You guys! I have a sofa! In my apartment! My friend took me to Ikea, and I was all ready to buy a $500 loveseat and spend $100 to have it delivered tomorrow or Monday, when at the very end, we checked the as-is room. There was a different loveseat in there, that I had also liked (if not quite as much), but this one was half off! $219! But then it turned out that they don't deliver as-is furniture, but then! It turned out that it fit inside my friend's truck! So I called my parents and they came over, and among us, we got the sofa up to my 4th floor apartment! YAY! So much money saved. And I have it right now!
Wait, how come I'm not sitting on it?
YAY for new loveseats! Esp. bargain love seats!
My mother gave us a lovely, lovely, pre-housewarming gift today, buying us the new stoneware we wanted. [link]
Really, we should have waited until we moved, but I didn't want to risk missing out on the sale, seeing as it saved over $200 (She bought us 4 sets/16 place settings)
are you a 4th fl walk-up?
are you a 4th fl walk-up?
Indeed I am.
Now I have to figure out modem cords and crap.
Congrats on the sofa, Jesse, and the stoneware, Barb.
I've spent the day baking, as I'm providing the dessert part of a progressive dinner tomorrow. Venison mincemeat pie, Kahlua brownies, and cheesecake with cherry topping. My apartment smells wonderful.
Ooh, that sounds excellent, Calli.
Mmm... yummy, Calli! I saw you mention the venison mincemeat in your LJ and was intrigued. It sounds really interesting.
Venison mincemeat is an old family tradition. Mom thought her great-great-grandma Baker brought the recipe over from England back in the 1800s. We've had it at Christmas and Thanksgiving as long as I can remember. Last year we'd run out of the last batch my late mom had made (you get ~12 quarts per batch, which make 12 pies). So I tried my hand at it. It came out just like Mom's. The recipe's here, if you'd like to try it. It's an all-day process, though, and then some.
Yay love seat.
Barb, I love that dinnerware- I love all the colours. My parents are buying me some very plain white dinnerware for Xmas. But I have some much odds and sods pottery I wanted something neutral to work with.
