Kitty, Apartment, &c.

My parents and wonderful younger sister helped move me into my apartment this weekend. With the four of us working, we were able to move all the stuff (read: furniture, books, and yarn) in fairly quickly, and unpack the multiple boxes and bags with startling efficiency. After helping me set up more things, my parents left on Sunday morning, but Annie stayed through this morning. Yesterday we did one of the most important things on my list: We started the process of adopting a cat. Her name is Penny, and she is fat and lazy and wonderful. I am very excited!

While I wait for the phone call saying she is on her way over, I thought I'd post some pictures of my apartment.

Here is the living room (I only show half because the other half is empty. This is the case with much of my apartment-- I need to collect some more furniture, and strew yarn about, to make it feel more like a real home. Mostly strew yarn about.)

The kitchen/dining room area (all paintings are waiting a week or so to be hung up, so that I know where to put them in places I'll see them most often. The Elizabeth Black painting on the dining room table is the only one I know exactly where to put.)

My wonderful Workroom area-- books, a desk, a dresser, my wheel and sewing machine cabinet, and so on. It's a great room-- especially because of the closet full of bins of yarn! This weekend perhaps Penny and I will sort the yarn properly-- right now it's just shoved into bins so that we could unpack everything else.

The ever-so-exciting bathroom (although it is very pretty-- we got a lovely curtain and rug set)

The washer/dryer set my wonderful neighbor Chris helped to haul up the steps and install-- today Penny and I will make banana muffins for him and his family in thanks.

And last but not least, my really empty looking bedroom.

There's a walk in closet which is also fairly empty at present. I have no doubt that none of this emptiness will last, knowing me.

Tomorrow I start work, and that should be fun, but today is all  about Penny! I'll post a photo of her later.