delivery day

Today all the furniture for which I’ve been waiting arrived. Pictured above is my dining room table (sans leaf) and one of the chairs I bought from Room and Board.

Delivery was not without incident, as one of the deliverymen badly sprained his ankle while trying to bring the chair pictured up my stairs. Despite the injury, he and his partner persevered and got both chairs and the couch into my place. Though the furniture isn’t set up as it ultimately will be, just having it all makes the place feel a lot more like home. And my worries about fitting it through my door were unwarranted, largely thanks to the cleverness of the deliverymen.

After all the furniture arrive, the US Postal Service delivered the baking sheets, drying racks and frying pans I bought from Amazon as well as the photo postcards I'm using to inform the world of my new address. The mailman also brought me my first gas bill, the only downside of the day, but I suppose it's unreasonable to complain about the cost of heat in Minnesota.