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Ok, no more spending for me until I pay off some bills, but Kane’s had a really good deal on the bedroom set that I’ve been wanting and after seeing their latest ad in the paper, I finally caved. It took a little haggling to get what I wanted and I ultimately ended up spending a little more than I had planned, but in my defense they are some really nice pieces and my bedroom could use some sprucing up!

Plus, who can really argue when they’re offering no interest, no payments until 2008?! 😉

So now I’m pondering whether or not I should go ahead and re-paint the bedroom to a shade of green that will better compliment all of my new additions. The furniture is all palm / bamboo / wicker-type stuff (tropical styles) that will go great with my new comforter, but it might just make the blue walls even more out of place … which kinda sucks because I really do like the color. I think I’ll wait until everything gets delivered next weekend so I can see if I can bring it together simply by adding a couple of plants with really big, green fronds, or if I’m going to have to dedicate another weekend to painting all over again.

The old me wouldn’t really care, but then again, the old me wouldn’t have just gone out and spent that kind of money on decorative furniture, either! I guess if I’m going to be here for another year or two before I can buy a house, I might as well be comfortable…

So I don’t know exactly why, but for some reason I’ve taken up a bit of an interest in gardening, of all things, lately. I think it started with the idea of finding a few indoor plants to scatter throughout the house because they seem to make the room feel a little more “air-y” (for lack of a better term), but over the past week or so that plan somehow exploded into my undertaking the project of converting my balcony into something of a tropical paradise as well. Whereas in my old apartment, I pretty much had room for the table and chairs and a single potted plant, at this point I’ve got more than half a dozen lining just one of the walls and there’s still tons of room to work with. The entire vision will probably take a couple of months to complete because I’m bound to run out of money here eventually (!!!), but it’s a fun little thing to spend some time on here and there that doesn’t involve a computer, so that’s nice… 🙂

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In other news, I went shopping this evening and in addition to the $100+ that I managed to spend on foliage and related products, I also (finally) found a new comforter that didn’t cost me an arm and a leg! A friend at work had scouted out a neat little consignment store in South Tampa called The Missing Piece that deals in “luxury furniture” and the liking. Mentioning that he’d seen a palm-laden comforter in their window display last week, I tried going over the weekend, but they had been closed. Tried again tonight and BINGO – talk about stepping into luck! I ended up finding a very nice king-size comforter with pillow shams and all of that junk for a mere $139 … the sales people said that they had thought the original owners mentioned something about it being a $450 set, so not a bad deal, I don’t think! Mind you, I’m still not entirely sold on the color because it’s a tad darker than I was looking for and it would probably go better with green walls than my freshly-painted blue ones, but Rome wasn’t built in a day. Nonetheless, for all those who have ever hassled me about the damn cloud sheets, you’ll have to find another avenue for your spiteful jeers from here on out! 😛

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I’ll wrap things up this evening with a few pictures of the mild adventures described above. Granted, these aren’t of the best quality because it tends to get dark around here after 11:30pm, but hopefully I’ll be able to include some better shots in with the long-awaited photo tour of my new condo that I hope to finally get around to posting this weekend! Enjoy… Continue reading →