Furniture

fur·ni·ture [fur-ni-cher] –noun
1. the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.
2. fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something.
3. equipment for streets and other public areas, as lighting standards, signs, benches, or litter bins.
4. Also called bearer, dead metal. Printing. pieces of wood or metal, less than type high, set in and about pages of type to fill them out and hold the type in place in a chase.

This was the word I misspelled in the 3rd grade spelling bee.

"furniture. f-u-r-n-a-t-u-r-e. furniture."

I'm not sure I will ever forget that. I was devastated and I walked through the cafeteria to where my dad was sitting and cried. This word seems to have plagued me the last few years since I have been out of school because I have very little. I have moved 4 times since I left school, 3 of which were all within 20-30 minutes of one another. I had decided until I was sure that I wouldn't be moving for awhile or could afford to have people help me move, I only wanted to keep the valuable or irreplaceable things. This meant no furniture.

But latelly Nik and I have grown tired of alternating between the bed and the kitchen table and we decided to get a couch. This is the first couch we've purchased and I'm excited. I don't know that we will live here forever, or even if we could afford to have movers just yet, but I do know that I will be excited to sit on the couch with Nik and look out at the view of the city.