Today's big win was round two of leveling the floor in the third bedroom. Ladies and gentlemen, may I present Exhibit A:
Yes, that is a 4' level sitting on my floor. Perfection. After dinner last night I caulked up all the seams that were ruining the job, and then we popped over to Home Depot for yet another bag of concrete. We mixed and poured the last two bags before bed. Success!
And now for the first bad news of the day: my sofa arrived this morning. At 8:30am. Not between 3pm-7pm yesterday as promised. And it's a nice sofa, except for one big fat freaking problem. Wanna see?
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHH! It's hilarious, right? Or I've become slightly unhinged, I'm not sure which. But either way, look what happens when someone sits on one of those freakishly tiny cushions:
Yeah, so. Also, it is SO uncomfortable right now. I feel like I'm sitting in a church pew, which is not a place I enjoy being. I know the down-wrapped cushions will deflate over time, but as it stands, the seat is way too narrow and this thing is unspeakably, horribly fluffy. Really, it looks kind of nice with the throw pillows on it-- the scale is great since it's a whole foot longer and about 4" taller than my previous sofa-- but I obviously cannot keep this thing.
Tomorrow we initiate the return-- this company claims you'll get a full refund (less a 10% "restocking" fee) including free return shipping, so we'll see. Good thing I haven't sold my old sofa on Craigslist yet-- I mean, I posted it yesterday and I've already had multiple offers because have you SEEN the other sofas available on Craigslist? Damn, they're ugly.
Lesson learned: just because buying furniture over the internet worked really well for your mom does not mean it will work well for you, and you're going to be crushed when you spend $1200 and wait three months to receive your sofa only to discover that it is just not going to work.
Anyway, this was probably some kind of sign or some shit, because we really don't have the money to buy a sofa right now. When I die, just pry my old bones off the old brown sofa to which they will surely have fused.
Returning the sofa means I won't have to feel so bad about spending nearly $900 on flooring for the third bedroom and laundry room, at least. AND our only car is officially dead at a shop across town right now AND we'll have to pay to get it fixed in order to trade it in so we can buy a new car, AND we spent about $250 leveling the floor AND we have tons of huge bills to pay following all of this summer's medical emergencies.
So I guess what I'm getting at is that if you're reading this and you are a fabulously wealthy philanthropist and you just don't know what to do with all that money you have just lying around, please consider a small donation (about, say, $10K) to two poor professors who are just trying to get by. Sigh.
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