Three Hours Out
May. 7th, 2005 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senashentaYesterday Ryuu-chan called me out of the blue again... she does it all the time, so it's not really surprising anymore. Does that still qualify as "out of the blue", then? ^^; Naa, anyway, she was in town for the weekend (+ friday) and wanted to know if I felt like going to Barrie with her to look for some furniture.
She's moving at the end of the summer, and basically needed all new furniture for the place she's moving to. I have no interest in furniture shopping. But I told her I'd go with her to keep her company, and make her take me to the Chapters when we were done. XD Not that it's really hard to "make" Ryuu-chan go to a big book store, though. :P lol.
When she came to pick me up, though, it turned out that she'd had someone give her some furniture after she called me. A friend of the family had offered her a bed and a desk, so all she needed was some bookshelves and a bedside table... she really didn't need to go to Barrie for that, but she was going anyway because she promised me we'd go to the book store (and she knows how pouty I get when I can't go to Chapters...)
Since we were there anyway, though, she looked for some bookshelves and a table. We got some shelves, and then headed to Chapters; where I bought a Russian dictionary. And broke down and got the first three volumes of Fruits Basket. ^_^; So much for not starting any new series...
Muaaa! But Fruits Basket is so good! >^-^<
I finished reading them last night, and then wished I'd bought more than just three volumes of it. ^^;; Now I have to wait until the next time I get a chance to go to Barrie to get more. ;__;
Oh well...
Then once we were done there, I asked if we could go to the big aquarium supply store that's a few blocks away, so off we went. Right behind the fish place, though, is the Goodwill store for that section of the sity, and Ryuu-chan wanted to go in there to look at furniture for a minute. We went in to do that before the fish place, so that if I got fish they wouldn't bake in the sun for who-knew-how-long until we came back. ^^;
She ended up finding a table there for something like $6. And I actually got two chairs! COMFY chairs! They're faux leather and really retro-looking. =^-^= Maaa~
The problem with where I'm living right now is that the stairway leading up here is really narrow, so anything I bring up has to be less than two feet across. O_o The only reason I have a couch and a bed up here is because the couch is a futon, so it can be taken apart and movies piece-by-piece, and so can the bed.
Anyway, these oh-so-comfy chairs are relatively thin, so I could fit them up. ^^ That was one of the things I'd been looking for, since I lacked for a good comfy reading chair up til now. Though the cats have pretty much adopted/stolen them from me since I got them in. -_-;;
So we loaded all that into the van and then went to the fish place... where I got some fish for my aquarium. *nods* This time I decided to cheat, though; I can fit about two dozen little(er) goldfish into it (if I'm doing goldfish), but that gets expensive, and the fish can be touchy. This time, though, I got four big ones--two Shubunkin and two Pond Comets. They're tougher than normal goldfishies, just as pretty, and take up enough space that I'm pretty much done filling my tank now. ^^
I have this horrible urge to name them after Fruits Basket characters.
Nyahahaha... ^.^;;
She's moving at the end of the summer, and basically needed all new furniture for the place she's moving to. I have no interest in furniture shopping. But I told her I'd go with her to keep her company, and make her take me to the Chapters when we were done. XD Not that it's really hard to "make" Ryuu-chan go to a big book store, though. :P lol.
When she came to pick me up, though, it turned out that she'd had someone give her some furniture after she called me. A friend of the family had offered her a bed and a desk, so all she needed was some bookshelves and a bedside table... she really didn't need to go to Barrie for that, but she was going anyway because she promised me we'd go to the book store (and she knows how pouty I get when I can't go to Chapters...)
Since we were there anyway, though, she looked for some bookshelves and a table. We got some shelves, and then headed to Chapters; where I bought a Russian dictionary. And broke down and got the first three volumes of Fruits Basket. ^_^; So much for not starting any new series...
Muaaa! But Fruits Basket is so good! >^-^<
I finished reading them last night, and then wished I'd bought more than just three volumes of it. ^^;; Now I have to wait until the next time I get a chance to go to Barrie to get more. ;__;
Oh well...
Then once we were done there, I asked if we could go to the big aquarium supply store that's a few blocks away, so off we went. Right behind the fish place, though, is the Goodwill store for that section of the sity, and Ryuu-chan wanted to go in there to look at furniture for a minute. We went in to do that before the fish place, so that if I got fish they wouldn't bake in the sun for who-knew-how-long until we came back. ^^;
She ended up finding a table there for something like $6. And I actually got two chairs! COMFY chairs! They're faux leather and really retro-looking. =^-^= Maaa~
The problem with where I'm living right now is that the stairway leading up here is really narrow, so anything I bring up has to be less than two feet across. O_o The only reason I have a couch and a bed up here is because the couch is a futon, so it can be taken apart and movies piece-by-piece, and so can the bed.
Anyway, these oh-so-comfy chairs are relatively thin, so I could fit them up. ^^ That was one of the things I'd been looking for, since I lacked for a good comfy reading chair up til now. Though the cats have pretty much adopted/stolen them from me since I got them in. -_-;;
So we loaded all that into the van and then went to the fish place... where I got some fish for my aquarium. *nods* This time I decided to cheat, though; I can fit about two dozen little(er) goldfish into it (if I'm doing goldfish), but that gets expensive, and the fish can be touchy. This time, though, I got four big ones--two Shubunkin and two Pond Comets. They're tougher than normal goldfishies, just as pretty, and take up enough space that I'm pretty much done filling my tank now. ^^
I have this horrible urge to name them after Fruits Basket characters.
Nyahahaha... ^.^;;
