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Please allow me to introduce my lame, creepishly adolescent couch:
Them's some niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice Harry Potter sheets, ayup!
And the hat said . . . For God sakes, you sloppy wanker, clean your own bloody house before I put you into one of mine, m'kay! (I know. This couch is really, truly inexcusable)
Okay, so we bought this couch from the previous owners, who were moving to Switzerland and didn't want to take such a big bulky item as a couch with them. They were total minimalists. Anyway, over the past five years, the couch has been horribly abused. The dogs have marked on it a couple times, and after the last time they did it, I just said Forget This, and I threw away the back cushions. I was not going to deal with washing them one more frickin' time. However, ever so smartly, I subsequently left us with no pillows for the couch. So, I ordered a bunch of pillows from Overstock.com, but they were too small and didn't give any support. At that point, we all gave up caring, and the couch fell into the state of disrepair you see in the pictures above. I finally got around to ordering the correct size pillows, and while I was looking at pillows I saw slipcovers, and I thought maybe a slipcover would be helpful. I bought one. It's super groovy, is a brilliant 70s goldenrod color, and it fits the couch quite well.
Check out the couch's new threads!
Did I mention it is velour-like? (Y) Oh, yes, my friends. Oh, yes. VELOUR-LIKE!
One more shot of the old golden girl:
In all seriousness, though, it'll do a fine job until we can afford to buy a new couch. Next time we get a couch, I don't care how much extra the super firm cushions cost, we're getting them. I hate cushions that lose their oompf after only so long. My mother thinks the couch is pretty cool now, which is high praise, seeing as she actually sat on it!
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Today I also moved the fish into their new 40 gallon aquarium. I suspected that there was an ammonia problem in the small tank, so I went out and bought a water testing kit. Holy crap, the ammonia levels in the fishes' water were lethal and I made the decision to move them two days early (I had been planning to cycle the new tank without fish for a full week). The water in the new tank tested perfectly clear, so in went the fish. So far, so good. Here's Lady, my male fancy calico goldfish:
Isn't she he pretty?
Them's some niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice Harry Potter sheets, ayup!
And the hat said . . . For God sakes, you sloppy wanker, clean your own bloody house before I put you into one of mine, m'kay! (I know. This couch is really, truly inexcusable)
Okay, so we bought this couch from the previous owners, who were moving to Switzerland and didn't want to take such a big bulky item as a couch with them. They were total minimalists. Anyway, over the past five years, the couch has been horribly abused. The dogs have marked on it a couple times, and after the last time they did it, I just said Forget This, and I threw away the back cushions. I was not going to deal with washing them one more frickin' time. However, ever so smartly, I subsequently left us with no pillows for the couch. So, I ordered a bunch of pillows from Overstock.com, but they were too small and didn't give any support. At that point, we all gave up caring, and the couch fell into the state of disrepair you see in the pictures above. I finally got around to ordering the correct size pillows, and while I was looking at pillows I saw slipcovers, and I thought maybe a slipcover would be helpful. I bought one. It's super groovy, is a brilliant 70s goldenrod color, and it fits the couch quite well.
Check out the couch's new threads!
Did I mention it is velour-like? (Y) Oh, yes, my friends. Oh, yes. VELOUR-LIKE!
One more shot of the old golden girl:
In all seriousness, though, it'll do a fine job until we can afford to buy a new couch. Next time we get a couch, I don't care how much extra the super firm cushions cost, we're getting them. I hate cushions that lose their oompf after only so long. My mother thinks the couch is pretty cool now, which is high praise, seeing as she actually sat on it!
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Today I also moved the fish into their new 40 gallon aquarium. I suspected that there was an ammonia problem in the small tank, so I went out and bought a water testing kit. Holy crap, the ammonia levels in the fishes' water were lethal and I made the decision to move them two days early (I had been planning to cycle the new tank without fish for a full week). The water in the new tank tested perfectly clear, so in went the fish. So far, so good. Here's Lady, my male fancy calico goldfish:
Isn't she he pretty?