After vacuuming and mopping, I started moving the furniture since I had it away from the walls. When I moved in, I couldn’t imagine doing anything else with the arrangment. Now that I’ve mixed it up a little bit, I really like it. I can easily see where things should hang on the walls, where I need more lighting, etc. I knew I wanted to take down the vertical blinds and get some curtians, but now that my bed is so close to the window, I’m a little concerned about it. It gets very bright in the morning, which I don’t mind so much, but it also gets very hot. Two days a week, the garbage truck comes down the alley and picks up the garbage from the trash room that I live right above. They don’t seem to use the “back up beep” anymore but the sound of the clanging Dumpster is not a chriping bird or a lovely waterfall.
And progress continues, but not so much tonight. Here’s from last night.
March 6th, 2007
invent a pill that would make cats not shed, I would be a gazillionaire.
March 4th, 2007
So I’ve decided to star the Apartment Therapy Eight week cure. I read the book. I had a wide range of emotions in the 4 hours it took me to finish it, including guilt, jealousy, self-doubt, excitement, more guilt, and determination. I moved into my tiny studio near Culver City over a year ago from an apartment in Brooklyn that I had nearly the way I wanted it. I ditched everything I had and was excited to start over with new things in a new place. Then I got here. And its pretty much looked the same for a year. Its very much time to do something about it before I lose my shit.
It shameful, but I’m a graphic designer and I’ve become paralyzed by color. I also make up excuses as to why I haven’t picked something and gone with it. I could list them but they are lame and unimportant.
My friend Lorrie has struggles with her weight for a while and is now going to Weight watchers and blogging about it. You can check her out at www.myallnaturalweightloss.com. I feel like her food guilt is similar to my apartment cleaning/decorating/maintaining guilt in a lot of ways. She’s awesome and crafty and a huge inspiration right now in a whole lot of ways.
Alright, time to make with the cleaning of the floors and the touching of the walls now.
Here’s the rest of my before pictures.
March 4th, 2007