2004-10-11 
 

furniture

We have three new pieces of furniture.

1. A nice solid wood armoire for our entertainment center. (A rather lofty name for our rag tag assortment of electronics, I know.) It's a bit beat up as the former owners must've had a small dog that liked to chew on wood...or a rather odd child. With a little love and sandpaper, it'll be just fine. We couldn't beat the price and using the cubes to hold up the TV had begun to feel a little too dorm room. We discovered it at a garage sale a few blocks away....which in SF implies at least one or two hills. We wrapped about a hundred feet of rope every which way around it in order to secure it to the roof rack, and then drove away with me holding the end of the rope that trailed through the window tightly in my right hand. As if I would somehow be able to stop this huge object from hurtling forward...or backward depending on which side of the hill we were on. G and I were good boyscouts though and got it home in one piece.

2. A nifty desk that we found abandoned up the hill which looks almost new. Our best guess it that the previous owner didn't have a screwdriver and/or the patience to tighten the bolts that had allowed the desktop to slip down an inch. We on the other hand like figuring stuff like that out, and I'm happy to report that there's room for both my keyboard AND my mouse on my new desk. My old desk has been around for almost a decade now, but it's still in good condition and a nice size for a smaller apartment. Anyone interested? I figure the cosmic balance requires me to send my desk out into the universe for free, so speak up quick if you want it.

3. A telephone table that we totally didn't need, but which I'm convinced will someday be famous on the Antiques Roadshow.

In other news: Desperate Housewives shows potential as a new obsession of mine. Latter Days manages to be both sexy and smart and will be moving into our DVD library at some point in the near future. Most importantly, the pie pictured below tasted even more wonderful than it looks.

Labels: dose of mikey, linkage, random review

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