ryan l.

There’s not a whole lot I feel like I do well, but one thing that I’ve done a lot is pack and move. It’s a pain in the ass that most of us have to endure at least a handful of times in our lives, but for me and Bryn, well, it seems like an annual activity. That time came about two weeks ago and today we finally finished unpacking and setting up. For us, the end product is quite pleasing and mostly a relief.

That’s just the living room, one that is almost as big as our last apartment, or at least it feels that way. This place is much more spacious than our last and a major step up. Of course, big steps up also bring my bank account to tears once a month, but that’s ok because it’s certainly worth it to have such a nice place to come home to every day, even if it’s in sweltering Dublin.

We’ve had the apartment in pretty good shape now for more than a week, but we were missing one thing: our new bed set. Apparently, the shipping company thought it would be funny to hold our merchandise for well over two weeks without so much as a call to schedule the delivery. It took my pushiness to finally open the lines of communications and even then it still took them about four days to get our stuff to us. Naturally, everything came on a day we had plans in the evening, so we felt a little rushed to set up things. But, we got it together in time to get out of here on time … except we had one problem - the mirror was broken. Awesome. After nice lengthy calls to both the shipping company and JC Penny, our new mirror was ordered, but who knows when it will arrive. Oh well, we wait.

Tonight we have Bryn’s mom, dad, and brother coming over for Father’s Day dinner. Should be fun provided some things happen and others don’t. I’ll just leave it at that.