My friend Ricki and I assembled all the cabinets. The planner lady didn't trust me when I told her the kitchen in the model felt wrong; there was, as I suspected, another 40 cm for a cabinet. But because of the radiator, doors or drawers wouldn't open there, so I bought a 4th upper cabinet and am committing Frankenkitchen with an open cabinet from the Enhet line. (Also to leave the outlet in that wall accessible. I think it's intended to be for a dishwasher, but I have no idea how you'd fit one there. See: radiator, door. Unless they want you to put a minifridge in? fuck that, I need a real fridge.) They also sent one extra of the 20 cm drawer fronts, instead of 2x10cm, so I had to exchange that.

(I went to IKEA 6 times in the last week, I think. I am SO done.)

My cute, retro-look fridge was delivered, and I got it plugged in and running. It's 144 cm tall (shorter than me, slightly) and has a top freezer with a door rather than the more typical bottom drawer freezer. I don't like them! It's hard to put cookie sheets or any sort of baking thing I need to freeze first in them.

I also installed clip-on blinds in the large, south-facing windows. We're not allowed to drill in the window frames, but they sell blinds that attach with clips that go over the top and bottom of the frame, so I got a few of those.

Saturday, Ricki and 2 derby friends came over and built my bed and desk, and after they had to leave, Ricki and I built the last 2 pieces of furniture. So I'll be able to occupy the place once the kitchen is installed (after I get back from the US).

Today I went over to the new apartment to break down the assload of boxes into smaller pieces that will fit in the mailbox-sized paper bin (they open to a vault below the street; I have no idea how that works). A lot of the previous boxes only got sort-of broken down, and I own a box cutter (more like a craft knife, really, and I didn't think about it until this morning, of course; having it over there for the last week would have made my life easier). So they're currently stacked up in my new apartment waiting to be taken down at some point when the vault has been emptied. (I think I filled it a lot.)

The main reason I went over was to meet with a guy from TaskRabbit to get an estimate on the kitchen install. He thinks it'll be a full day's work :| but I have no confidence in my ability to do it correctly myself, so I'll happily pay someone to do it for me. (I'm not even thinking about moving again for at least 5 years, if not 10. Moving is a huge pain in the ass.) And since I was paying him for an hour's work for just the consultation, he connected the one lamp I have installed.

The movers are coming July 11; I will probably spend the entire previous week (except when I'm at the new place waiting on the kitchen) putting everything into boxes. I've already started the task, but it's hard when you're still using a lot of the things.

I have an electricity contract and an internet contract. I'll get more lights and figure out a washer and vacuum when I get back. I have a few washers, vacuums, and toasters faved on Saturn that I can decide on later. Or go look at in person and then decide.

And in 2 days, I go to the US for 3 weeks. This timing is not great!