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I am BEYOND excited!!!

My mom and I, although mostly I, have set out to redo (or something) my room. For the last 4 years while I was away at SMC, my mother turned my room into her own personal storage. This made for not very fun living quarters for me when I was home. Yuck.

Finally, after WEEKS of digging through stuff to get to my bed, we finally cleared a lot of it out and cleaned. Granted, there is still some of my junk to deal with in here. But it's mostly taken care of.

The next step was to get the appropriate furniture. Tonight, I finally reeled Smiley in to help me get my mom's desk from storage that is now mine, apparently she got it in high school--pretty snazzy. He helped me move out the crappy, old bookcases. And he helped me get the beautiful, old, actual antique secretary from my Aunt's house. It belonged to my Great-Grandma Deeter (dad's side), who must've given it to Aunt Kathy, and she gave it to me. It is gorgeous. When my room is finished, I'll post pictures.

Also, yesterday I went to Anthropologie and got new knobs for my dressers. One dresser is my "baby dresser" that I've had my whole life. The other is a dresser that, I just learned, belonged to my Great-Grandma Flanigan (mom's side), and someone gave it to my dad (weird) to use when my parents got married. Then the rents got new furniture and moved it into my room. I know, two dressers, weird. But the "baby" one is pretty small, although still functional, and the big one doubles as a TV stand.

Anyways, I got new knobs at Anthropologie yesterday. They-Are-Baller. I kid you not. Of the 16 that I had to buy, in total, 12 of them were on clearance for $3 each! The other 4 were $6 each! So it turned out to be like $60. That's WAY cheaper and a much more efficient way of making a room look brand new--instead of buying a new $600 dresser at Crate and Barrel. I also got a new duvet cover (a comforter envelope as we tell my dad) for my bed. I had been sleeping with my twin size blankets from school, but my bed at home is a full size. I had a comforter, but it was yucky and needed a hardcore cleaning (which I did) and a duvet. SWEET!

The last step will be to get the rest of my actual stuff from college out of storage. My parents threw all the stuff from my room at school into our storage unit here, and I haven't had space to unpack any of it until now. Hopefully now I can start bringing it home, box by box. I'm gonna try to get rid of a lot of stuff of course, cuz my room is already pretty full...I'm known for being not only having a ton of crap, but also being a packrat.

Oh, and you know those super cute ladder bookcases (nice versions at Crate and Barrel, and not as nice ones at Target)? My dad is going to MAKE me one!!! Sweet!

Anyways, needless to say, I am INCREDIBLY EXCITED!!! The short version of all of this is that what has been "my room" for the last 4 years is finally turning back into MY room. My goal is to have brought home a good amount and taken care of it by Sunday. Cross you fingers.