exciting day!
So we did Stuff today. Stuff included painting the bedroom of the new place (it's about 2/3 of the way done; I should be able to finish it sometime this week), chipping damaged paint and plastering over the dents in the wall of the office, and BUYING A REFRIGERATOR!
I am very excited about the fridge. I have never bought a new appliance before. I'm also pretty excited about the painting, because the room already looks so much nicer even though it's only semi-painted. We are painting it this really deep red color on bottom, with the pink version of the same hue on top, and a really dark burgundy color for the trim. It sounds vile, I know, but it looks pretty good in the room.
We also found a very tasty Chinese place by accident, after accidentally buying the fridge (we went to K-Mart to shop for patio furniture. We left without furniture but with a major appliance; apparently, K-Mart sells all the Sears clearance appliances, and we got a very good price on that fridge, especially since the sales guy just sort of randomly gave us his employee discount; he was a very pleasant man to deal with). Both the K-Mart and the Chinese place are in the West View Shopping Center, if any of you ever find yourself in West View. (Basically, the Chinese food is at the very end of the 500 bus route). We had potstickers, wonton soup, egg rolls, and General Tso's, and all of them were exceptionally delicious. The General Tso's in particular was really pleasant - sort of sweet with a hint of spiciness and a lot of garlic. Also they actually used good-quality breast meat, instead of scary little grey lumps of indeterminate origin.
Other discoveries: a headless bird stuck in one of the attic windows (no way in hell am i touching that fucked-up nastiness), a crapload of echevaria growing out in the backyard, and the fact that the Bayer sign next to the Duquesne incline functions as a clock for our back porch.
I am very excited about the fridge. I have never bought a new appliance before. I'm also pretty excited about the painting, because the room already looks so much nicer even though it's only semi-painted. We are painting it this really deep red color on bottom, with the pink version of the same hue on top, and a really dark burgundy color for the trim. It sounds vile, I know, but it looks pretty good in the room.
We also found a very tasty Chinese place by accident, after accidentally buying the fridge (we went to K-Mart to shop for patio furniture. We left without furniture but with a major appliance; apparently, K-Mart sells all the Sears clearance appliances, and we got a very good price on that fridge, especially since the sales guy just sort of randomly gave us his employee discount; he was a very pleasant man to deal with). Both the K-Mart and the Chinese place are in the West View Shopping Center, if any of you ever find yourself in West View. (Basically, the Chinese food is at the very end of the 500 bus route). We had potstickers, wonton soup, egg rolls, and General Tso's, and all of them were exceptionally delicious. The General Tso's in particular was really pleasant - sort of sweet with a hint of spiciness and a lot of garlic. Also they actually used good-quality breast meat, instead of scary little grey lumps of indeterminate origin.
Other discoveries: a headless bird stuck in one of the attic windows (no way in hell am i touching that fucked-up nastiness), a crapload of echevaria growing out in the backyard, and the fact that the Bayer sign next to the Duquesne incline functions as a clock for our back porch.