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Monday, February 14, 2005
YAY. yay yay yay.
DO YOU SEE THE HAPPINESS?
Do you notice the ABSENCE of the atrocious monstrosity of a couch?
Yeah baby, no more ugly 1970's throwback quilted ugly big-print brown-and-whatever UGLY couch.*
It's really serendipitous, the way this all happened. We were looking at thrift stores in the Valley on Saturday for a slide projector for T**, and we stopped at this one store and a guy met us at the door and said, sorry, they were closing, and while T asked if they had any slide projectors (they didn't), I saw this very nice*** couch and a matching loveseat behind the guy, and we asked how much they were, but we didn't get to see the fronts of them, only the backs. The store was closed yesterday, but I set things up so that I could go down this morning and check them out, see if they were in good enough shape and make sure they didn't smell like cigarette smoke (smokers, you fully have the right to do whatever you want with your lungs and your stuff, don't get me wrong, but dang, your furniture stinks), and if they were, I'd buy them (because we can take the money out of our summer vacation budget), and I had my dad on call to come down and haul them home for me. Dads of the world, listen, if you want to save yourself a lot of trouble, and you have a daughter, just buy her her own easy-and-cheap-to-operate pickup truck when she leaves home. Seriously. You will thank yourself later. Anyway. I digress. To finish the story without dragging it out any further, they looked gently used but worth the money and a FAR sight better than what we had in our living room at the time, so I called Dad, took the kids to the park and the little dollar zoo while we waited for him, took him and Mom out to lunch before we headed home, and by 3:30 I had happiness in my living room.
On Friday night at my dad's we're not going to set the other couch on fire because that is just not environmentally sound. And I would, um, never EVER do anything that's not environmentally sound. Right? And there probably won't be any pictures of me not doing that afterward, in this journal. So don't expect anything like that.
Speaking of serendipitous. The discount I got for having my dad pick up the couch (it's senior discount day at the thrift store) was exactly (within pennies) what it cost to take him and Mom and the kids and me to lunch. How cool is that?
*and no more serviceable-but-not-exactly-great Nagahyde loveseat either. That thing was COMFORTABLE though. Like a cushioned box. Great for curling up in to read. Except for that squeaky, sweat-sticky Nagahyde thing. Anyway. It's gone, but we're not going to burn it (of COURSE); we'll just take it to the SPCA for their ongoing rummage sale/thrift store thing. It's in good enough shape that someone might want it.
**We didn't find a projector to buy but we borrowed one and looking at T's astronomical photos, taken on slide film, projected on a screen in the dark? Totally awesome.
***did I ever mention how much I wanted a blue-checked couch and loveseat? Or that the few times I've seriously considered making a slipcover for the one we had [read: tons of work and a good outlay of money as well] I would gravitate toward a fabric that was almost exactly like the one you see in the pictures above this text? HAVE YOU SEEN THE BACKGROUND ON THIS PAGE? Just, yay.
