Miss Independent

Times like today are where being an independent woman could get me in trouble. LOL My desk was finally delivered this morning. Unfortunately, due to its size, the delivery guy wouldn’t bring it up to my apartment (on the 3rd floor). He delivered it to my garage, leaving ME to find a way to get the monstrosity up to my apartment.

My sister is coming up this weekend to help me put the desk together (and I’m assuming do some shopping too). I could have left the desk in the garage until Friday nite or Saturday morning and brought it up with her help. But noooooo. I didn’t want to leave it in the garage that long. So I decided to bring it up on my lunch break. Due to the size of the box (look over to the left … and YES, it is a filthy box) which I believe is larger than my kitchen table (or pretty damn close) … I decided to bring it up in pieces. I brought up the biggest/heaviest pieces to make the box a more manageable weight. When I thought I had it down to a manageable weight, I decided to drag the box in. Well … I figured a little wrong. I should have taken out a few more pieces before trying to bring up the box. Have you seen the episode of Big Bang Theory where the guys bring her furniture to her apartment? I had that thought when I got to the steps. LOL But I got it up.

It doesn’t look too scary for putting it together. There aren’t as many pieces as I thought there might be (check out the image to the left). And unlike the shelf I bought recently, it’s put together with actual metal hardware. The shelf is held together with plastic hardware. I’d put it together myself tonite, but I know it would be too heavy for me to move around by myself. So for that, I’ll actually wait for when my sister is here, and she can help me (if she’s recovered from her 8 games of bowling by then). But I am going to put together the drawers tonite. Those can be put together separately from the rest of the desk, and they’re small. They won’t take up too much space once they’re put together. I believe there are 2 small and 1 big drawer.

And to think … it’s gonna end up looking like this …