Here we are in Seattle—in our super-cool, new apartment and no furniture or stuff. Robert’s was supposed to be here today, but now they are saying another week – UGH! Mine probably won’t arrive until Thursday. C’est la vie.

Last Friday was our first whole day in Seattle and we decided we needed to do a little stocking up. So we went to Ikea and spent a whopping $30 on plastic plates, cheap silverware, and a couple of pots & pans. Ikea can be great for those things! We also bought some new wine glasses since I had broken most of mine, and Robert sold his, for all the wine we purchased – LOL. Then we stopped at Walmart for a dust broom for the floors and some other sundries, and finally to QFC, a grocery store, for some food.

For dinner Robert made stirfry with shrimp and lobster tails (which had been on sale for $5 at QFC!) YUMMY! And then we crashed. For breakfast it was shrimp and grits—man I love having someone around who loves to cook! I think I might have to keep him. =)

Saturday morning we got up early so we could hit Pike’s Market when it opened to try and avoid some of the rush. (Who am I kidding, on a weekend its always busy – lol.) We bought flowers for the livingroom (aka Kitchen at the moment) and a $3 bouquet of Sweet Peas that smell wonderful in the bathroom! Then on to fresh veggies—new sweet peas in the shell, asparagus, some okra, a champagne mango, and fresh basil. We also picked up 2 dungeoness crabs to celebrate getting here, and then some really fabulous handmade orzo pasta.

After walking back home to drop everything off, we headed back out to the AT&T store to get phone numbers changed, and then we headed over to Macy’s to wander around and look at furnishings & linens and things. We will probably need to get a few more things for the apartment furniture-wise, and I was trying to gauge what kind of styles Robert likes. You know how I like my colors, and I have never had to make sure someone else liked what I bought, because it was always for me. So this decorating with someone else thing is new for me and I have a feeling it will be a little challenging. I’ll have to keep ya’ll posted on future purchases. LOL

One thing we did get this weekend was a new bed. We are sleeping on my 6-year old blowup mattress and I think I have finally gotten the last out of the $100 I spent on it. It has a slow leak and has become the most uncomfortable thing to sleep on. So I had mentioned that maybe we would want to look at buying a bed, because I wasn’t going to make it til Thursday waiting for a good nights sleep. So after pricing mattresses at Macy’s, Robert wheeled and dealed us a fabulous discount on a new mattress, to be delivered on Monday. So then we went back out to Ikea and bought a $500 platform bed that Robert had the fun of putting together all day on Sunday.

That was the weekend – we walked our butts off and got some supplies stocked up. Now back to work on Monday!