Nebraska

Got a few days off at the end of the month.

Next stop: Omaha

Omaha you ask? This guy and this gal think it’s a great city. I hope to have a great time.

Thrifty Thursday

Thursdays, instead of working during the day I work in the evening. This means that I get to adventure during the day and look for awesome finds like this one I’m SO PUMPED about!

Looking for shelves, I went to our local “creepy” thrift store. I found some runners-up but nothing perfect. Then I ventured over to the “transfer station” otherwise known as the dump. They have a shed (“re-use center”) where people leave stuff in hopes that one man’s trash will become another man’s treasure.

TREASURE INDEED!

Have I built it up enough yet? I thereby present to you:

The Wurlitzer 200!!

All of the keys work and it sounds amazing. I grabbed it assuming it didn’t work and was excited about it for the decor factor. A friend of mine who was at the reuse center the day before said that it wasn’t there Wednesday. Clearly I was in the right place at the right time.

Yeah, that’s a picture reused from Friday’s living room tour. Doug already took it to band practice (before I could get some close ups for the blog) so who knows when I’ll see it again.

He's more excited about it than I am... Photo credit to Adam and instagram

Our friend Adam found one in great condition on ebay for over 2 grand. Ours is pretty banged up but I’m still excited about such an amazing score!

The Big [Living Room] Tour

As part of my effort to get the whole apartment properly documented for my home tour page, I got myself all psyched up this week about my living room–the room I’m proudest of in the whole place. I hope I got you psyched up too, because I really want positive affirmation questions or comments below.  Earlier this week I put you in my Delorean and sent you back a year so you can see where I started. As I said before, a lot of things are the same as they were back then (furniture layout mostly) because it works, and I like it. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?

Unfortunately in this apartment more things are broken than not. But more on that another time…

For now, it’s picture time. The moment you’ve all been waiting for. The moment I’ve been tidying up my living room all week for.  Because I’m running out the door for work (great time management, Stace) I have put it in slideshow format. If you’re curious about anything be sure to put it in the comments and I WILL answer it!

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[Off topic. If that Delorean on ebay is only 9k, WHY don’t I own it?!?!]