Design Sacrifices

The last thing on our house/moving checklist was to buy our sofa, chair, and ottoman. Unfortunately, because the Army couldn't decide whether they would pay to ship anything for us, I had to wait up until this week to look for all of it. I didn't want to buy more furniture if it was going to cost twice as much to ship it to Hawaii. Literally just this past week, I got the travel authorization orders and go ahead for the HHG shipment. Anyone who has done furniture shopping knows that unless you buy the furniture off the floor, getting a couch, chair, and ottoman made and delivered in 3 weeks is impossible. After going to multiple furniture stores today, I just affirmed that. So we tried one last place, The Dump. They buy out furniture from major furniture stores (Ashley, Broyhill, etc.) that wasn't sold in time and then sell it themselves. I knew that it was either looking there or buying our furniture in Hawaii and sitting on the living room floor for a month and a half or more. Well, sure enough, I found something similar to what I was looking for. It's not as attractive as I had planned. A lot less modern, a lot less sleek, and a lot less chic, but when I saw the price tag, I knew it was time for me to sacrifice a little bit of design beauty for our bank account. The gorgeous couch, chair, and ottoman I had picked out made by Rowe was $1999. This sofa and ottoman was on sale for $754 all together. After tax, we saved about $1200. I managed to also have a breakdown in the middle of furniture store. I stared at the set for like fifteen minutes, just wishing that I could call my husband and ask him whether he'd want us to get a not-as-pretty sofa for much cheaper, or whether he'd want us to find the perfect one for a lot more. My husband always likes for us to have the best we can, just because he never had amazing things growing up. So based on that, I wouldn't have gotten this set, but based on it being $1200 and us starting our new life together with new expenses, I knew it was the best decision. Of course, thinking about the fact that it was impossible to call him, and that it was impossible to have his input, just upset me. It reminded me how far away he is, and how alone I feel sometimes. I feel so much pressure to make all of the right decisions for our life, too. I want it all to be so perfect for him. Hopefully I can use my design skills to dress this set up and make them a little more chic to fit in with the rest of the living room.

The couch I picked out made by Rowe, that I was getting until today.

Matching chair and ottoman, entire set (couch and this) $1999

What I got today for $791

I'll make it work!

Inside Out

Today was the longest day ever, but the best day ever. I had my Senior Seminary Conference today, during which all of the Senior English majors (like 30-ish of us) read their final papers. I was #3, so thankfully I got mine out of the way early. One of the hardest professors at _________, who I had one class with my Junior Year, said my paper was "really good." It's very hard to get even an "it was okay" out of him when it comes to a paper, so I'm thinking based on that, I did very well! I only had to drink one large french vanilla cappuccino and two 16 oz. Redbulls and literally not go to bed last night. Needless to say, when I went to the bathroom on a break during the conference, I noticed my underwear were on inside out. Yes, that bad. But, my amazing husband got back to the FOB today after 17 long days outside the wire with zero communication. They got attacked, so it took them an extra three days to get back. I'm really not happy with my husband's unit being the closest one to Pakistan, now that we've done pissed them off. We only have a few more months, and I was praying they'd be relatively quiet with the approaching snow. Thanks a lot to whomever has ruined that possibility.

I was planning on writing a little while, but I literally just (finally) hit the wall and can barely keep my eyes open.

To be continued....

Okay, so now that it's 7:02PM the following day, I have no idea what I was going to talk about. But this is what I'd talk about as of right now. Today, my parents brought the truck to my apartment and took home my big items from my apartment (furniture, storage bins, etc.). Then we ate at a local restaurant down the road seeing as it was 25 cent wing day. (I just noticed there's no cent button on the keyboard--weird). Now, my room looks pretty bare, but I'm excited because that means I'm so close to moving out of here, and one step away from moving to Hawaii.

Now that David is back and could approve the bedroom set I found for us, I can get our furniture for our house! I'm so excited. This is the bedroom set I picked out:

I'm obsessed! It's so warm and beach-cottagey, but with a modern, clean feel. Perfect for my "Modern + Organic" design style. I also found my living room tables. I couldn't find any sofas and chair/ottomans that I loved, so still searching for those.

Due tomorrow by midnight is the first of my two 100+ page papers. I will be starting that as soon as I'm finished this blog post! I'm very stressed about getting all of this done, but at the same time, I'm starting to feel the weight slooowwly lifting.

I talked to David about the Masters thing, and it's a go! So, I will be applying to Liberty University's On-line Masters of Education in School Counseling Program. Aaaah.

So, that's where life is for me this weekend. I doubt I'll blog again until this coming weekend because my life will be INSANE.