We lost most of our furniture today. Cissy's long time roommate Saya left us her fridge, laundry machine, microwave oven, TV (with VCR), study desk (with lamp), unwieldy closet (with mirror), futon (with blanket), vacuum cleaner, TV shelf, and curtains when she left to study in Europe three years ago, but she has recently returned to Tokyo and after living a few weeks with us found job and apartment and took back her stuff this afternoon (minus the microwave, which broke down last year, and the unwieldy closet, which none of us really wants to have).

So now we are left with the new microwave we bought last year, a small foldable table, an office chair and small shelf that we picked up from the street, an electric heater, an ergonomic chair, a portable stereo, our own futon (with blanket), an inflatable sofa (which deflates frequently), no guest futon, no TV (will not be replaced if we can help it, the iBook can play DVD just fine and we can stop paying NHK), a DVD player with nothing to connect it to, no study desk, no fridge (will be replaced when we move to the new house, or perhaps earlier, eleven weeks without it could be too hard), no vacuum cleaner (replacement already ordered, should arrive this week), no laundry machine, a lot of catalogues about laundry machines, curtains to cover half of our windows, the unwieldy closet (with mirror), and another mirror (that Marek left here when moving back to Prague) behind it.