The fifth weekend in the house was when I got my promised furniture from my parents:

My inherited secretary (’twas my great-grandmother’s, then my grandmother’s (on my mom’s side, the one I was named for) has been relocated from my parent’s upstairs hallway to my living room, along with a dining chair from the other grandparents, which technically belongs to my aunt, but she hasn’t space for the dining table in her house, so my parents are storing the table and chairs for her… and now I’m storing just one of them as well. I’m going to reupholster it, but keep the old fabric so that she can return it to pristine state, if for some reason she loves ancient gold fabric.

Dante already likes the secretary, but now I keep the doors to it shut.

My guest bedroom now has a bed – the twin bed I got for my tenth birthday and slept in until I bought my current queen bed when I got a real job. I still love that bed, and I’m glad to get to use it in my home. No photos of that room yet, though.

And I have a tv stand, instead of merely an end table with my tv placed on it and DVD and VHS players underneath. A hand-me-down from my amazing parents, this is a fake wood stand with an added shelf created by my dad. I decided to paint it black instead of introducing yet another shade of wood to my living room, which was absolutely the right decision – it looks quite handsome in its corner, and holds my meager DVD collection quite well… along with my still quite vast tape collection. I keep thinking I’ll re-make the mix tapes with mp3s, but even at 99 cents each, it’s about 26 songs for one mix tape, assuming I can even find the songs.

This weekend was also when my dad and I took on the great step-building project – see the soon-to-come front porch post for details on that.