Basements...

are cool. Plus, quite handy when you keep getting tornado warnings. Wheee! At least we aren't flying in this kind of weather, unlike my SIL & her boyfriend. They came in right in front of the storm, and then we proceeded to play musical beds. 7 people in one house. It was determined by my MIL that I would give up my bed in the basement for the new arrivals, and bond with the couch. Call me crazy, but that made no sense to me. I had all my stuff in the basement, and would be staying for 6 more days. The SIL & boyfriend - 1 night. MIL insisted that boyfriend would need more privacy, so away we went. I lugged my stuff upstairs, and made up the couch. Then SIL & boyfriend announced they did not want to sleep downstairs, boyfriend felt more comfortable on the couches. See me lug all my stuff back downstairs, a strange mixture of annoyed and elated. It's my basement!