My dear SIL Bellie ... you are to blame. She kept saying "are you watching the Casey Anthony trial?" and I'd say "no" -- she would tell me how interesting it was. So for the last 3 days I've been pulling it up on You Tube to listen to some of the previous days trial - and now going to a website to listen as it goes on. Not sure what it is about it that is so addicting ... but IT IS. I can pull it up on the internet - and then put the window down and just listen at work. Kind of like TALK radio! So Bellie ... you got me! *wink* http://www.wftv.com/caseyanthony/index.html This is the link of where I am listening to the live trial. Pretty good coverage!
So last Friday I needed to go pick up the furniture for my afternoon job. The common area furniture at Fulton Place gets lots of use (and dare I say ABUSE?) - after almost 5 years it was really really nasty. Who knows what was on the seats? And the back was ripped on the little sofa and ... I have $2000 in my budget to do things each year for the residents. Last year we updated the computers and bought new computer room chairs. This year ... furniture.
There is this place in Moline -- quirky little place with an odd little man that runs it. But the furniture seems to be a fairly good quality and the prices are not too bad either. We found this place after we bought our stuff last fall - and wished we had stumbled on them earlier. Not sure we would have changed what we got, but ... who knows.
He has a lot of samples in his small space - but then tells you that you can get this couch in THAT fabric, etc. So what I ended up doing was buying a love seat and 2 chairs (which is what we had there already) - I chose a textured microfiber and a kinda funky coordinating fabric for the seats and back of the chairs. I usually don't really care for the feel of microfiber - but this textured stuff doesn't feel the same and has a more "luxurious" look to it. I waffled on the coordinating fabric - should I get it all the microfiber? Or should I get a coordinating "safe" patterned fabric. I decided to go with my initial 'funky' choice and I like how it looks. Lots of people have complimented the choice - saying it's really cool.
I upgraded the foam - it is supposed to be sturdier and last longer. He said it's used in places like hotel lobbies, waiting rooms, etc. Places that get some good traffic. So we'll see! It wasn't that much more and we really do need any extra 'umph' out of our furniture that we can get!
My new rule is (and I've been drilling this into the resident's heads for FIVE WEEKS while we waited on the furniture to arrive) -- no food, no drink and no sleeping on the new furniture. They can eat at the tables in the common room, but not the furniture. The sleeping rule was because on of our guys likes to lay on the loveseat and sleep - sometimes all night. He has a little problem in his own apartment where he wakes up to go potty but doesn't make it further than the side of his bed. So I'm pretty sure the spot that I had cleaned out of the carpet in front of the sofa might have been from him.
So with the talk of furniture. Hmm? We did get new furniture last fall. And everyone who has been at my house (especially my family ... *smile*) knows I'm an ogre about my furniture. NO PETS! I love my new stuff and I know it will get ugly soon enough ... so anyway, last week we had a guy here talking to us about INVISIBLE FENCE (which we are not going to buy) for the dogs. I remember looking at him as he was writing and talking to Randy. The thought went through my mind ... "I hope he doesn't write on my furniture."
Well, guess what I discovered AFTER he left. A 1/2 inch black (blue?) inch mark on the seat of my loveseat. OH NO! Well, not to fear - we protected our investment when we bought it with >>>>drumroll<<<< INSURANCE for furniture that covers if something happens to the furniture. So we begin the process to basically find out how to remove the ink from the leather. Come to find out (from the insurance company) that ... they can't help us. Why? We do NOT have insurance on our leather furniture after all. We have insurance only for cloth furniture.
Those of you who know what "going Ludke" means will understand ... Randy "went Ludke" on the poor insurance and later store people. We didn't buy any cloth - why in the world would we have an insurance policy for cloth? The store finally got the situation squared away with the insurance people - and we now DO have coverage and a "technician" will be contacting us shortly ... which reminds me, I think today was the "shortly" that they implied! Oh well, it's Sabbath - won't worry about it now.
It seems like it's one thing after another the last few months in the demise of all property owned by ... US! And now it is the water softener. Water softening for us is not really an option. It's a necessity. My dishes are WHITE and my hair feels icky. So we had the "Hey Culligan Man!" man come ... YOWSERS - for only $XXXX and your first born son - you can buy one, or for only $XXX and a fatted lamb you can rent one. So we're looking elsewhere. We did learn stuff from the "Hey Culligan Man!" man ... we have 20 parts of something hard water and our water has an odor to it that has to be treated with bleach periodically. So basically we learned the 20 parts of something thing - the rest we knew.
Last Sunday was Dean and Edyth Wooten's 50th wedding anniversary celebration. CONGRATS to them - and to their family ... it looked so pretty with all of the beautiful peony displays.
This is me pinching Dean's behind. He pinched mine about ...
well, a LONG time ago ... thinking it was the bottom of his beloved!
Jaimee and Ryan spent the week in Arkansas at Ryan's mom's house. Sounds like there was lots of swimming at a pool in town and they had kitties which Jaimee loved! The word is that she lost one of the kitties - at least when they left they still couldn't find it. She would carry them here and there - putting them in laundry baskets, trash cans, on the bed, etc. So did she put it somewhere? Or is it hiding from her? They drove all night last night, getting home about 9:30 a.m. today. After a bath, some clean clothes, breakfast and an episode of Mickey Mouse Club - Jaimee retired to her own little bed for a FOUR HOUR nap!
Hope you all had a great week.
Much love to all -- Happy Sabbath!
V
