With the turning of the calendar page, I started to realize that we would soon be moving into our new place - and that meant I was within legal limits for "nesting shopping".
Here's my logic: We have our first house guests coming in late September - just weeks after our stuff arrives. Now, I've mentioned before that our little place is not air conditioned, so suddenly it occurred to me that - for the sake of the comfort and well being of our guests - I should make sure we had summer bedding in the guest room, in case of a heat spell.
It was pure kismet that this realization struck me just HOURS before Hubbalicious mentioned to me over dinner that I was going to have to start thinking about the colors I wanted the painters to paint the apartment soon (this is typical in Germany, you must paint an apartment once during your tenure there - either at move in, or move out. Military pays for the move IN costs...so this is a no-brainer for us).
Well any sane person (okay, any sane woman) will agree that new paint and new bedding must be coordinated! And while Hubbs and I received lovely new bedding as wedding gifts for our Master Bedroom - we kind of relegated all of our "pre-marriage" bedding to the guest room... Clearly you sane people (women) will agree that the Universe was sending me a message!!! and who am I to ignore the speaking Universe?? I mean really!!
Now, German beds are not sized in the same manner that US beds are -so there's no quick trip to Bed, Bath and Beyond to answer the call of the Universe. This took research. There was Googling involved. Lots of Googling.... (By the by, Pottery Barn has this really cool tool that allows you to mock up a bed, customize a wall with paint color and match the bedding to it - really fun!! Also - Sherwin Williams.com lets you play with paint colors and coordinating trim in mocked up rooms - or upload your own pictures of your rooms and do the same....)
So - I have spent the better part of two days contemplating, envisioning, searching for and subsequently purchasing new sheets, comforter (for the winter cold), duvet cover, shams, and coverlet (for the summer warmth) for our new place. What a sense of accomplishment :) Now I wait to see if the stuff is going to work when it arrives...ah the agony and ecstasy of online shopping!
You may be wondering what Hubbz was doing as I shopped and contemplated and hemmed and hawed.... I asked him if he wanted to weigh in - and he did a little - but then realized that he didn't really want to get deep into a discussion about shades of blue and summer v. winter bed linens. Ultimately he did a lot of the slow head shake (you know the scene: the eyes closed, half smile, slow shake of the head that indicates "I don't know how this action is executable by any rational human, but you're MY human, so I'm going to be quiet and let you be crazy"). So, he did the head shake and smiled and sweetly input all of the charges into our money management system. You gotta love a guy who knows when to let it roll....
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