Z and I celebrate our six month dating anniversary today. We don't even know long it has been since he moved in with me. Eight months maybe? But this is my apartment in my name, and I share it with him. Three days ago we signed the lease on a new apartment together. We move in on June 20th.
That's why this big move in June is such a big occasion. It's real. It's the first time we are legally bound on paper to financially share something.
I decided to make a blog about our moving adventures because I get so many great ideas from Pinterest, from other blogs, from magazines, from my own head. I figured it would be cool to pull all these ideas together into one place. I intend to post about all my plans, the good ones and the bad ones. All the things that come up in the course of the move. All the projects we start. Stuff like that.
Right now I've got several projects twirling in my head. There are two big ones and one not-so-big one. I'll start with it.
The air conditioning in this new apartment is provided by a wall unit much like a hotel. Small, but efficient. It is under the window in the living room, right beside the front door. My plan for that space is to built a simple little window seat, one that is raised to leave space for the air unit to actually circulate air.
I think this should be a fairly simple task. Build a square out of wood and put a cushion on top. Boom. Or, I currently have a tiny table I have been using as a desk. I've also considered using that as the base for the window seat. It's wider across than I would like and not wide enough the other way, but it's already bought and already built.
The two big projects are: a budget binder and a desk/command center.
The budget binder is the one I am working on today, and is really the only one I can work on this early (a little under two months before we move in). It's going to have a space for us to save receipts, to track every single purchase. A place to check off each bill of the month, every month. A place for saving. And I may also include the menu plan and grocery list in it. I plan to make a very detailed post about this later on.
The desk/command center is going to be a major project, one that involves some serious help from Z. And probably my dad, since he owns the nice power tools. First I want to build a desk. Just a flat top, help up by bookshelves on the sides. The shelves will be accessible from the sides, except about 6-8 inches of space at the front which will face frontwards. This creates more useful shelving, I think.
On the wall above the desk will be the "command center" portion. A decent size corkboard and a huge dry erase board. The corkboard is to hang (with a clothespin glued to a tack) up bills, coupons, important documents, inspirational things. The dry erase board is for writing a two-three month calendar, a running to do list/checklist, the permanent daily chore list, the weekly menu, the permanent schedule (my classes, etc). I initially considered chalk because it's prettier, but frankly it's just too big of a hassle to clean up after. There's pastel pink chalk dust everywhere! And after you use it the first time it's never as clean again. Dry erase boards at least can come clean easier and expo markers make less mess.
Once we start making them I will post pictures of the process!
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