Day One Hundred and Nineteen - Rear Window

My new place is the opposite of my old one in a number of ways. It's taken me a long time to adjust to being here and I have chronicled this adventure in my blog. Now that I am spending a lot more time @ home I am growing to like it a lot more. Also, it's winter and mind-numbingly cold outside so home-y-ness feels more organic than sweating it out in the summer where the evil well-insulated house [with no backyard] was the enemy. One thing is that it's very dark in here - it's like a cave [or a basement apartment, if you are less romantic] - although there are big windows. We are within an arm's length of the house next door so we don't get a lot of natural light. We do get natural light through our back window [which is the front of the apartment, but back of the house]. Until now we have left this window uncovered as that's the way I like it and I'm not shy. Joseph pointed out a little while ago that since the window overlooks the seedy alley, any seedy individuals in said alley can see right into our house [which - because it's so dark, it's always well lit] and see all of our wonderful valuables [oh, we are so millionaires].

Since he pointed this out, I have become increasingly paranoid and have stopped using the lights even. I have been on a quest to find the appropriate hardware to hang a curtain [one that I bought years and years ago while shopping with Lisa - we bought polar fleece blankets as well, but the curtain had never left its package]. It took a few trips to the shops and a near-encounter with a saw [which I was looking forward to]...but at long last I hung a curtain rod and curtain. It even matches our "decor" so I am quite thrilled. And no more seedy people looking @ all of my treasures...including me in various stages of undress.

And yes, I'm really very spoiled and have never put up a curtain or window covering of any sort before. In our old apartment Joseph's mum travelled all the way from Belgium to buy us curtains and even sew them together into one big omnicurtain for us. We are babies...so I'm taking baby steps.