Good morning!

I played Suzy Homemaker all day yesterday and I’m exhausted. Give me a room full of children throwing temper tantrums; I’m much better at navigating my way through that than attempting to feng shui our new apartment. (I even had to Google the term, ‘feng shui,’ to make sure I was spelling it correctly. If I can’t spell it, I certainly can’t DO it).

The movers finally came yesterday so we’ve got a fully furnished apartment. Maybe TOO furnished. This little space can’t hold nearly as much as my old apartment could.

I woke up around 4AM unintentionally. The alarm was set for 5:30, but I was wide awake so I hopped out of bed and started breakfast.

Around 8AM, the movers showed up and started emptying out their massive truck. I didn’t realize how much stuff I had accumulated over the past few years until I saw it sitting out there waiting to be moved into the apartment.

I knew, just from looking at the pile on the street, that there would not be enough room in this apartment for all of my belongings. So, instead of panicking, I calmly turned on my audiobook as I began emptying the contents of each box.

Or, in the words of Jennifer Merz, I had to “KonMari that shit.”

We have very limited counter space. Very limited kitchen space, in general. But it’s also really important for me to be semi-hygienic so, even though there wasn’t much space to do so, I made sure to wash every dish that came out of the boxes. In the process, one of my wine glasses broke.

I wasn’t too sad about it.

In fact, I was pretty ecstatic because it was one less thing that I had to find a place for.

The living room, unlike the kitchen, is HUGE. I feel like it needs to be filled up with more stuff. But I have enough kitchen stuff to remind me that the last thing I need right now is more stuff.

So….should I fill the living room with all my extra kitchen items?

I feel like that’d be really confusing for our visitors if they found a bag of chips under a seat cushion or a crockpot holding up the TV.

In any case, I’m open to suggestions on how to increase storage in a teeny-tiny kitchen. In a way that’s feng-shui-esque.

Ugh. Life was so much simpler when we lived in dorm rooms. Back when all we cared about was having a thumbtack wall so we could show off how popular we were with all our pictures from our disposable cameras.

This is hard work.

If anyone wants to throw some suggestions at me, I’m all ears.

How do I make our apartment bigger and hold more things?

How do I decorate without having to do it myself? 

How do I get rid of these boxes that are all-consuming and seem to multiply when I’m not looking? 

That is all.

G’day.