The minutes passing between now and the wedding are beginning to feel more and more like months! Fortunately, a friend of mine (Schaum) has the next week or so free and he has agreed to spend it on my couch, so I don’t have to be totally alone for the duration. Thank God!

Aside from just unpacking and working on the house (and aside from zoning out with movies or videogames), does anyone have any suggestions on things I can do to make the time pass for the next week?

Every day, this house feels more and more like my home. Also, every day I get a little more unpacked and settled in.

I’m trying not to unpack too many of my personal possessions until Sarah gets here, because I want us to kind of settle into the house together, but it’s getting harder to keep all of my things in boxes! One more week, I can make it, right?

This is the view of our backyard from the spot where I park my boat. Or rather where I would park my boat if I actually had a boat, which I’m dying for! Every Sunday going to and from church when I drive over the reservoir spillway, I see about three dozen sails jutting above the horizon off in the distance, and I always wish I could be out there under one of them!

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This is the view out our bedroom window, directly across from the bed. I actually took this picture while lying in bed, so this is pretty much exactly what Sarah and I can look forward to seeing every morning when we wake up. The window faces east, but because of the trees we don’t get any direct sunlight, ever. It’s so nice!

This is my office, where I’ll be doing a lot of work at home. Through clever framing of this picture, I managed to keep the unsightly piles of clutter still waiting to be unpacked out of the shot.

A couple of things make this living room kind of difficult to deal with.

First, in addition to the furniture from my apartment, my parents generously donated the old furniture from their house. Glad to have all the seats, but this means I have to find a home for two sofas, a loveseat and two recliners in the house somewhere.

Second, the living room is very large, but is a kind of weird shape: long and narrow. This means if I put a couch on each wall and a third across the room (making three sides of a square seating area), there’s just barely enough room to squeeze between them.

Anybody have any suggestions for arranging the furniture?