Sweet Catastrophe

After we secure new couches for the living room, I’ve got my eyes on a new entertainment center. The one we have now is probably at least 12 years old and was never really meant to last this long, but it has! I’d like to retire it to the bedroom, for now, and get something nicer for all our pretty things in the living room.

Compartments are key– we’re looking at something to hold the television, Xbox, Wii, PS2, controllers and other gaming accessories, video games, my DVD box sets, and ideally all the rest of my DVDs. That’s not a must-have, but it would definitely be nice.

Drawers and cabinets are fine, but I’d actually like my DVDs in an open display. *shrug* I dunno if I just like seeing all my DVDs out there, or if it’s just how pretty and organized they always are even if the rest of the house is a disaster– lol!

I really like the look of this entertainment center, but I don’t like that it’s three separate pieces. I guess that gives more options for how to arrange it all, but I really like it all as one unit.

I could get behind this corner stand, for sure. It wouldn’t hold all my movies, but the consoles would all fit nicely and shoving it back into the corner would open up space for other shelving. It looks a lot brighter here in the picture, but I usually like a good cherry stain.

I like all the space this modular unit offers. I think I could get my whole collection there. I’m not sold on the composite, but I do like the design. I like the open feel– it would be suitable for the small living room we have now.

Again, I just wish money would fall from the sky and land in my Jeep or something. I hate knowing what I want and not being able to just go out and get it. For now I’ll have to stick to putting money aside and keeping my eyes peeled for an awesome sale and just hope I have the money for it when I see it! I think that’s the worst– finding an incredible deal and having to pass it up *cringe*

There’s a lot of shifting going on at work, people moving into other jobs and it’s been…interesting. I’m actually peeved right now. There’s someone trying to ‘fix’ a lot of ‘problems’ and going about it the wrong way. They’re keeping a notebook of things they think are ‘wrong’ and taking it to upper management to have them ‘fix’ things. So now instead of asking me about something, they went straight over my head and now I can’t do things I’ve been doing for over 2 years now. Things that everyone was aware I was doing and perfectly okay with it, things I’ve been praised for doing, but now that they’ve decided it call it an issue, I can’t anymore. So fine, it was extra work that I didn’t have to do anyway, so now I’ll just plop my ass on the counter and sit there doing nothing all night. That’s fine with me.

Hmm I guess they ran out of prompts. Thought they should have something specific for the final day– oh well!

I think I put up whatever tickled my fancy a few times more than they meant me to ;)

We’ll round it out with Cary Brothers. I can’t decide between “Ride” and “Blue Eyes” so you get both. There are actually two official videos for “Ride” but they both use the radio edit, which isn’t what I heard first, so of course it’s not the one I love ;) So yeah, this isn’t an official video.

I just got this in an email and thought a lot of you would enjoy it as well.

I  Owe My Mother

25  My mother taught me about JUSTICE .
“One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!”

Get my cavities filled.

Have my wisdom teeth pulled.

Settle with the car insurance. (I should be able to do my part for that in the next month.)

Lose weight.

Save money.

Get a Garmin.

Get a laptop.

See at least 3 concerts.

Figure shit out.

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It wasn’t terribly long ago that I had an epiphany and realized it was time to start working on some more adult furniture for my home. Time to slowly phase out all the hand-me-down pieces and things left over from my childhood– I’ve had my entertainment center since I was like 12. I don’t think that thing was ever meant to last so long.

Unless we just run into items on sale, I’m going couches first, then entertainment center, then coffee table/end tables.

Our poor couches– we haven’t actually had them for too long, and they were nice couches at some point, but they’re just old and worn. They’re a cream leather and ugh, the cushions won’t stay in place for anything. But I paid $20 for both of them so *shrug* Can’t exactly complain.

So now that we’re talking about it I’m having to actually think about what colors I want in my living room. If I thought I could get away with it, I’d have every room done in red and black, I swear, but I think I finally talked myself into limiting that to the master bathroom and kitchen…ya know, when a few million dollars falls from the sky into my arms and I get to design or redo my own home.

I think I want to go with a warm brown and maybe blue. This leather couch would be perfect, or even the whole set. I thought I’d get tired of leather and the way it holds the cold, but really that’s minor compared to the benefits– the easy cleaning and great look. I always use a blanket on the couch anyway. I really want to go with a solid, dark wood on the entertainment and shelving in the room so the deeper brown in this couch would really fit great with that.

Just one detail at a time!

This year is all of 28 days long. How about some Aqualung instead? Yeah? “Something to Believe In” sounds good to me.

On Sunday I was thinking about how I needed to really wash the Jeep this week and decide which window I want to put my new Gossamer decal on.

On Monday I was telling John he really needs to take the Xbox box out of his car because that’s just a sign that says, “Hey, there’s expensive stuff in here! Break in!”

On Tuesday I talked with a customer about how he was using a thick shower curtain to cover his back window because he was gonna have to wait a while to replace it and the shower curtain was super sturdy and still see-through.

Then on Wednesday I have Robert knocking on my door and telling me not to hate him ’cause he has bad news for me.

Yeah ain’t that just swell? Those are the kind of coincidences I hate. What did they get? An FM Transmitter that I spent all of $20 on. For a while I thought they got my entire cd collection, but I finally found the case in my apartment– I’d taken it in at some point to rip a cd and hadn’t put it back in the Jeep yet.

I’m pissed. Yeah, I’m thankful they didn’t get my expensive transmitter or anything else, but jeeze…glance in the vehicle first and see if there’s even anything in there worth taking!

I really wish we had security cameras. I know they probably wouldn’t do much to them for what little they actually did, but I still hate for people to just get away with crap like this.

I’m most annoyed about the window. Dad’s gonna want to take care of it which most likely means I’ll end up with a replacement window off some junker. Different tint than all the other windows, scratched up, etc. Ugh. I just want my Jeep to stay pretty. Is that too much to ask?

….or not.

The Perishers “Weekends”

I have no idea what’s up with this background image, so just ignore it.

Really? The post for a day in great detail was long enough. I’m not even going to torture you that way. Instead, listen to this wonderful Greg Laswell song.