BIG BOX.

Seriously, if furniture companies make boxes this big, why don't they just put everything in a box?  Couches, kitchen tables, beds... ya know??? I was pleasantly surprised to come home to this monster last night, and feeling even more pleasant about the fact that I didn't have to try and figure out how to fit it in the elevator.

It only took about 15 minutes of struggling to create THIS!

apartment continued...

So, then I bought a bed.

 

I did make sure to have a fully stocked kitchen though.  I could hardly fit my mom in the car during our 2 day trip to Chicago but I made room for my Le Cruset and my KitchenAid Mixer.

full circle...

The third blog post I ever wrote was about tater tot hot dish and last week...I made it.

I'm working in Chicago for Rosie O'Donnell's new talk show.  I volunteered to make a hot casserole for a comedy bit we tried out last week.  That's $40 worth of beef and tots right there.  I stayed up until midnight working on that beauty.  It weighed 60 lbs and I almost dropped it twice. It even made it on stage...and the tin foil was never even lifted off the top.

It could have been filled with gummy worms and no one would have known the difference.

We'll start with an apartment update...

I realize that I don't ever blog and I have no excuse.  Wait, yes I do...I work from 9am-9pm every single day and when I get home I eat, drink and go to bed.  It's really quite depressing. I will say I am FINALLY, after almost 4 months, getting excited about the way my apartment is looking. Partly due to ordering things online at night while tipsy. I'll show you in "progress posts" because that's what my co-worker Tenneil said I should do and that sounds like fun, right?

Here is my apartment the day I moved in.

Here's my door.  In my spare time, I construct things.

Stay tuned...