Wow.... My new furniture arrived yesterday, and I don't think I'm exaggerating to tell you I nearly died almost 6 times attempting to move it. The "mover" showed up and was 65 years old and chain-smoking, with the voice of a robot. He took one look at the packages, then one look at the stairs, and coughed out fifteen or so curses before hacking up an explanation of how I had to be on crack if I expected him to help move stuff.

[Into the abyss... 4 flights, broken down into 8 sets of 8 to 10 steps.]

[I paused for a breather about halfway up with the foot board.]

I wish I was in some of these pictures to show you the scale. But alas it was just me so the self portraits were tough. This is for a king size mattress though. So the foot board is over 6' long and was a bout 3.5 feet high.

[Ahh... the easy part.]

This was one of the dressers. Only 136lbs. each, which was considerably lighter than the foot board, but these were still pretty unwieldy.

[By this point I had gone delusional and thought the dresser was breaking in to rob me.]

[I feel like I look. Except much, much worse (better?).]

[So I've moved all the junk out of my bedroom... and now the main room looks like this.]

[But the bedroom is taking shape. It's clean anyway.]

[The first signs of progress!!!]

That's still my old desk, but it's all cleaned up and ready for use. I like having that extra little dresser under the desk because I can hide all the cords and other computer nonsense behind it. I have to thank H.D. for her sage-like wisdom in conjuring that idea. The most kick-ass whiskey bottle you will ever see sits between the monitors, in full samurai armour.

The rest of the day was spent unpacking and carrying masses of Styrofoam and cardboard out to the dumpster. I hope to get most of the stuff set up today, and I'll try to get a picture on here once I do. Believe you me, when you see the size of the headboard you are going to be in awe. I'm pretty sure I over did it, but hey, it's a master bedroom... what's more important than the bed?

This is the bed I decided on. This is going to either work real well or not at all. We won't know for sure until the end, but once the bed is in place, well that's when this decorating aventure will really get interesting.

What's the Opposite of Progress?

I don't know the word for it, but I've got a perfect example...

[Still living like a squatter.]

[But now I have this behemoth delivered to take up yet another room.]

[It's barely noticeable really.]

Now the obvious question is why don't I just put the giant mattress in my bedroom and sleep on it. And the obvious answer is this thing weighs about 500lbs. I carried it up the stairs (yes my stairs, the 5 flights of stairs) by myself and couldn't carry it another inch after that. So there it sits. Ready to disrupt my life until the frame is delivered. Which is the other reason I don't move it into my room yet. I'll just have to move it out again to set up the frame, and then back in. That's approximately 1000lbs of moving that I don't want to do.

So here we are, at an impasse... me not wanting to move the mattress, and the mattress not wanting to be moved. Who will win this stubborn battle of wits? Do I have the greater patience, or does the mattress? We may never know for sure.

But we do know for sure is that I am just now realizing that the bed frame, with two dressers, is arriving via UPS. I thought it was being delivered. But no... it's coming via UPS. Have you had the realization of why this is a monumental detail yet?

As I mentioned earlier, I live on the 5th floor. UPS delivers to the 1st floor.

Ouch.

My New Bedframe??!?

Synthetic's Room Revamp Continued...

Well.... I'm not sure how this is possible, but I seem to actually be moving backward in my progression toward a civilized bedroom.

Not only is there a bunch of random junk all over the place now, but....

Now there is even more cable... But that's not even the worst part. This is the worst part is:

My new bed. What can I say, I like to live like a king. Anyway... this should be temporary. I'm ordering a new bed tomorrow. Hopefully it can be delivered in less than a month.

I'll post the one I am leaning toward tomorrow. Again I wish I had a before picture to show the filthy white carpet and streaked manila walls. Seeing that makes it look like I've at least done something other than pile junk in the room.