Also, some of you have noticed I have taken to numbering my posts. I am getting ever closer to post #1000, and I didn't want to miss it, so I realized that if I numbered my posts 'til then, I will not miss it. I'm not sure what I can do to make my millennial post special, but I still have a few to go until then.
Wow, I've had a really busy three days since my last post. I will summarize...
Friday - Non-teaching day at work. Did my photocopying for day one of second semester. Went to lunch at Swiss Chalet, followed by a quick stop at the Gap Factory Outlet where I bought a very Parisian off-white spring trench coat with navy blue buttons. I have the perfect matching navy blue Coach bag too. I really hope it will be warm enough for me to wear this to Paris. If not, I'll have a Paris springtime in my coat here in Toronto. I also got a stripey shirt to go with it. Having this Gap outlet so close to my work will be dangerous for me.
After lunch/shopping, I went back to finish off semester one stuff. I went for a run at the new gym near the Eaton Centre (it's beautiful and has heated floors) then did some running around in preparation for Saturday's Bachelorette party.
Saturday - Spent the morning cleaning all the things. My pals from the Go9 arrived to welcome shots of some fruity alcohol I picked up. We Skyped in my friend Sandra from Utah, had the Bachelorette open up her gifts, then headed off to dinner at my fave local Mexican dinner. We knocked back quite a few pitchers of margaritas and sangria. It was a great time. There was lots more silliness after that, but in order to protect the good reputations of those in the Go9, I will leave it at saying that a good time was had by all, and that the hostess was the first one who succumbed to exhaustion and crawled into her bed after the late night pizza arrived.
Sunday - Most of my overnight guests left in the 8 am carpool, but Jo^2 (Jolene & Joanna) stuck around to go for breakfast down the street, and we headed off for some shopping at Ikea.
I was feeling rather tired, but I decided that it would be good to accompany a couple of friends with a large pickup truck to Ikea becaue I needed to work on completing THE LIST. I haven't yet posted about THE LIST but it's become a running joke amongst many of my friends, so I'll introduce it now.
Bascially, once Jason was cooking at my place and asked for a pair of tongs. I replied that I didn't have any, and he said "you need to start a list of basic household items that you need." I'll admit it - I kind of live like a university student in many ways. Let's face it - I'd much rather spend money on handbags and travel then, oh, tongs.
When I tell people I don't have tongs the common reaction is "How do you NOT have tongs? How do you flip things?" This begins the conversation into how I don't need to flip things because I don't like cooking meat, and live happily without tongs. And no, I'm not a vegetarian, I just like to eat meat cooked by someone else.
Anyway, tongs was the first item on the "grown-up list" and Jason and I added to it once while he was cooking and I was drinking wine. Here it is. I was forced to take a picture of it to send it to an interested friend. Seriously, the list is FAMOUS.
Now you understand why I couldn't turn down an offer of a trip to Ikea by a woman with a pickup truck. Jason and I have been planning to go together in his car, but so far other fun things have taken precedence.
Today I knocked off quite a few things off THE LIST: TONGS, a colander, a new bookshelf, and A NEW COUCH! I've been using my futon from university days for far too long. If I watch too much TV, my butt starts to get sore. I'm so excited to watch TV in comfort... This could lead to me getting the flat screen TV from THE LIST.
I also got a couple things not on THE LIST, like a second cutting board, and a new bedside table. Both were needed though.
All of my other stuff, plus the many purchase by Jo^2 fit in the pickup truck, but my couch had to be delivered. It was supposed to arrive between 5pm and 9pm, but it arrived fifteen minutes early. I was excited. I got it all unwrapped, but I'm going to need some help putting it together (for lifting), so Jason's gonna help me early this week. Here's how it looks now. Rilo's been exploring it like a fort.
All in all I had a fun weekend with lots of money spent. I'm going to have to lay low for the rest of February so that I have money for Paris in March. I guess you'll have to wait, electric kettle.
7 comments:
I didn't have a real couch until 2008. Even when Brad and I moved in together, we still had a futon. We bought ourselves a couch as a wedding gift. I still don't take it for granted. SO much better than a futon!!
TONGS, that is hilarious. Actually ours don't see THAT much use, but still there is definitely a spot for them.
We really are blog twins! I'm about 10 posts or so off number 1000 :)
Love that Rilo has a fort, love 'Superb Owl Sunday', and that list title is hilarious. Shut the duck up, indeed :)
how have you lived with no colander?
chopsticks are an easy/cheap replacement for tongs =)
I think I live like a college student too, in that I don't have a pan. But I have a wok.
Portlandia is funny. Who knew that a chick from Sleater Kinney would be good at sketch comedy?
Nothing says Paris more than a striped shirt.
And a baguette.
And cigarettes.
And tourists.
And...
Enviously...
K.
Your new couch sounds amazing. We don't have a particularly good array of useful grown up stuff but we do have a plastic sword hanging in our bathroom - that has to count for something right?
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