Here are the pictures everyone´s been waiting for...my new home! These are the pictures of the studio I am renting near the Plaza de España, and I love it. And yes, that´s a washing machine-dryer combo. That little thing actually washes clothes, and dries them.
That´s the front entrance... and my bed.
That´s the rest of my bed and lo and behold...what´s that? A second bed for anyone who wants to hop on a plane and come visit!
This is the living room, which yes, is also the dining room and the bedroom, but hey, I still love it!
And of course, the eurobath.
Sassy Catalina´s mandatory messy table...
These are the sheets that I bought at the Corte Ingles, which I am very proud to show off because it was quite an endeavor to buy sheets in a foreign country. First of all, it´s hard to find sheets in the US, between making sure you buy the full matress cover, sheet, and pillow combo, and then making sure you buy the right size, and then making sure you don´t pay full price--because Sassy Catalina is cheap and she will spend hours at Bed Bath and Beyond if it means rummaging through the back of the sale corner for hours on end until she does indeed score those half-price double bed combo sheets (right, Danny?)So when I went into the Corte Ingles to look for sheets, I immediately knew I was introuble when--not only was everything in Spanish (of course, I knew it would be, and yet the difference between juegos de cama, sabanas, and capas, just wasn´t registering), but also because sizes were listed in centimeters. So sheet sizes looked like this: 90cm/190-200 and 135cm/190 etc. Yeah, exactly.
So, I quickly strolled over to the matress section and starting acting like I was interested in buying a matress, when really, I was just scoping out the labels on the twin matresses, trying to figure out what the heck size they were...
I quickly discerned that I wanted 90cm and that both the twin matresses and the double matresses are 190cm in length...so just like quessing on the SAT(which by the way, got me an embarassing 500 on math), I went with A) 90cm/190-200. And I was right. And I even successfully found discounted combo sheets (which still took me another hour), but at least there was no paying full price by Sassy Catalina! And I am happy to proclaim that I am now a Spanish sheet-shopping master.
This is a new little TV Tito that I bought for 29 euros. The good news is that it´s so light, I was able to carry it in a bag on the metro. The bad news is that it´s black and white and it only gets reception for two channels. The good news is that one of those channels has Grey Anatomy dubbed in Spanish! Yay!It also has an AM/FM radio. I love my new little mini TV Tito!
