{"id":1321,"date":"2008-10-26T10:08:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T15:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2008-10-26T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T15:08:33","slug":"settling-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2008\/10\/settling-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Settling in"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m getting all settled in to the new place. Comcast came through and installed internet on Wednesday morning, and by Friday I had reverse DNS working and was all geared up to start work again Monday. I took Wednesday through Friday off from work last week for some much needed R&R and adjustment to the new place. I was able to hit Target for all the basics I needed, so I’m doing pretty well on that front. it took ages to finally bring over all my stuff from the house, but I’m just about done now. <\/p>\n

Some photos of the place:<\/p>\n


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A cute kitchen. I was able to squeeze my stuff in it thus far, and have been able to do a bit of cooking. I’ll probably be sad about lack of a dish washer at some point, but I’m just one person, washing dishes for one person isn’t that bad.<\/p>\n


\n\"shower<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I couldn’t resist, I needed a shower curtain for my shower, and when I saw this one it was love at first sight. If i can’t live in a pink castle, I’ll have one in my bathroom! ;)<\/p>\n


\n\"Livingroom<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I set up my desk near my front door, near the cable outlet. I’m not sure how pleased I am with this so far, but I needed to put it in this room and I wasn’t impressed with my other options.<\/p>\n


\n\"Livingroom<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

A TV?! Lyz has a TV? My friend Mike from NJ helped me move and had that spare TV and VCR sitting in his dining room, so he brought it along on moving day. I wasn’t going to accept it, but I do have a bunch of movies (VHS and DVD), and I could use something to hook my PS2 up to (and maybe a Wii at some point!). So yes, I have a TV, but no channels – I have no reception and didn’t pay for cable TV.<\/p>\n


\n\"Bedroom\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Bedroom! And I have a big (not too deep, but the length of the whole room) closet which was behind me when I took this picture. And as I describe below, my bed is now a bit different…<\/p>\n

When I moved in I didn’t have a couch. I ended up moving my bed\/couch futon into the living room to use that as a couch, as seen in the pictures – and bought a mattress and box spring. I didn’t actually intend to buy a mattress when I walked into Sleepy’s<\/a> in Limerick (27 West Ridge Pike, next to the new Acme), I was just going to browse. Upon entering the store I was greeted by Chris Brown, one of their great sales people (friendly, well-dressed, very good at their job), who showed me around and had me try out a bunch of mattresses. Within a half hour I found myself getting a credit check to apply for financing. I started to panic at that point, should I really make such a purchase right now? So much change! So many financial responsibilities suddenly upon me! Noticing my panicking and figurative edging near the door, Chris gave his manager a call to see if he could get me a deal. That’s when when his manger mentioned a floor model of Kingsdown Body Blend Red\/Blue (a mattress they sell for $1699 new) up at the Pottstown store he was trying to get rid of for $350, so rather than going with the lower end new, I went with that floor model. It was delivered yesterday and I slept on it the first time last night and it is, by far, the best mattress I’ve ever owned.<\/p>\n


\n\"Body<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Updated bedroom photo w\/ new mattress:<\/p>\n


\n\"Caligula<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Woo a grown-up bed!! So now I have a couch too, which is easily changed into a comfy guest bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m getting all settled in to the new place. Comcast came through and installed internet on Wednesday morning, and by Friday I had reverse DNS working and was all geared up to start work again Monday. I took Wednesday through Friday off from work last week for some much needed R&R and adjustment to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}