Since we've been here, we've purchased a few things, such as a bath mat, shower caddy, camera, and a few other things. However, there's still a lot of other things that we sort of want to buy sometime soon. There are some things we own that are kind of old and not very nice or, in the case of our desk, are falling apart. Shopping for stuff can be sort of fun, but I don't especially like acquiring things for several reasons, but basically I just don't like getting stuff that I'll eventually have to get rid of, and buying stuff usually isn't worth the money and natural resources that it takes. Plus it just takes so much time to make big purchases; if I'm going to buy a desk, I don't want to just buy one, I want to find the best one that's going to be the best one to use, look the best, last the longest, and be the cheapest, and finding the right desk takes time. Right now, here's the list of things that we kind of want to buy in the next few weeks:

• desk - The desk we have is falling apart. It holds everything okay, but we want to get something that will last longer.


• TV stand - Lesley's TV stand holds the TV okay, but it doesn't hold any of our electronics, game systems, or movies very well. I guess it works okay for now, but it would be nice to have an actual place for our stereo receiver rather than just putting it on the floor.


• clock - Lesley has an old blue clock that works fine and I have a nice Dallas Cowboys clock that's even better (at least by my standards), but we kind of want to get a new clock that looks nicer and that we can keep for several years. We spent a bunch of time looking for a clock online but haven't really found anything that we like much.


• bathroom clock - Lesley would sort of like to get a clock for the bathroom so that she knows what time it is when she's getting ready in the morning. This is just something cheap we'll need to find somewhere but we haven't gotten to it yet.


• curtains - Since a lot of light comes in through the windows and since the place would look a lot nicer with some curtains, we probably should get some curtains sometime, but it seems so complicated. I think we've basically figured out what we want to do, but we have to find the right curtains and then buy all the stuff and put it up, which seems like a lot of work.


• dining table & chairs - I've suggested getting TV trays instead because when we had them, we ate on them most of the time anyway at our old apartment, so I don't know if it'd be worth it to get a table and then have to find room for it, but we might eventually have to get this, if for nothing else than just to be able to pull another chair up to the computer.


• knife sharpener - our kitchen knives haven't been sharpened since we've had them. Every time I've looked for a knife sharpener at the store, they've only had these huge knife sharpeners that sharpen three kinds of knives and take up a bunch of space. I'd like to find a little handheld knife sharpener.


• step stool - It'd be nice to have something to stand on for reaching our high cabinets above the fridge. I don't really want to buy a step stool, though, so maybe we can get a chair and just use that.

If my option is to spend a day of my weekend buying something or doing something else, I'm going to choose doing something else. There can be some satisfaction with buying and owning stuff, but having to get all of this stuff is more of a hassle and not worth all of the attention it requires. But, I guess we'll have to find the time to get some of this stuff sooner or later.