{weekly to do list}

i really wish this was the tah-dah! list because i'd rather show than tell about what i plan to do in the next week. you'll notice this list is full of the word 'order'. that's because if i don't order a few things in advance i'll be hot mess when i get over there and realize how dumb i was to think that i could go power shopping the day i arrive after flying and transferring and sitting in airports for 18 hours. plus lists are good. sometimes showing this stuff to the world helps because it gets our butts in gear. so please excuse me for a moment while i bore you to tears. see those sharpened pencils on your desk? you may enjoy stabbing yourself in the eyes with them vs. read this petty mundaneness. Mundane with an ity is my new hollyword. you like? Feel free to use it. No need to link back. Free word day! It's my contribution to the already horrible american english language that i regularly help support. just don't say i don't give back. 1. order wallpaper for bathroom and kitchen because if i don't order it now, shipping to germany will no doubt kill me. you have to drive down to some tax office and pay taxes on stuff that is sent from anywhere outside of germany. i order foreign goods on a weekly basis and i've never paid a single tax on anything. technically this law exists in america but i don't think the little guy has to worry about it. maybe stores ordering crates? i digress... 2. order shower curtain. because i can never find ones in germany that are even remotely attractive. most are vinyl or vinyl-esque. and orange. or blue. or they have sunflowers on them. what is with germans and sunflowers? thankfully i see less and less of them as i return each year. i hope they get a new flower as a motif. i would prefer anything really over a sunflower. 3. order mattress. and pray that one mattress arrives vs. two twins. in germany, it's common for couples to have two twins on a frame. i'm sorry, but this is quite awful. who decided this to be the national standard? sleeping on a twin bed, even if it's directly against another twin bed with only a hairline crack separating you from your lover, feels cold to me. i complain about this often, as all the hotels i've stayed in over the years there had these giant beds with two mattresses. my husband would be on his and i'd be on mine. a crack down the middle. a dividing line i guess. that is your side over there and here, well here is my side. this isn't the 1950's. couples don't sleep in twin beds in the same room? crushing them together doesn't erase the fact that they are still separate beds. who invented this idea anyway? this way of sleeping only benefits some cheater who leaves in the middle of the night who doesn't want his wife to 'feel' him rising from the bed. or some one night stander who wants to slip away in silence. maybe those guys dig the two mattress thing. but it feels lonely to me. there is something comforting about feeling someone over there that makes sleeping with a person so nice in the first place. when the mattress moves a little as he rolls over, there is peace in that. a sense of protection. you get none of this on a twin. 4. order a phone (amazon.de). 5. order at least one pendant light so i can see what i'm doing the first night i'm in my apartment! 6. decide what i will take with me, like prints and photos and such that i plan to hang. i have lots of etsy art that i've been saving so i have to decide what i'll pack. i think this will be the most affordable way to adorn the walls for down. etsy prints in ikea frames, baby! but serious... what is up with the dual twin bed action?