Lighting Overload

When two people move in together after dorm life, there's a meshing of styles and an abundance of multiples. This isn't even about appliances or dishes. Oddly, Steve and I have several lamps of all different kinds: desk lamps, standing ones, ones with adjustable bulbs, the list goes on.
One lamp of Steve's seemed to be a chameleon. Looking back on photos of our past two apartments, I noticed a certain something lurking in the background of several rooms. And I do not kid.

There it is in our kitchen/dining room of our old place being used more like a desk lamp. We had a single heater in this place so I buckled down near it to write my grad papers.

 There it is in our new living room...underneath a lamp...underneath a ceiling light.

Then it moved to the bedroom, soon to be replaced by a Craigslist lamp. This nomadic lamp soon made it to my nightstand and the log cabin boy's room coloring was just not cutting it.

Creeper. It really reminds me of Catalog Living. Go there for a laugh and you'll never be able to look at another home ad and take it seriously.