so. it’s been a really long couple of days; my parents are in town until tomorrow so i have been mad busy. yesterday they drove up with a bunch of stuff i left at their house when i moved out, so we spent a couple hours bringing all that up to my apartment, then went to dinner and they headed back to their hotel.

this morning they picked me up in my dad’s truck bright and early and we drove out to ikea, where we shopped and shopped and shopped and then shopped some more. i got an incredible amount of stuff, all of which was quite cheap. new kitchen things, candles, chairs, bathroom stuff, a new desk chair, dishes and utensils and whatnot, and most notably a gorgeous new bed and mattress to go with it, so that i can finally move the futon out into my living room and use it as a couch. unfortunately, sometime between picking up the bedframe at the warehouse and arriving in brooklyn, a component of it has vanished. it’s possible it somehow didn’t get loaded on the truck, or fell off the truck somehow on the drive home, but in any case i don’t have it so i don’t get to sleep in my new bed tonight. we’re going to call them tomorrow though, and either have them deliver it or gundam and i will go out and get it this weekend. so all is well. a very busy and rather stressy day, though, plus i’m mad sore from moving everything (including the new mattress) up the stairs into my apartment. but it’s all good. i am tired and happy.

tomorrow morning i’m going to meet up with my parents again for breakfast or lunch, and we’ll either go back out to ikea or just bum around the city for a while being tourists, and then they’re driving back home to massachusetts.

side note: the huge grass rug i got for my living room smells SO good, you just wouldn’t believe it. it makes my entire house smell like the fields in back of my parents’ when they’ve just cut the hay in the fall. love it.