Oct
24
2009

More Funiture Shopping, & My New Pride And Joy

Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 07:00:00 pm
(Posted Under: Operation Desert Rock, Livin' In The USA Livin' In The USA)
Another productive day down. I was up early again this morning - i think it's an Arizona thing. And how bright it is in the morning doesn't hurt any. This morning I took care of some stuff, including updating my address with the powers to be. I enjoy when I'm told that my legal obligations have been met. [smile]

After that we headed out again to continue the furniture hunt. As I'm writing this, it blows my mind that this was today - it totally feels like it happened a day ago! We headed up to north Phoenix to check out a second hand place. It was a glorious day today, and it was pretty awesome being out actually. We passed one of the houses that we'd looked at last month, which was a good reminder of just how far from Tempe that place was! [smile] The second hand place was a lot different to the other places we've looked at, and was kinda a cool different experience to yesterday. Alas it was a lot less productive (though enjoyable for me) than yesterday, all though Katie did snag a cool wooden ornament shelf (that you affix to a wall) with cacti carved into it for $4.

Photobox Image After that, we headed out to another store - but along the way passed a nursery. While I knew that we had a lot to do today (the afternoon was wearing on), I decided that we needed to stop and check it out. We'd only been discussing how we need a Saguaro cactus! Although I knew we didn't have time to just look and we had more important tasks at hand, I figured that since we were so far north in Phoenix, it made some sense gas wise, rather than driving back later. This place was awesome. We looked around the whole place - probably taking a little more time that I'd originally planned - looking at all the 'pipe dream' specimens which aren't realistic until we at very least have a house (and an extra grand for a cactus! [smile] ). However, we did spy some deals, and long story short picked up one for the porch of the apartment (with a $40 price tag, rather than $700). It's brilliant, and was immediately my pride and joy! We actually justified the cost every which way - but basically it's our moving in gift to each other. While it's not a saguaro, it looks like one (so busy, so tired, haven't been able take note of the species properly) and is just a great specimen, and exactly what I had in mind when we were earlier talking about.

For a moment the thought of who was going to be the lucky one to carry it to the car was quite comically. However, they wrapped it for us (using an incredible amount of butcher paper - but amazingly well wrapped) which made it really easy to move around without being stabbed to death. I mentioned in an earlier post the new inanimate objects that I am in love with - this cactus has become the third item in that group! Oh man!

With that little diversion out of the way, we made it to the second furniture store, and unlike yesterday, made a purchase! While we had been thinking of less and something cheaper, this was a smoking deal (sofa, with a love seat included in the price - and much higher quality than what we had on the cards) and is an investment in our future, where as the other main contender would have been replaced as soon as our finances and stability change.

With that out of the way, we blew off picking up anything more out of storage, and headed home to unload the new cactus, and to measure / work out the arrangement of our new furniture.

With that out of the way, and only two pizzas in the fridge (the third one we ate for lunch today), it was time to deal with the issue of grocery shopping - something that we've kept putting off in preference of getting other stuff done. This is day 3 in the apartment mind you. The noteworthy part of this experience is, amazingly finding some hard bread rolls with sesame seeds! This was a major lodge victory, since Americans are obsessed with the softest, flakiest bread known to mankind - to me, it's only a few steps away from just being dough! [smile] So yesterday Vegemite, today some good rolls - it's all coming up Milhouse in that department!

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