Another Day, Another Purchase
I finally did it. I finally signed up for Vonage the other night. Special thanks goes out to Tams and Terry!!! So nobody (including me) has an excuse not to call from time to time. Shoot the shit with me or fill me in on the latest gossip or talk to me about anything you want. I’d love to hear from you. I set up a virtual 604 number so you Vancouver folk can call me at local rates and so it won’t cost you any long distance fees. Isn’t that great? I only set it up that way cause I was thinking of you guys. So use it! Hank called me to ask about the name of some psycho guy that I knew. Perfect call; it was completely irrelevant to anything, almost unimportant, but interesting at the same time, and it didn’t really cost any of us anything extra. So, copy it off of my MSN name or drop me an e-mail and I’ll send it your way too. It’s a decent number and I didn’t even pick it myself. It’s got lots of 8s and a couple pairs of numbers. Shout out to Mary Ho too!! Wassup Ho?
There’s one thing I’ve noticed here and it seems somewhat consistent with a lot of the stores and takeout restaurants I’ve been to lately. These places always have a tonne of front line staff on duty. And most of them are absolutely useless. It’s like they stand around doing nothing. I’ve seen this twice at Best Buy and a few times at McDonald’s just to name a couple of examples. Nothing picks my bum more than standing in line, and seeing 7 staff in front of me, just walking by the counter or I’ll hear one of them declaring, ‘I’m going on break!’ or even worse, they’re just standing there staring back at me. It’s not a fucking staring contest fools! Bah!! I’m all for giving people jobs and stuff and keeping the youth out of trouble, but I just wish they were a little more pro-active and a little less dumb. This doesn’t represent all of the establishments, but it sure happens a lot more than I care for and it sucks. I’d rather be waiting in line due to a shortage of staff rather than a lack of skilled employees.
So I’ve had people ask me "Do you feel settled in yet?" and for the most part, I think I do feel quite settled in. I guess there’s just a little part of me that realizes that I cannot be fully settled in until I move out of my cushy corporate housing suite. I’m less than a week away and I’ll be able to sleep in my own bed soon. There’s actually a bunch of things that I’ll be looking forward to, like having a DVR/PVR again. Downloading TV shows has gotten stale and it’s a total pain in the ass. I cannot wait to have a machine record my shows for me. I’m also looking forward to HBO. Woohoo! Just in time for the re-start of Entourage. It starts back up later this month. HDTV! That reminds me of something related. I bought and ordered a TV over two weeks ago and it said that it shipped the next day. I still haven’t received it yet and I’m actually a little concerned that it will not get delivered until I move out. That might be a problem. I’m not sure how I’ll be able to take shipment of it, but I guess I got 5 days to sort that out. I hope it shows up tomorrow. That’s a lot of TV related items. I cannot wait to get access to all my stuff too. It’s been in storage up until now, and I’m longing for my things. I want my chopsticks and my pillow and my spring jacket.
This weekend, I made a special effort to look for a couch. I wanted to buy a sofabed so I could have a place for visitors to stay if they passed through town. So I was originally thinking of buying one from IKEA, but it was still $1000, and I know a lot of people that haven’t been too happy with their IKEA couches, and plus it was a little inconvenient for me to go there, so I decided to take a look at some other
furniture stores. I spent over an hour at this one store (Jennifer Convertible) which was known for having cheap prices and good package deals, but I just couldn’t find the right couch there. I spent so much time there and I was getting fed up with the place. I asked the dude working there which ones cames in different colours and he said they all came in different colours except for two of them. So I was looking at one set and I asked him what other colours it came in and he went to look and 5 minutes later he said ‘that one only comes in that colour’. What the???? Didn’t I just ask you which couches came in different colour options? This guy clearly wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed because later on, he was talking to some other customers and he just went on another tangent mid-conversation. He started talking about Borat and how funny it was and how he loved it. He was so loud and obnoxious. It gave me a headache listening to him. He couldn’t even pronounce the name properly; he pronounced it as Barett and nobody knew what he was talking about for a few minutes. His topic of conversation literally came out of thin air too. Anywya, there were some other half decent looking sofas, but they either felt like shit or they didn’t come as a Sleeper, or the price changed if I wanted it in a different color. Stupid! So I said ‘F This!’ and I just walked out of that place and I vowed never to return. I went to another place, that specialized in Natuzzis and other nice Italian sofas, but they were pretty expensive and he had limited colour options too (like an orange-red or purple). If I wanted black, it would be a special order and I’d have to wait 5 months. I suppose if I had an old couch to use in the meantime, then 5 months might not have been a big deal, but since I don’t, then 5 months sitting on the floor at home seems a little excessive.
Today, I went to Macy’s. Good suggestion Lisa! It turns out, they had a sale going on the last 2.5 months and I showed up on the very last day. They had a bunch of nice leather couches with sleeper options and their prices were kinda decent too. So after trying out a few couches and mulling over which pieces to get, I decided to buy a Italsofa brand couch. They didn’t have black in stock but dark brown was just as nice so I placed in order for a sofabed and a chair. It looks like the one here: Blair Italsofa. I agonized over the decision of purchasing the loveseat or the couch as well as the matching ottoman, but in the end, I decided that less was more in terms of saving space and I figured that buying less pieces would save me money too. Plus, the idea of moving back home one day with too many pieces of furniture kinda freaked me out. So that’s that, another day, another purchase. It turns out that Italsofa is a divison of Natuzzi. I’m sure some of you knew that, but I sure didn’t. So now I get to say that I bought a Natuzzi couch. Haha. I’m such a baller sometimes!
Alright, I said too much. I’m out! Oh, one more thing. I’m coming back to Vancouver on April 21st for a visit. See ya then!!!
~Anth
