Time for more push-ups

The living room Sofa arrived last Wednesday night. The Sofa looks fantastic, although we are totally paranoid about sitting on it, lest we make it dirty. We've got plenty of blankets available in case we want to do something silly like eat or have a glass of wine in the living room. Maybe I should just dump some pizza sauce on it and get it over with. Kind of like when I backed the bumper of my new car into a wall after two weeks ...After that, I didn't really care as much about how it looked. (yes, I actually owned a car once)

Anyway, I guess we will have to be grown up and learn to eat dinner at the table instead of on couch in front of a movie.

The new couch also means we have to actually get rid of the old couch. Craig's list was a bust and, who knew, but Good Will no longer does furniture pick ups. So, rather than having a completely overstuffing living room, we had to move the couch to the garage. Not as easy as it sounds. You see, the door on the yard side of the garage is way to small to fit anything more than a compacted moving box through, so we had to actually walk the couch around the block to get it in the back alley.

Now, on the one hand, G's got that muscular eastern European thing happening. On the other hand...Lets just say, I'm often politely referred to as "petite". The general consensus was, I need to do more push-ups.

PS - anyone want a lovely matching Navaho print couch and chair? I'll give you a great deal, as long as YOU pick it up :)

BTW, Momma Mary

We have discussed this and we have no clue what you are talking about.

We love our Ash cat

Our cat, Ash, is twenty-one years old as of January. Four years ago she was diagnosed with problematic kidney's and given a two year prognosis.

I've never been one to shy from spending money on my cat and C. has been on board with that (a wise decision, given that Ash does have seniority). Not everyone gets this, as she is just a pet, but I see myself as responsible for her life. As long as she is not in pain (as far as we know), and we can afford it, we will do what we can.

For four years, Ash has been on Fortekor, Calcitriol , Amelodopine, Vetasyl, Tumil-K, and Maxiguard (that's 1 tablet, 2 gel-caps, fiber on her food, an oral gel, and a spray for her teeth EVERY DAY). Now we have added Cosequin and Lactulose (another powder on her food and a liquid dispensed orally with a syringe, EVERY DAY - twice for the syringe). You might laugh, and many do, but four years later, her kidney's have not deteriorated AT ALL. It baffles my vet. C. is convinced Ash will outlive the current aged-cat record holder of thirty-six years.

Perhaps the radiation therapy four years at McMaster University for her hyperactive thyroid has made all the difference (could have used drugs, but that would have been a two year prognosis - radiation, as you can see, has proven FAR more cost effective).

We love our Ash cat.

BBQ's and sofas

I am now truly, despite all futile juvenile attempts to refute it, in my Carlsberg years.

In the last three months, I have bought a house, TWO, count them TWO, couches, and now, if you believe it, a BBQ. Oh, and more kitchen furniture. ...and a caulking gun. a saw. weather stripping. a vacuum cleaner. storage shelves. ...and a shovel (Carolyn actually bought that one - unfortunately she selected an Elfin model - oohh, my back).

For our second sofa, we ended up with the Sears, everyday value, Pisces pullout sofa bed in blue. I'm actually a little surprised at myself. I figured we'd buy something overpriced and boutique, but the quality appears quite good (time will tell) and I feel like we paid a fair price. I'm certainly no expert on department store shopping, but I have to tell you, the service at Sears Canada was way hell and gone better than that at the Bay. Hence we spent ALL of our money at Sears.

The BBQ we picked up is the high quality, but still affordable, BroilKing Crown 20 NG (natural gas) barbeque [taht wrod neevr lokos rghit to me - did I msilspel it?]. I can't believe the price ranges that are considered 'mid-range' in BBQ's. You can spend more on your BBQ than I spent on my motorcycle. It just doesn't seem right.

Furniture Shopping

So we did it, we bought the sofa. I'm so excited. They are delivering it a week from Wednesday. We also bought a fabulous chair at Urban Essentials (175 King St. East) which I am very excited about.

So this means we'll have to do something with our existing couch and chair. I'm pretty sure we won't be able to fit either of them through the basement door, and we can't fit them into the garage unless we walk the things around the block and come in through they alley door.

I'm going to try selling them on Craig's list (which my friend JZ keeps talking about)...as a last resort, we can call Goodwill to pick them up (I hope!)

Oh, we also saw another pull-out couch at Sears which will be perfect for the office. (Can't find a pic on line though). We wanted to mull it over and not just buy it on the spot though. We've been thinking about it all day, so I think we might just have to make a trip back tomorrow and order it.

Yay, I'm really starting to feel like a grown up with grown up furniture and everything!