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?