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Aaaaah, home again. I swear, I'm exhausted. I got eight hours of sleep, I suppose, but my body prefers I start that before 2 a.m.

I'm in the living room, watching baseball with Matt. His team, the A's, are in town playing the Braves. We'll go to tomorrow's game, too, and it'll be the first time seeing his team live in like two years. So it's an exciting weekend. And next week the Diamondbacks play Atlanta so I can see them too.

So, shopping! That's what we did today. We started off at the Steak and Shake for lunch. It's pretty lame burgers, but the shakes are great. And the equivalent I could come up with is like, if Johnny Rockets had a drive through. And was a Denny's half-breed. So... there's nothing really worth driving out of our way to have it again, unless I have a strong and unsatiable craving for a milkshake.

But after that we hit up The Container Store. Which all my friends and family will recall as my favorite store I don't live by. Up until now that is. Really, knowing Atlanta had one made the move a little better. I may have to move all my stuff across country but once I'm there, I can find a smarter way to contain it all. Excitement.

We spent $200 there. On cute caddys to sort bottles under the sink (in green and blue). And on plastic storage drawers to hold all my extra bathroom stuff. Shampoos. Bedhead Shine Spray. All the mascaras. Oh, and hangars, in turquois! And then underbed storage bins.

Oh, and Matt bought me this month's Real Simple. :) He's so cute.

Anyway! We ran all that home, through traffic at 4 p.m. Dropped it off, then ran back to Ikea at Atlantic Station (it's nearby, a http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifreally nice outdoor mall/shopping center).

At Ikea, after much browsing and deliberation, we picked up:

-One blue rug. (To add color to the living room, which I've been filling with neutral colors too much.)
-A new quilt and pretty white duvet cover. It's got a cute floral pattern done in flat and shiny thread, so you can only see it up close and with light... I'm very excited.


And that's all we took home tonight. Tomorrow morning we're having the following delivered:

-Side table.
-Dresser.
-Bed, with a box spring that we got on as-is clearance at a huuuge deal.

So now, like I said, I'm home and tired. Frozen pizza for dinner. I have to go grocery shopping tomorrow, in addition to cleaning and putting things away. And the baseball game. But it should be more fun than not.

If you're wondering- the drive went well. No tickets and the neon was a trooper. The weather was even pretty good, just a teensy bit of rain through Louisiana or so. It was great to see Raf, Leah and the Quattrinis in Houston. We grabbed a hotel room for San Antonio and spent a day- Tuesday, I think- doing the River Walk and the Alamo. Oh my, I was so excited for Matt at the Alamo. I have pictures to prove it, I'll post in a few days. We also spent a whole day at the beach in Galveston, which was perfect, and probably my very favorite part, and then I took Matt to the Space Center at the Lyndon B. Johnson Nasa thing. Also fun.

Aaaaah. That's the day. I'll post pictures next time.

Ace, signing off.