One of my favorite things to do is change my apartment. Corey can leave on a Sunday to pick up lunch for the boys and when he comes home, I have switched the tables in the bedroom around. (There are three that move around regularly.) Currently, I really hate the furniture arrangement in the living room, but the size and shape of the room really limits what I can do with furniture that is not really apartment-sized. At 11 PM on Friday night, Murphy and I were sliding everything around the living room in pursuit of a vision, only to determine that the room wasn’t long enough, and we would have to return all the furniture to its original arrangement.
(This means that I also lie in bed at night and envision my things in my house. Some people might think that not knowing what the house you will end up buying will look like limits your vision, but I picture my things in different rooms in different ways in different houses, and I will have a better idea of what I’m looking for in a house when Corey comes home and it’s time to buy one.)
I do not want to change the house too much. Corey comes home on pass at the beginning of March, and I do not want either of us to feel like he doesn’t live here. Unfortunately, one of the things I do in boredom or sadness is decorate. I bought a slipcover for a wingback chair. I moved my lamps around. I changed all the pictures in all the frames. So for this year, I have to figure out how to continue to express myself in my favorite ways while keeping Corey’s home intact.
I do have one home improvement project on the horizon, but I will not be starting on it until after Tiger Day is over and the Mayor’s race is decided, so no sooner than March 6. I inherited a sideboard from my Aunt Soupie that I am absolutely in love with. I know it’s a piece of furniture I’m going to have for my entire life. The color and pulls are not really me. Take a look:
So I am thinking of painting it and replacing the pulls. Someone very chic and genius once told me that designers say every room should have something black in it. Pottery Barn and Ballard Designs both have beautiful black sideboards, so I am thinking about transforming mine into something like this:
My favorite design blogger, Eddie Ross (www.eddieross.com) has modernized a number of old pieces with a good paint job, so I’m going to be inspired by him.
Activity Update: The FRG is actually a monumental undertaking. So many of the soldiers in Corey’s battalion have been realigned to other companies, so my list of soldiers in my company for deployment in no way resembles what the company is going to look like when the soldiers come home and return to their regular training calendar. Corey’s regular company is HHC, but during the deployment, he’s a squad leader in Bravo Company. HHC lost a lot of soldiers to other units, but we gained a good number of soldiers for our unit, which, to add another level of confusion, is called BDOC during deployment. The first major orders of business are to get with the old FRG leader to hand off her materials, raise money to pay for steak dinners for the soldiers during the Superbowl, create a list of spouses and family members for the deployment and reach out to them, and lastly, beef up our FRG fund.
No updates on Corey. They are still preparing for their practice convoys. Today I mailed him some Twizzlers, Happy Colas, Pomegranate Fruit Bars, Kettle Corn and a card.
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