Goodness, what a day!
Woke up at 10am ish and waited for Tassels (mike) to come and pick us up so we could go and get the table and chairs which we found on craigslist (usa equivalent to TradeMe).
We should have known the day would take a turn for the worse after we caught every red light down South Grand. We ended up going round in circles a few times, getting lost as to which direction we were meant to take on the highway, rear-ending a car and having to wait 20 minutes or so for the cops to show up, Mike lost his number plate off the front of his truck from hitting the car in front (luckily no-one was hurt) Couldn't find the right building to pick up the table and chairs from, walked around a bit, asked a UPS guy (courier man) where the building was, and it turns out it was on the other side of the street from where we'd been looking for about 10 minutes. Finally got to the place and grabbed the table and 4 chairs, also bought a tiny bookcase/shelf they were selling for $10 because I only had two $20 notes and they needed to get rid of it anyway. We took Tassels out for lunch to say thank you for helping us get the stuff; we went to a Thai restaurant and the food there was pretty good- a bit spicy, but nice nonetheless. Got back in his truck and drove down the street to Aldi's (supermarket) to grab 2 bottles of milk because we were running out at home. Realised we had a parking ticket ($10 fine) for not putting change in the parking meter before we went to lunch. Finally arrived back at the apartment and had a wee bit of difficulty getting everything inside, but it wasn't too bad :)
We have furniture now! It looks wonderful!
I gave Tassels some ginger cookies and let him play with my kiwi toy which is named Rupert. Tassels left after that, and Train and I cleaned up and things. I looked out the kitchen window, and saw something odd over by the brick wall and the fence out in the shared backyard so I went to investigate. It was a rather large bench thing, which might have been a shelf of some sort in a previous life, sitting awkwardly inside a shopping trolley and looking forgotten and unloved. Bingo! I thought. Just what we need! Called Train outside to help me bring it in (it was quite warm today about 6-10C) so we lugged it inside and cleaned the top of it a bit because it was covered in dust and put it against the wall by our couches and the door. It's another wonderful addition to the room!
Hopefully B can still come over tomorrow night, she took her driving test today and was going to drive over tomorrow, but she failed it because the driver was mean and very nit-picky. If she can get a ride, she's coming over :)
Train and I just got back from walking to Blockbuster to rent A Clockwork Orange on DVD so we can watch it tomorrow if B comes over. We paid for it using a whole heap of change, it was amusing. ($1.99 in 1c, 5c, and 10c pieces)
Woke up at 10am ish and waited for Tassels (mike) to come and pick us up so we could go and get the table and chairs which we found on craigslist (usa equivalent to TradeMe).
We should have known the day would take a turn for the worse after we caught every red light down South Grand. We ended up going round in circles a few times, getting lost as to which direction we were meant to take on the highway, rear-ending a car and having to wait 20 minutes or so for the cops to show up, Mike lost his number plate off the front of his truck from hitting the car in front (luckily no-one was hurt) Couldn't find the right building to pick up the table and chairs from, walked around a bit, asked a UPS guy (courier man) where the building was, and it turns out it was on the other side of the street from where we'd been looking for about 10 minutes. Finally got to the place and grabbed the table and 4 chairs, also bought a tiny bookcase/shelf they were selling for $10 because I only had two $20 notes and they needed to get rid of it anyway. We took Tassels out for lunch to say thank you for helping us get the stuff; we went to a Thai restaurant and the food there was pretty good- a bit spicy, but nice nonetheless. Got back in his truck and drove down the street to Aldi's (supermarket) to grab 2 bottles of milk because we were running out at home. Realised we had a parking ticket ($10 fine) for not putting change in the parking meter before we went to lunch. Finally arrived back at the apartment and had a wee bit of difficulty getting everything inside, but it wasn't too bad :)
We have furniture now! It looks wonderful!
I gave Tassels some ginger cookies and let him play with my kiwi toy which is named Rupert. Tassels left after that, and Train and I cleaned up and things. I looked out the kitchen window, and saw something odd over by the brick wall and the fence out in the shared backyard so I went to investigate. It was a rather large bench thing, which might have been a shelf of some sort in a previous life, sitting awkwardly inside a shopping trolley and looking forgotten and unloved. Bingo! I thought. Just what we need! Called Train outside to help me bring it in (it was quite warm today about 6-10C) so we lugged it inside and cleaned the top of it a bit because it was covered in dust and put it against the wall by our couches and the door. It's another wonderful addition to the room!
Hopefully B can still come over tomorrow night, she took her driving test today and was going to drive over tomorrow, but she failed it because the driver was mean and very nit-picky. If she can get a ride, she's coming over :)
Train and I just got back from walking to Blockbuster to rent A Clockwork Orange on DVD so we can watch it tomorrow if B comes over. We paid for it using a whole heap of change, it was amusing. ($1.99 in 1c, 5c, and 10c pieces)
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