(Mostly) Current: Bedroom

With the exception of the wonderful LED television that Tim got me for Christmas, these are pretty much the way our bedroom looks right now.

Sadly, this will be changing soon since we gain our lease for our new apartment on Thursday [insert Wendy's sadface here], but I'm dreaming of paint colors for our new bedroom!  So I have mixed emotions about the move.

Enough about that, though...

Oh, I also forgot that we have a very sweet quote by Owl City in the form of a poster now hanging above our bed now.  So I guess I owe myself a COUPLE of update photos, at least...

We only got those curtains halfway through living here, but I think they added something to the room that it didn't have before!

Wondering why they're hung so high?  Neat tip:  If you have a low ceiling (or very little visual appeal) in any room, you can hang your curtains closer to the ceiling to add height to the room!  It makes a HUGE difference.

Oh, and those prints to the right of the window are from a cute little autobio blog/webcomic you can check out here.  If you have the time, you should check it out!  It's pretty swell.  

This is my side of the bed, complete with a cute little rabbit jewelry holder I got from Anthropologie, all my little techno-gadgets charging, and some side-table paper bouquets I made myself.  I'm pretty proud of them.

The finale:  Tim's side table!  Those are his old glasses, right there.  Interesting fact (to me, at least... not all of us have the same sense of humor as I, I suppose):  he's had those glasses since he was in middle school!  He just kept changing the lenses out.

Oh, and that book jacket without a book inside it for it to house is really only removed so it won't get ruined.  

Anyone else take their book jackets off of large books while they're reading out of the paralyzing fear that they might ruin them if they leave them on?  Or recently make paper bouquets out of boredom?

Apartment Numero Uno--Anything Else I Have A Picture Of...

A good majority of the next few pictures I'm posting are from my bedroom (that was a sunroom) when it snowed.  They aren't great pictures, and I mostly took them because, at the time, I thought it was hilarious that the cats were all clumping around my window to see whatever-it-was that was falling on the outside world.

Admittedly, it still makes me giggle a little.

But I digress!  I have a few photos of my living situation outside of the living room from the first apartment, and while they aren't great, I'll post what I can.

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To give you an idea of just how absolutely terrible these next few photos are going to be... These are some of the best pictures I have of Tim's room (which my room was adjacent to, connected by two little French doors).  The cat was our roommate's cat, and his name was Ragnarok.  Tim and I just referred to him as "Rags," which we thought was more fitting, don't you think?

The photo above shows you Tim's TV, his PS1, a roommate's PS2, his Robotech box set (heck yes), and the door to the bathroom.  Sexy, right?

This is a pretty excellent view of Tim's tiny little desk, and a chair that was a roommate's that we STILL somehow have.  Our cats adore it.

This is one side of our tiny kitchen, complete with a birthday cake for Darrell...

And the other side with the sink and the fridge, complete with Tim.  I had forgotten how long his hair used to be!  Awwwwwwwww.

Instead of a TV, I had a monitor hooked up to an XBox for entertainment in my room.  It had to stay right up against my bed because of the sheer size of my bedroom.  It was... cozy.  Haha.

My cat, Mister Kittens, was watching Doctor Who with me.  Silly cat.

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I have to admit:  I was going to upload a bunch of photos I took from the snow day to show my bedroom off, but then I came across this video.  If you're willing to sit through 4 minutes of cat antics and my awful voice, or even if you only sit through a minute of it, this is a pretty good representation of my room, along with a glimpse of Tim's room.  Bonus:  My room wasn't cleaned! Woohoo!

So if you were wondering about the old old apartment, there it is.  Next up: a handful of photos from our last apartment.  How... exciting?

Apartment Numero Uno -- The Living Room

These next few posts are vaguely embarrassing, because I only just realized that the only pictures I ever took of my previous two apartments were either taken because I was trying to inspire myself to clean (so they're shots of REALLY MESSY rooms), we (Tim and I) were in the process of moving furniture, or it had snowed, and I was trying desperately to get a good picture of the snow before it all melted away. I live in Texas, dontchaknow?  When it snows, it's a small miracle... and when the snow lasts for over a day, it's like an act of God that you were blessed with this mythical water byproduct that so many people curse and mangle their cars over.  So you'll understand when I tell you how exciting it was.

Without further ado, I present to you... Some really terrible snapshots of my first apartment that aren't actually the best representation I could possibly make of it!  (It was a nice apartment, but I shared it with two guys--and before I moved in it had TWO MORE guys living in it.  Sheesh!)

This was the living room from one side... A mess, because we were rearranging.

 This was me and Tim dancing... because we were rearranging the living room.

And if you want a close-up of those possibly perverse and nerdy items adorning our fireplace, here you go.

My nerd is showing: characters above are from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, and the creepy guy who looks like he's looking at her butt is from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

And above is Ed from Fullmetal Alchemist looking as if he's trying to grab this poor girl from Lucky Star.

My microraptor was battling two Pokemon (and obviously winning), while Master Chief of Halo fame pulled at Pikachu's ears... Also involved in this scene was Bumblebee, and an art reference mannequin.

Bumblebee, my Lego Sears Tower, a Storm Trooper on an AT-AT gazing longingly at the Sears Tower, and the cat from FLCL.

After we finally rearranged, we had quesadillas.  YEAH, QUESADILLAS!

The only reason for the above photo being shown is really that it shows where the couch was.  There was a table back there with a computer on it, and the door behind that is where my tiny little closet-sized room was. 

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So anyway, that was the living room to our first apartment.  Mostly.  Basically.

Next up, bedrooms!