Walking the path to my own happiness

[mamabird]

Hooray, the bookshelves for my den arrived today! Now the room ("my room") is starting to look somewhat respectable! There's a long way to go but I made a lot of progress today.

H had very strange behavior around this. First of all, he conveniently "forgot" to tell me that they called this morning and rescheduled the delivery to today - until about 5 minutes before the delivery actually arrived. We had to clear out the room so we had room for the new furniture, but we managed to get that done without too much delay.

Secondly - and this was really weird - while the guys were bringing the bookshelves up the stairs, H went into the bedroom (across the hall) and closed the door, as if he wanted no part of any of it.

When he finally came out, he asked me how much it cost and then said "you get what you pay for." He was insinuating that it wasn't high quality enough. Whatever, it's all solid wood. I also got a nice media stand for our TV - it had been resting on a wire shelf - now THAT was junky!

As the day went on, H warmed up to it all. He couldn't exactly bring himself to say or admit that it looked good or that it was going to make a big difference or (God forbid) HELP me organize any of it (though he did attach the bookcases to the wall for me) but by the end of the day he had relented on "junky" and was saying we should get something similar for the living room. When I told him there might be another option, something we haven't thought of, he actually agreed and said I could bring a decorator in.

I am happy - not just because we now have something decent in here, but because I made the purchase "all by myself."