hoorah!

our bank account is greatly diminished! hoorah! well.. it will be in two weeks. why is this a good thing? i'll tell you.

the pile of books on the floor, three deep and mid-thigh high, will be no more. we bought a bookcase yesterday. finally. 90cm high, 160cm wide, will fit exactly under the window, in a very aesthetically pleasing manner.

but surely, i hear you cry, a bookcase shouldnt diminish your bank account THAT much? well no. but while we were in the pine trader's, looking for a bookcase, we also saw a bedframe. now, the pine trader has a lot of stuff, you wander around, find something you like, tell them the measurements you want, and the colour, and they tell you how much it will be. in another room, they have seconds, and in another room, they have what i assume is stuff someone ordered, then decided they didnt want. thats the room the bedframe was in. both of us loved it, and its a queen, which we've been wanting for a while. (a double is just a little bit too small for two adults who wiggle a lot in their sleep.) it was not QUITE the right colour, but it was close, it was cheap ($500 for a bedframe? SCORE!), and we loved it. so today we went back, to make sure we actually like it as much as we thought, and we bought it.

well, thats still not enough to GREATLY diminish a bank account. but since our bed is only a double, we also needed A MATTRESS!!!! HOORAH! and THATS where the great diminishing of the bank account happened. but it was ALL WORTH IT. the mattress is SO COMFY. the bed is gorgeous. the bookcase is lovely, and we will no longer have piles of books on the floor.

so i am HAPPY that our bank account is low now. and taxes soon, so we'll probably get it all back anyway.

the only thing left now is to rearrange the room so everything fits where it needs to, and to buy sheets. my job is sheets, jon's is rearrangement. he already knows where he's putting everything. i have no idea what colour sheets i want. his only preference is not black, not pink, not red. im thinking green. now if only spotlight have a sale next week.....