Moving to Mt Vernon Triangle

Stardate 66042

14:49 - Recently, I moved from Southwest DC to Mt Vernon Triangle. I wanted to plant some roots in a place where I could decorate and have my own furniture. It has been exhausting to move, but I have somewhere I call home. This post will be all about pictures.

 I made this bed from two Ikea shelves. Ikea will be a running theme in my new place.  I have never been to Ikea before this year, but now I have a mini temple to it. Well, this bed offers a ton of storage. I ended up getting really cute purple storage bins to put in the shelves to hold my clothes.

 Those are my Ikea curtains. I had to hem them myself. I did not realize how long 96 inches is. I will give you a hint, more than 6 feet. Also, I just cut the curtains and hot glued the edges.

I bought a small desk. All of my other desks were just holding places for paperwork. So I decided not to give clutter a space in my room.

These Ikea wall shelves were crazy to put up. They were worth it though. The hold all of my memorabilia and some fancy things. I now have a vase with flowers in an attempt to have nice things. They are fake to make sure they last.

This bit took some time. I have a bunch of currency from around the world, mainly the places I have been. I have wanted to display instead of keeping it in a jar. So I got my hot glue gun out and started arranging.

Fourth of July, 2012

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Stardate 65975.7 

08:49 - Last night was our country's birthday. Being my first time in DC, I wanted to celebrate it well. There is something about being in the nation's capital that makes you feel a bit more patriotic and altruistic about our country.  I blame all of the amazing monuments. Well, the National Park Service (an underrated agency) hosts an amazing fireworks display every year. So we watched the fireworks from the roof of Rob's work as they blew up in spectacular form. It is about a twenty minute show that absolutely lights up DC. It is like nothing else in the world. You get to see the colors illuminating the Washington Memorial. People come from miles away just to catch a glimpse. The fireworks are huge and worth the wait to see. After the main show, all the neighborhood shows start. From the roof we got to see the perimeter of DC light up as well. It seemed like we were inside an amazing ring of fire.