Life is Busy!

Life has been really very busy lately. Last Saturday was David and Jenny's birthday party. It was HUGE! There were 52 people at the party. Keeping in mind that we held the party in the apartment that only has two bedrooms, the living room, a hallway and the kitchen. It was quite crowded. There were balloons, presents, and people everywhere. It was great fun though.

Then we have today, which is Jenny's moving day. She has been packing stuff for the past week so that she wouldn't go too crazy with work today. Jenny moving out means that we have almost no furniture left in the apartment. Once they have completely finished moving, I will take some pictures. At the very least we need to get a couch, some bookshelves, a shelf for the living room, kitchen chairs, a computer chair for me, a wardrobe, some lamps, some kitchen stuff, and some other items as well. We bought a vacuum and a coffee table from Mattias, so that is a few less things to buy. Jenny has given us the kitchen table and her desk. Neither of which are in the best shape, but they will work. We are going to check used places for things like rugs and small items. We spent about a month trying to find a used couch, but everything is too far away or too expensive. Without a car we don't really have a way to move something we buy. By the time we borrow a car, rent a trailer, and pay for gas and time... we might as well just have bought something cheap at Ikea since they deliver.

We will also need to get some rugs, some paintings, and some curtains. Those things aren't very high priority though. We might get those downtown so that they aren't quite so obviously Ikea items. Thursday we will have our Ikea trip. On Wednesday we might go see what is available downtown first. If we have time. David has a large paper due this week, and I have a seminar and a paper topic due. Saturday we will be going to a Julgask at a nation. That is a fancy Christmas dinner filled with tradition. The food isn't great, but the entertainment makes it worth the money. Plus David and I don't get to go out as a couple that often. We're both so busy!

So in the space of 10 days we have had Thanksgiving, a BIG birthday party, cleaned the apartment three times (before the party, after the party, and after Jenny moves out), have had to plan out furniture to buy, have to buy furniture, assemble it, go to a Julgask, help Jenny move, go to the immigration office, visit the tax office, get the apartment moved into David's name, visit the people in charge of social payments, and do the usual school work and classes. We need to add like 10 hours of time to each day!