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December 12, 2005
4-day weekend 
It's been a great weekend. Four beautiful days.
Friday was a meeting with career guy. Afterwards, I settled into my new habit of a cup of Joe and an egg sandwich and writing about the stuff that came up. I made a list of the stuff I wanted to do this weekend: wool sweater, RE1, mirador, the wide shoe store, yarn stores, the fat girl consignment place, g8dwill.
As you know, I'm a bit fixated on wool right now. I think I'm as cold as I usually am in winter, what with my drafty house and my drafty office, and my intense desire to get around on two wheels. I went through all my sweaters, and I have a lot of them. I have exactly one that has any wool content at all: and it's my three-sizes-too-big cashmere sweater (which I love, love, love). It's moth-eaten. And I wear it almost every day around the house, on rides, etc. It's embarrassing, it's so huge and holey. I could patch it, I think about patching it, but that wouldn't help the fact that it's so huge.
There's a g8dwill on the way home, so I stop there. I used to love thrifting, I used to do a lot of it, but it's just one of those things that's fallen away in the last few years. I spent quite a while there, looking for wool sweaters. I came away with a pair of new toe socks, three wool sweaters, several work tops, and several sweaters for Echo. It was great!
I then went home, did some cleaning, and then had a great long nap.
In the evening, we went to a friend's restaurant, and learned she had split from her husband in the couple of months that we hadn't been in. Scary stuff. After that, we went to RE1 and spent my dividend—yay, wool socks and turtle fur!
Saturday, we went to a smokey dive for breakfast: too smokey in fact. And then to mirador, which was too incensey. Both of our heads were swimming. We went downtown to do a factfinding mission around the corner of 5th & Couch—checked out Backspace, this absolutely cool, cool coffeehouse-hangout-gaming-internet thingee. Oh, and pool. Next door is the goofy japanese kitsch store where we bought cool little tinpos. And then next door to that is the retro video and pinball arcade. Too much fun!
That evening was dinner at our favorite place with friends. (Yayyyy!!!!!)
Yesterday, Sweetie and I did a great journey to the west suburbs! We went to a yarn shop in the middle of nowhere (the last time I was there, there was nothing but the run-down Mad Greek Deli and a run-down tavern, and now there's one of the "village" centers and the run-down Mad Greek and tavern), then to a furniture outlet store, and then to the larger version of the store we had decided to buy from.
It's funny. At this point we really had a vision for the new couch. It couldn't be leather because the cats might destroy it (and for a dozen other political, aesthetic, etc reasons). It couldn't be this, and it couldn't be that. And once you argue out all these options, walking through the store and making a selection is pretty simple.
So we sat on a bunch of couches, including the one that we had previously chosen and if it could have been delivered last week, we would have in our living room already. And then we saw The Couch. The Topaz. An apartment couch, so shorter. In dark grey microfiber. And it will be delivered on Saturday. Saturday! I am such an adult!!
I spent the rest of the day occassionally blurting, I bought a couch.
Today? Breakfast soon. Some walking, hopefully. Gotta dig in and do some cleaning. Some knitting. Some working on the guide. Just some general, I decide what I'm doing. It's great!
Posted at December 12, 2005
Comments
Hey there. I'm interested in learning more about your career guy. Can you either refer to him by name so I can find him or publish his information?
Thanks,
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Posted by: Patricia at December 12, 2005 10:55 AM