Couch & Closet Success!

It is 1AM in California and as usual, I am unable to sleep. Last night, I was up until 4AM with a leg cramp and the night before, I didn't fall asleep until 2 for no reason and then of all things, Mat turning on the bathroom light woke me up. There was a lot more noise in Brooklyn but I somehow slept better. I don't know what that's about. Since there's nothing better to do at this hour, get ready for a really long entry. Fun! Feel free to skip to the pictures.

Yesterday, Mat made up his mind that we were going to find a couch at a furniture store in the valley called Cort Furniture and indeed we did. He said his dad had success with finding one there 15 years ago and as soon as we walked in, we found 3 or so that we were interested in. We almost settled on one when I spotted a lovely muted mustard couch that came with an arm chair for $399! Incredible. The couch only has 2 cushions but they are wide enough to fit 2 people on each one. It is really nice and I am so excited to have found something. I felt like I was living in a storage space rather than a real apartment but now that it is coming together, it is starting to feel like a home. The couch and chair will be delivered Tuesday. A big huge thanks goes to Mat's mom for making our couch buy possible! Xoxo

After the couch was purchased, we went to a mall called the Glendale Galleria. Yes, that's 3 malls in two days. I am apparently on a mall tour of LA. I have to say that this was the malliest mall of all malls. It had a Lids, a Spenser's Gifts, a Claire's Accessories, a Cinnabon, and like 5 different Foot Lockers. I haven't seen a mall so mall-like in years. I just HAD to go into Hot Topic to relive my high school years. Although it still had the red plaid bondage pants and clearance piercings reminiscent of my sophomore year of high school, they were playing rap and sold some Nikki Minaj tees, which I found to be a bit disappointing. Not as "alternative" as I remembered. Whatever sells, I suppose.

There's a Target attached to the mall so we headed in to check out fans and plastic storage bins. Since my closet's built-in storage spaces are too high for me to reach and we aren't focusing on the closets yet, I decided that something needed to be done. I was sick of pulling my clothes out of ripped cardboard boxes in my living room. We picked up a couple of cheap sets of shelving and a college dorm Tupperware set of 3 plastic drawers. I managed to fit everything in my closet just from the shelves and drawers, even my unnecessarily large bag collection. Now I'm wondering if we even need a $2,000 closet setup. Maybe one more set of cheap shelves and a stepping stool and I'd be set. We will see. I'm just excited to have a couch-ready living room.

We also stopped by Petco to get the cats an enormous scratching tower. We want to give them something to scratch and climb on that isn't our couch. They are spoiled rotten. We also got them this incredibly ridiculous thing called a Cat Sack, which they were not as excited about. It's essentially just a crinkly bag for cats to crawl in. If you'd like to see it in action, look for the HSN sales pitch for it on Youtube. The most fantastic thing about it is that it is being sold by Mike Rowe of Discovery Channel's hit show, "Dirty Jobs." It is hilarious.

We met our new next door neighbors who just moved in yesterday and they are super nice. We saw what their apartment looked like and it's really cool. I might have to steal their Ikea lighting idea since California apartments don't often come with built-in ceiling lights for some inconvenient reason that I don't understand. At least we have them in the bedroom.

All in all, it was a very successful day, minus the fact that at the mall, I saw this adorable puppy and went to pet it. The woman put another puppy in my arms and told me it was $50. I literally started freaking out. We aren't allowed to have dogs in our apartment and God only knows where that dog came from or what could be wrong with it but it was just the cutest thing. It looked like it was only 6-weeks old and possibly a yellow lab mix, which is what I really want when we are ready for a dog. I thought I was going to cry when we had to say no. Also, I found out that season 5 is the last season of Breaking Bad and it is going to be split up and only 8 episodes are airing this year. Talk about a horrible disappointment. Now we REALLY have no need for a TV.

Well, I'd better get some sleep. I will be ignoring my painful butt bruises from my bike trip and riding over to the DMV for a California ID. Fun! Have a great night (or morning for all of you in New York).

Here is a picture of our couch and a picture of the SOLD sign we excitedly got to see them put on the tag.