon sleeping and I’m listening to All Hail West Texas and dorking around on the internet. (I also got the cheapest wireless router I could find this weekend.) We’ve got plans to see the Weakerthans on Wednesday and go to Santa Cruz next Saturday to see some friends. Nothington is playing on Tuesday, so it’ll be great to see Jay and Chris and Rich and hopefully Lalo too. Life is pretty great, honestly. I’m sad to be leaving the apartment Sean, Travis and I have shared for three years though. Almost to the day, actually. Weird.

I’m known to often be a bit too sentimental, sappy, etc. but I feel like things are really going well right now. I’m not going to dwell on the negatives for once. I’ll acknowledge them but I know that it’s not the end of the world to leave my friends and brother - after all it’s only just across the bridge. It sucks though that there has to be this physical space between where I work and where I lived. Otherwise, I doubt I would have moved. At least I definitely would have waited a bit longer, you know? But it just didn’t make sense to keep a $600/month storage space in San Francisco.

Oakland, here I am. Gimme something good.