My Nester Hubby

It's strange, even after he left the military, we are still moving around a lot. We've moved 6 times in the last 4 years, that's less than 1 year at each place. Two things happen each time we move: (1) I become very domesticated and will start making home cooked meals for the first few months, then it evitably slip to Hamburger Helper or Dining Out for one reason or another, (2) Hubby also becomes very domesticated. He expresses it by furnishing and decorating the place.

To be honest, neither one of us are all gunhole about this new apartment. It's third floor with no elevator (what's the big deal? YOU try getting a few buddies of yours to help move your bed, couch, and TV up 3 floors), its kinda dingy because we moved from our 1500 sf house to a 1400 sf house to this 1000 sf apartment, and it has this dingy WALL A/C that keeps the kitchen cool when you cook. Then again, it's all a matter of perspective. In light of most bay area folks with no A/Cs and rolling black out during last week's heat wave and 164 heat related death, the little dingy A/C is a blessing.

So anyways, I have been counting down to the day the lease end the day we moved in -- 242 more days to go -- and, frankly, I have no interest in unboxing any more than what I need to get by. And after the nightmarish move, I am extremely reluctant to buy any additional furniture, OF ANY SORT!

Saturday, Hubby wanted to go to Ikea, a place which we visit an average of every nine months. You got it, every time I give birth to a baby. No! Every time we MOVE. He was very insistent about buying a coffee table. A COFFEE table! What the hell for? We've been using these TV trays and they are doing just fine. On top of that, he also wanted to get a RUG to put under the couch and coffee table (yeah, if you actually remember my blog from San Diego, I had pictures of the rug that we bought back then, from Ikea...). It was a very colorful rug, because "we need some colors in our life." I have no guts to figure out if he really meant that. But because of the very colorful rug, I had to buy a very colorful lamp shade to go with the rug. All of a sudden, our dingy, not-too-great apartment actually became COZY!!

In addition to that, I came home to this SPOTLESS living room, dining room, and kitchen today. Our little apartment is actually WELCOMING. Wow! I was utterly amazed. Still am. Not that he's usually a messy person, but, where DID he put all the JUNK that were lying around ALL OVER the place?!?! LUCKY simply doesn't begin to describe how I feel. :)