Sleeping late and productivity

So I slept super late again and was totally bummed by the time Dave got home from work.  I felt lazy and completely unproductive as I sat on my couch watching, Say Yes to the Dress.  I barely even like that show.  Earlier this morning, I awoke before Dave utterly exhausted but was only able to fall asleep again just after he left for work.  Personally I think that's the reason why I sleep in so late; it's like my body feels the need for another 3 or 4 hour sleep cycle rather than just an extra hour or so.  At least, that seems to be the overwhelming correlation. If I wake up too early then I somehow end up sleeping way late. 

 Noticing how bummed I was Dave came home and we wrestled/snuggled a bit.  No, not in the sexual way but more the way small children do; is that weird?  Anyway, he made a relatively decent argument to my feelings of being lazy and unproductive reminding me that we still had the whole evening and night to do something.  And do something, we did.  First, we went into Allston to take a look at a kitchen table we found and loved on Craiglist. It's almost identical to this:

                           

The major difference is that the top and the center drawer bit are painted black on ours.  That and rather than there being three drawers in the center, there's one on the top and then a small door that opens underneath.  Now, the table shown above can be purchased at IKEA for $179.00.  In fact, Dave and I were seriously considering buying it along with some other furniture.  I've actually driven down to take a look at this exact table multiple times.  We don't have a kitchen table originally because we thought it wouldn't fit in our tiny apartment but I missed having one too much.  However, paying $179.00 was not something I particularly wanted to do.   Instead, we paid $40 for the one we got today and we got two chairs to go along with it.  Sure it has some small signs of wear but aside from that it's perfect.  Plus, it's got wheels making it super easy to move into place!  Needless to say, I've been converted to Craigslist.

Before we brought it home, we stopped at the grocery store and put my shopping list to work.  We even bought a couple of extra items and only went $19 over our original budget.  Once all of it was in the apartment though, I fell again into an unhappy place.  The table didn't quite work where I thought it would and I was super bummed.  So the two of us began apartment working again.  Dave brought home a table from his work that we were hoping to maybe use as a replacement desk, however putting it together proved to be quite a cumbersome ordeal.  When we finally managed it we realized that we hated it, took it apart, and place it outside near our trash.  Hopefully one of our fellow apartmenters will pick it up like they did with our filing cabinet.

With the table now out, I decide that the desk that we had would just have to do.  But I didn't particularly like that it seemed overloaded with both Dave's and my computers.  We had the monitors as well as the actually computers on top of it and it just seemed totally cluttered.  Our arrangement didn't really give us the option to place them on the floor in Dave's standards.  So, once again at almost 11pm we decided it was time to rearrange our furniture (seriously, thank god we live on the bottom floor).  We unhooked both computers and began moving things around.  Our final arrangement is so much better and it gave us a place to put our printer and the new table we brought home.  Dave also let me hook up both computers and the printer making me feel less helpless when it comes to all things technical.

You would think that with our new layout nicely settled and it being just after midnight, I'd be satisfied enough to go to bed but I totally wasn't.  I had originally intended to make some staple dishes when we got home and I wasn't going to bed without them.  Dave and I have this horrible tendency to buy food with the intentions of doing something with it but then we don't result in the food going bad and us having to throw it away.  I am determined not to let that happen again.  In the end, I made Dave cut the watermelon and place the small bits into a container while I baked the cake for the truffle and cook the pasta for the pasta salad.  Then we combined our forces slicing and dicing the fruits and vegetables for each.  Now, we have a large pasta salad, watermelon bit, and a fruit and cake truffle in the fridge ready to be eaten.

All and all, it ended up being a very productive day.