New couch!
Our couch came in early! AHAHAHAHA! So what started out as a day that was behind schedule turned into a day with absolutely no regard to the schedule, and I'm ok with that.
As usual, the trip to get the couch involved a saga. I was talking to my parents on the phone this evening and my dad said that he thinks that there are some people who go through life in full, blinding color and dolby surround sound, and there are others who eke by with 8mm black-and-white silent home videos, and he's pretty convinced that I'm one of the former.
What can I say? Adventure follows me. I've been stranded in a snowstorm in Detroit on my way solo to Europe in high school, nearly mugged in the Bahamas, took a $120 taxi ride in France (wasn't that fun, Mom?), and left stranded on the sides of highways more times than I care to count. I count myself very lucky that NONE of my adventures involve personal bodily harm. God has a sense of humor, but it seems that it is not macabre, luckily for me.
Anyway, today's adventure involved yet another U-Haul trailer (I know, I know - you'd think we'd learn), the acquisition of which was delayed by a massive computer system shutdown at the U-Haul place. We needed the trailer in the first place because we figured out that we couldn't fit the new couch into the 4runner (and lucky we found out before we got all the way there, let me tell you). The drive to the warehouse was relatively uneventful, but when we got there they said that our couch wasn't available... which was perplexing because I had gotten a call four hours earlier that said it was, in fact, available and we could pick it up at our earliest convenience.
So we waited for a while, plotting big scenes that involved the sofa place paying for our U-Haul and then waiving the $70 delivery fee so that we didn't have to come all the way back into downtown Denver because of THEIR MISINFORMATION, but were almost disappointed when they found our couch and gave it to us without another word of protest.
It was a good thing the couch was wrapped in plastic, because on the way home we drove through three separate thunderstorms. These are the thunderstorms that produced 3 foot-deep rivers of water in downtown Denver this afternoon. Woo us.
Anyway, the couch has now been installed in the very lonely, empty looking space of wall and we are officially moved in, furniturially speaking. It's great, and I should probably stop talking about it now. *g*
The only other really noteworthy thing that I found today was the website for Brandon Sanderson, the author of "Elantris", which I mentioned with high honors yesterday. There are some sample chapters, for those of you who want to know if you'll like it, but what I found much more intriguing were the annotations he's written chapter-by-chapter about the book and his writing process. Very cool info, and neat to see into someone else's work in that way. Aspiring novelists, read the book and then find the commentaries! Yeah, I spent most of my non-couch-retrieving time today perusing those commentaries. I have absolutely no defense. I plead insanity!
Oh yeah.. talked to Reference #3 for my grad application. Everything's locked in and ready to go. Go go Seton Hill go!
Bedtime for me... or rather, teatime, then bedtime.
As usual, the trip to get the couch involved a saga. I was talking to my parents on the phone this evening and my dad said that he thinks that there are some people who go through life in full, blinding color and dolby surround sound, and there are others who eke by with 8mm black-and-white silent home videos, and he's pretty convinced that I'm one of the former.
What can I say? Adventure follows me. I've been stranded in a snowstorm in Detroit on my way solo to Europe in high school, nearly mugged in the Bahamas, took a $120 taxi ride in France (wasn't that fun, Mom?), and left stranded on the sides of highways more times than I care to count. I count myself very lucky that NONE of my adventures involve personal bodily harm. God has a sense of humor, but it seems that it is not macabre, luckily for me.
Anyway, today's adventure involved yet another U-Haul trailer (I know, I know - you'd think we'd learn), the acquisition of which was delayed by a massive computer system shutdown at the U-Haul place. We needed the trailer in the first place because we figured out that we couldn't fit the new couch into the 4runner (and lucky we found out before we got all the way there, let me tell you). The drive to the warehouse was relatively uneventful, but when we got there they said that our couch wasn't available... which was perplexing because I had gotten a call four hours earlier that said it was, in fact, available and we could pick it up at our earliest convenience.
So we waited for a while, plotting big scenes that involved the sofa place paying for our U-Haul and then waiving the $70 delivery fee so that we didn't have to come all the way back into downtown Denver because of THEIR MISINFORMATION, but were almost disappointed when they found our couch and gave it to us without another word of protest.
It was a good thing the couch was wrapped in plastic, because on the way home we drove through three separate thunderstorms. These are the thunderstorms that produced 3 foot-deep rivers of water in downtown Denver this afternoon. Woo us.
Anyway, the couch has now been installed in the very lonely, empty looking space of wall and we are officially moved in, furniturially speaking. It's great, and I should probably stop talking about it now. *g*
The only other really noteworthy thing that I found today was the website for Brandon Sanderson, the author of "Elantris", which I mentioned with high honors yesterday. There are some sample chapters, for those of you who want to know if you'll like it, but what I found much more intriguing were the annotations he's written chapter-by-chapter about the book and his writing process. Very cool info, and neat to see into someone else's work in that way. Aspiring novelists, read the book and then find the commentaries! Yeah, I spent most of my non-couch-retrieving time today perusing those commentaries. I have absolutely no defense. I plead insanity!
Oh yeah.. talked to Reference #3 for my grad application. Everything's locked in and ready to go. Go go Seton Hill go!
Bedtime for me... or rather, teatime, then bedtime.