Survivor: DC Edition

While I'm not out in the jungle spearing fish for dinner or building a hut out of trees, I'm doing my own survival training for a big city. Going across the country with 2 suitcases and a duffle bag certainly doesn't make for many belongings here, especially furniture. But my roommate and I are figuring things out.

To the left, you can see the nice little package that our first guests, the IKEA deliverers, brought. Tapping into all those episodes of Trading Spaces/Extreme Home Makeover along with my experiences growing up around engineers and being on the robotics team, I set out to build my bed. And voila, the finished project! Though harder than I thought it would be, I finished it in less than 24 hours. I'll admit that I was a little scared to sit on it at first but it seems sturdy and I'm pretty sure that I did everything correctly.

It's also been an interesting time trying to navigate the city without a car. Although you don't need one 98% of the time, that 2% is reserved when you need to buy large items. However, my roommate and I managed to navigate ourselves to Maryland both yesterday and today for different things. Among my favorite purchases are a cute little tool kit (that I've already put to good use with the bed), our colorful dinnerware set, and this mini shopping cart thing that East Coasters have to transport their groceries to their apartments.

Even though this is only my 3rd day here, I feel like it's been a lot longer since we've been so productive in our apartment. Time flies by fast and I can't believe that school starts in exactly a week. Have to finish with all the major things for the apartment before then!