Wishful Thinking
Ok. So the hallway solution is out. My husband purchased an exercise bike on Monday and it now dominates the hallway--and I wouldn't have been able to find a suspension rod long enough from which to hang the curtain. While I am excited about having workout equipment in my home I'm not so excited about what that means for our sleeping arrangement: we have to make the permanent change I have been dreading.
It is hard to describe the layout of our apartment, as it is with any space converted from an old farmhouse to apartments. In a nut-shell, there are two rooms other than the kitchen and bathroom that can function as either as a bedroom or a living room. One is 25x10 the other is an asymmetrically shaped (there's a curved wall) 10x13. We chose the 25x10 for our bedroom, since when we moved in the previous tenants left a couch in the 10x13 room. Currently our bed is at one end and Sophia's nursery at the other, divided by a few folding screens. The solution that I have been thinking about (and dreading) for quite a while is the idea of moving Sophia's stuff into what was the living room and everything in the living room (the TV, computer, desk, couch and bookshelves: the things we use late at night when she is already in bed) into "her" end of the bedroom. I would post pictures, but I don't want to expose you to the awful wallpaper, curtains and carpet that are such permanent part of this apartment. That would be cruel.
You might think, "Why didn't we do this earlier?" Well, truthfully, I've put it off thinking: next month things will be different, maybe we'll find another apartment. I told myself I didn't want to make the effort of taking the crib apart and finagling the sofa through three successive, very narrow, doorways (last time we got tried to get a couch through those doors both the couch and this house did not fair well).
It was wishful thinking, the truth is, until we get rid of our house in Phoenix, we won't be going anywhere. So it's time. It's the only way I'm going to get any sleep and after last night I'm thinking I might just do it today.
