Schmupdate

[christopher575]

Finally managed to get the desk I've been wanting for, oh, eight months now? 



It's actually kinda ridiculous, I started typing the I-K-E for Ikea's web site and it instantly filled in the URL to this very desk. Yup, been looking at that page for months. I would have just gone down there and gotten one, but there are some long pieces, so it wouldn't have fit in the car. Garrett's dad has a truck, but we would have had to go up to Everett, down to Renton, home, back up to Everett, and back down. And I realized years ago that my time is worth something to me, so I decided to hatch a plan. I sent out a message to a lot of people asking if anyone would ever be interested in making some money picking one up for me, found someone who was, and then kept an eye on craigslist. Eventually, I was able to paypal him $140 for a $90, which left $50 for him, minus whatever fees there were. It worked out nicely since he works in Interbay and it was near Discovery Park. 

The desks are $119+tax new, so I paid close to the same, but I didn't have to go anywhere, and it's already put together. Score! There was another gal who had some even cheaper, but of course they got snatched up out from under me. 

Now I have to clear some space for it. One nice thing is that a lot of what's in the way can go on the shelves. Another nice thing is that they make cool inserts for the shelves, like boxes with mirrored doors or sets of two drawers. I'm trying to decide if I should fill in all four up above to stop Steve from hanging around in them. It might be nice to set aside one for him. I dunno. I may also need to move my lamp that's next to the bed, but of course that would require an extension cord, since it's that setup where there are no installed lights in the ceiling, but the switch controls one of the outlets. It's good to have the main light source hooked to that.

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Reservations are coming together for our trip to DC and Philly at the end of February. For those who don't know, Garrett has always traveled in the spring, and he goes domestic one year and international the next. This year was Iceland, and last year was our trip through New Mexico. I think it's a great pattern and I'm very happy to join him. I'm also very grateful that he loves planning travel and he's also very, very good at it. If being a travel agent was still a thing, he'd be totally successful.

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Some spammers have been leaving silly comments about having a crush on me on random, old entries. I've actually really been enjoying it. It only takes a second to go delete the comment and block them, and I get to see a random, old entry. In fact, I think LJ should have a "view random entry" feature the way Wikipedia does. Random among your own and random among your friends. That'd be fun.

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I need to spend about $545 of FSA money before the end of the year, so I think I'ma get an eye exam and some pricey glasses. Perhaps I should make a day of Ikea (to pick up some inserts for the desk) and then that.

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Oh yeah, I got my hair cut on Thursday. I'd post a picture right now, but I'm not alone in the office and it's weird to set up Myspace angles when someone's in the background. I'll be glad when the blonde is all gone. With just a little bit on top, it really emphasizes how I struggle to style it.

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I liked this band when I saw them at the disastrous party with Sharon Needles a while back. Interesting to see Raja in the video.

I bought their LP after the party. It's cute.

Comments

[myrrhmade.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's really nice. I've been on the hunt to find super narrow tall bookcases for my living room. Finally found some for under 500$ a piece @ C&B, thank goodness. I really like the big chunky dark wood or yours though. Good choice.

[cattycritic.livejournal.com]

that is an awesome video.

happy desk!

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

If there's enough space on the other side, I'ma get a second shelf and put it there. It'd be against the wall, though, so turned 90 degrees.

[paranoiattaque.livejournal.com]

i had that desk when i lived at home! so good. i want another but it's waaaay too big for my apartment.

[wring.livejournal.com]

i kinda have that setup but with a small ikea desk. that shelf looks like my Expedit. in fact, it looks exactly like a vertical Expedit!

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

It's an Expedit workstation!

[wring.livejournal.com]

i should take a pic of my white desk, with my white expedit on my right.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Yes. Post it to your lj. Another post! See, it's easy to post a lot when you'll post just about anything. Like me.

[wring.livejournal.com]

idk i've seen a lot of ANYTHING posts on tumblr. yours make sense. even if they're bagels or plates.

[wring.livejournal.com]

by the way, i signed up for Memolane and they send me an email every day of what i posted "3 years ago" or "1 year ago". Sometimes it's in the form of a quiz type thing asking ME what year it's from. right now I got flickr facebook and twitter on it. it's cool reliving my random pics. too bad they can't memolane LJ!

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I will check it out!

[bukephalus.livejournal.com]

Very nice design. You can put the porn on the bottom shelves where the desk will hide them. Oh wait — nobody has physical porn anymore, do they? Okay, well you can hide your sex toys there.

I've been getting the same spam comments on some of my LJ accounts. In one case, it showed a comment had been added but I couldn't display it or delete it. Weird.

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

I got that one spam comment on an entry from 2005. It was bizarre!

And I love the desk.

[my-ophelia.livejournal.com]

Next time: Just ask me. I'm happy to pick up things from Ikea and drop them off no charge. I work down the street, and live downtown, so I do it a lot for friends who know what they need.

Also, we almost bought that table extension. We have about 8 pieces of expedit furniture, so it would fit on any number of them, but we ended up with an expandable dining room table instead. Good choice though, I like the dark too.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I will keep that in mind! I might tap you for those inserts. Do you take paypal?

[my-ophelia.livejournal.com]

Yup. Or COD. We have about 8 fabric drawers for the ones in the bedroom (socks, underwear, things we don't fold), and then some cardboard boxes for things we want out of sight. We have clear bins in the ones in the living room for board/card games. We have the black double drawer inserts in the big bookshelf in the dining room, for trinkets and chargers and candles. We also have the doors for random things we want hidden, and in the bottom row of the big bookshelf, we have 5 baskets for shoes and slippers/umbrellas. I think there are more we use, but I can't think of them right now :)

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I find myself really drawn to the mirror door ones. I like mirrors.