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...and tomorrow. But I'm not holding my breath. They've been predicting rain for a week now, and my house has seen nary a drop. Sure, it rained at the stadium on Tuesday, and I've heard reports of rain to the west, but nothing for my poor plants. And it's supposed to be over 90 and humid. Yay. Is it autumn yet?
In other news, we found a couch we liked yesterday. Unfortunately, we seem to be teetering on whether to buy it. Here's the deal: right now, in the basement, we have two chairs: my big round chair and the recliner. Because of the way the house is set up, we can't get anything bigger than 5' long downstairs. That means, to have a full-sized couch, we need to buy a sectional sofa.
Yesterday we stopped at one place and found an okay one, but the second place we stopped... had one we both loved. Sadly, the 'cuddler' end makes it too long to fit, so we'd have to go with the chaise end. Which isn't the worst thing, and really, the couch is very, very, very comfortable. The fabric choices are just okay, but did I mention it's a very comfy sofa? I'd have to make some sofa parasites for it, because it doesn't have the poofy arms, but that's not a problem. I has mad sewing skills.
The down sides are three-fold:
1) We'd have to find somewhere else in the house for the two chairs that are down there. Yes, this is a downside to buying a sofa at all, so if this is the stumbling block we simply remain sofa-less and content ourselves with sitting in the chairs (or rather, Mr. Smeddley sitting in his chair, and me perching on the ottoman because if I sit in my chair the dog glares at me for sitting in *her* chair).
2) We'd probably have to scooch the fishtank down to fit the chaise in properly. And it is a 55-gallon tank, so this is no easy feat. However, if we need to practically empty it to move it we could take that opportunity to frame and finish the window that is over the tank - I'm not sure I feel great about doing that with the fish tank in place, anyway.
3) It costs $1,500.
So my choices are:
1) Do nothing, let the couch-buying opportunity slip away, perhaps never to return.
2) Go out sofa-shopping at the big furniture store this weekend and see if I can get a better deal and/or a better sofa - if so, buy it or stick with option 1, if not, go with option 1 or 3 (at least I will have explored all avenues, though).
3) Just buy the sofa already, it's just money, you're going to be in debt up to your eyeballs forever, anyway, what's another $1,500?
In other news, we found a couch we liked yesterday. Unfortunately, we seem to be teetering on whether to buy it. Here's the deal: right now, in the basement, we have two chairs: my big round chair and the recliner. Because of the way the house is set up, we can't get anything bigger than 5' long downstairs. That means, to have a full-sized couch, we need to buy a sectional sofa.
Yesterday we stopped at one place and found an okay one, but the second place we stopped... had one we both loved. Sadly, the 'cuddler' end makes it too long to fit, so we'd have to go with the chaise end. Which isn't the worst thing, and really, the couch is very, very, very comfortable. The fabric choices are just okay, but did I mention it's a very comfy sofa? I'd have to make some sofa parasites for it, because it doesn't have the poofy arms, but that's not a problem. I has mad sewing skills.
The down sides are three-fold:
1) We'd have to find somewhere else in the house for the two chairs that are down there. Yes, this is a downside to buying a sofa at all, so if this is the stumbling block we simply remain sofa-less and content ourselves with sitting in the chairs (or rather, Mr. Smeddley sitting in his chair, and me perching on the ottoman because if I sit in my chair the dog glares at me for sitting in *her* chair).
2) We'd probably have to scooch the fishtank down to fit the chaise in properly. And it is a 55-gallon tank, so this is no easy feat. However, if we need to practically empty it to move it we could take that opportunity to frame and finish the window that is over the tank - I'm not sure I feel great about doing that with the fish tank in place, anyway.
3) It costs $1,500.
So my choices are:
1) Do nothing, let the couch-buying opportunity slip away, perhaps never to return.
2) Go out sofa-shopping at the big furniture store this weekend and see if I can get a better deal and/or a better sofa - if so, buy it or stick with option 1, if not, go with option 1 or 3 (at least I will have explored all avenues, though).
3) Just buy the sofa already, it's just money, you're going to be in debt up to your eyeballs forever, anyway, what's another $1,500?