Two households, both alike in physical location

[dorchadas]

It's been a while since I posted just about daily happenings.

The biggest news in my life right now is that sashagee is all moved in! We rented a truck on Saturday and, with her parents' help, picked up her heavy furniture pieces and brought them over (we'd already moved most of the smaller stuff during the week). Her bookcase is going to go in between my two bookcases, we turned the futon she was using into a bed back into a couch and put it opposite my couch in the sun nook, her dresser is in the bedroom, and the rest of her stuff is scattered around the living room. We replaced the old, tattered comforter I had on my bed with hers (which has a cover!), added her collection of pillows to my own, and we're currently deciding what to do about her rice cooker. In other words, the normal things that couples who have their own lives do when they move in together. This is the first time for both of us, though--the last time I moved in with someone she was literally just out of college and I wasn't far behind, and sashagee has previously only had people move in with her--so we're negotiating over where everything goes and which things of ours we're going to keep in an environment where we're both used to having our own space. It's a process. We'll both need to let things go that we like, but hopefully not too much--she was renting a room before and I have a two-bedroom condo, so there should be plenty of room for her stuff in here.

Also, we bought a new couch!

I've been wanting to put a smaller couch into the office for a while, since my master plan was to take the TV out of the sun nook, add more chairs there, and turn it into a conversation space while making the office the place we can go to play games or watch movies. And now it's done! It's a little cramped in there, admittedly, but my corner computer desk is off to the right out of frame and there's enough room for sashagee to sit (or lately, lie down) on the couch and play her playstation while I sit at the computer. She convinced her brother to start playing FFXIV with us, so yesterday we spent the morning all on voice chat playing together. It reminded me of those late-night Karazhan runs that were the real reason I stuck with WoW for so long even after the story descended into complete nonsense.

We learned that even though I don't have a PS4, I could still create a Playstation account and use the phone app to connect to voice chat.

I've been in breakfast turmoil for a while. Traditionally I eat Japanese-style breakfast, with salmon, miso soup, pickles, and rice, but for the last couple months sashagee hasn't been able to stand the smell of pickles, fish, or cooking rice, so I've been set adrift. Some days I'll have an omelet and waffles or toast, occasionally I'll just eat a bunch of vegetables, and for one week I had Israeli breakfast, but I'm getting antsy. I need to find something else to eat--maybe a big salad? I do have eggs and nuts and spinach and vegetables, so a big salad with some pita on the side sounds good for today. What I really want is to be able to go back to eating fish again and get all of this frozen fish out of my freezer, but I can't do that until sashagee goes back to work and she's currently not on the schedule. Hopefully she'll be able to go back to work soon, both in the wellness sense and in the given shifts sense.

As I'm writing this winter has truly come to Chicago--big fat fluffy snowflakes are falling outside my windows. It's probably not going to stick, but it's lovely to watch. It's a great start to the week.