Transitioning

[stgulik]

The first manic throes of empty nest syndrome are over. Fortunately (or unfortunately?) a mild yet sticky cold slowed me down for a week, and now I'm thinking a little more calmly.

We are closer to turning my daughter's old room into a proper guest bedroom, free from teenage girl clutter. We'll store boxes of books, piano music, posters and stuffed animals in the garage. She wants them, but she has no room for them right now, so into storage they go! Then we'll pull in a wooden bedstead we've owned for years. It was part of a set my groom's grandmother bequeathed him. It will be nice to set it up again.

The other pieces from Grandma's set are in our own bedroom and in active use. But we own a small dresser that we bought way back when I was a jr. sub-assistant manager at Montgomery Ward. It matches the style and will be perfect size. Right now it sits next to Groom's desk in his den, which is not the best place for it because it's half-filled with my quilting projects. I will have to find a new home for those projects in the future, preferably before we have actual guests. (Oh, also, we'll have to buy a full-size mattress and box spring before we have guests. Oy!)

After the dresser is moved out of the groom's den, he intends to move (from the garage) a bookshelf that's been in his family for years. It was built by his father and grandpa, and has great sentimental value, as do the books that are usually arrayed on it. When everything is finally installed where it should be, Groom will be a happy man and the garage will be that much more uncluttered--except for my daughter's boxes. Thus are we squiring furniture, boxes and books from place to place about the house, like a slow gavotte.

In other news, I bought a tiny, second-hand espresso machine at a yard sale. It's darling. I kind of want to name it, but I know that's just a symptom. Anyway, I know nothing about espresso-making. Do you buy special beans? Special grind? The instruction manual is somewhat vague.

Comments

[bonsaibetz.livejournal.com]

I used to be a super coffee-aholic. I used to make Turkish coffee, which makes espresso taste like weak swill.

For espresso, you want a very fine grind. There is a grind specifically for espresso,, which I used for Turkish coffee. The other is because of the nature of espresso, you want a dark roast, because you want that slight bitter to come through. So dark roast, espresso grind. That will take care of your needs.

[kittylefish.livejournal.com]

all the furniture rearranging sounds like fun to me, lol. maybe not the actual dragging it around, but i love that whole making a space new again thing. maybe i need to figure out something to do here in my little apartment.

and i vote for naming the espresso machine because it sounds like fun. :)

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

I think it's more how the espresso is created more than the beans. I would think any dark roast would do.

I hope we will be seeing pics of this lovely transformation. Since I did so much DIY last year I've become horribly nosy about other friends' redecorating.