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March 15, 2004
Settling Into Our New Home
We've just completed our first full week in our new apartment in Brookline. Slowly but surely the apartment is looking less like a warehouse and more like a home. We'd started with over 100 boxes to unpack, and now we're down to around half a dozen, but they're probably the most challenging -- we're trying to avoid having the place get too cluttered, but we're running out of closets to store our stuff. So much of the last week has been a series of pilgrimages to the local Bed Bath & Beyond, as well as the neighborhood hardware store, picking up a variety of storage solutions -- a pantry for the kitchen, sliding plastic drawers for the closets, flat boxes that slide neatly under the bed.
Meanwhile, Susanne has become a master civil engineer, finding creative ways to store our things in every available nook and cranny. She's managed to pack a precarious amount of stuff into one particular closet, affectionately known as the Tetris closet -- a disjointed vertical wall of boxes, lamps, guitars, milk crates and other junk that appears to have fallen from the sky, piling ever higher to the ceiling. If we can manage to keep the pile growing without an avalanche, so much the better, but it'll probably require us speaking only at a whisper within 10 feet of the closet, lest the vibrations give gravity the opportunity to wreak havoc.
Over the next few days I'll try to take some pictures of the apartment and post them on the blog.... -ac
Posted by acarvin at March 15, 2004 10:43 AM
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