To Fill In Some Blanks

Okay, I have a lot to post. I am going to break it up into various posts and if those reading my blog make it through my novels, I commend your perseverance. This post will serve to fill in some blanks on some of the more general stuff.

Settling into the apartment has been a step by step process so far. Slowly Sara and I have been chipping away at the various tasks we set before ourselves while doing other things as well. Sara had been working on her final college assignment and I was working on my schoolwork. Sara is now done and my term is over as well. Now she has set along to work on her novel and go through her Brit trip pictures while also job searching. I am doing job searching, planning for NaNoWriMo this coming year and trying to get my life into order. So, yeah, in between all of this...making our apartment home has been a long art project.

I like some of the small habits we have gotten into already. Her sister Heidi gave her/us a magnetic calendar with a separate weekly planner. We are using the monthly calender to generalize our plans so we might know what the other is up to. The weekly planner we are using for meal plans. Meal planning has not been a thing I've ever done in a living situation. I really quite like it. It was something I admired that Niel and Julie did at their house, and so easily it is a habit we form in our new place together. This situation keeps proving to have been formed for us by a great and loving father. =]

I have been feeling under the weather for a while now. I think the stress I've put my body under is finally catching up to me. I like to do more than my body can take and then I pay for it later. So my room is going to have to stay a pit for now. The rest of the apartment is coming together though. Our kitchen is pretty well stocked with food and kitchen wares. As a cook I'm glad of this. Next goal, teach Sara how to cook. =] We are thinking of themes for decorations. Our walls will definitely be unique. We are going to decorate our living room with travel themed pictures and posters. Our dining room with pirate themed decorations. Our hallway will house pictures of our family members, Our office with music and literature references and our bedrooms will house the rest of our decorations. No place will rival our awesome decorations. We want to paint our dining room table with a compass rose and somehow find a way to paint the chairs to fit in =]

Now, if you have made it this far...here is a question for you. I'll begin with an explanation first. Sara and I want to have a house-warming party. We do not expect gifts from anyone, but we also know that some people will want to get us gifts. Is it tacky to ask for gift cards instead of gifts? We want to do this because we already have a lot of the necessities to start a household. Right now we are saving up to get me a bed and then get bookshelves for our "library." We would like to ask for gift cards to Ikea and Target, but are unsure of how tacky that would be. Opinions? Please be honest. =]

thanks for reading, and now onto my next post =]