New Furniture Part 1

Rod and I picked out some beautiful

new brown leather furniture

to give each other for Christmas this year.

A 3 person couch with recliners

on each end,

and a single chair with an

ELECTRIC recliner!

(The manual one was a rocker too

and just didn't feel very sturdy.)

The chair was on back order,

so we moved the delivery to today

so we could get all of it together.

Then last week I got a call that

the chair was still on back order

and wouldn't be here until the first

week in January.

But the couch was still on schedule.

Well, ok, we can work with that.

But first we needed to do some

"minor" repairs to the wall

where our current recliners

have chewed it up.

I'm so lucky to be married to a man who

knows how to do EVERYTHING

and doesn't grumble when I ask him to do stuff.

We bought some hole filler stuff

that goes on pink and turns white 

when it dries.

There was quite a bit of damage.

Next he bought some spray on stuff

that ends up looking like the orange peel

the rest of the walls were done in.

He sprayed it on

(but I didn't take a picture)

and then when it was dry,

he painted it.

Presto!

Perfection!

And just in time for the new furniture!

Which didn't come.

Sigh.

The truck was full, so they didn't load our couch.

(It comes from the factory to the store

in Orlando and then they send one truck

per week to our local store...)

I called this afternoon to confirm we

could come over and pick it up.

And that's when I found out it wasn't coming.

So the bad news is we don't have 

our new furniture yet.

But the good news is we will

(fingers crossed)

get the couch and chair together

on January 3.

Which still gives us time for my

darling (and long suffering)

husband to climb into the attic

and moving the cable wires to the opposite

wall so we can spin the living room around.

We are going to try putting the TV on the wall

the couch used to be on.

And putting the couch on the wall the TV was on.

We have a large TV.

When I'm standing in the kitchen,

looking over the breakfast bar

into the living room,

all I can see is the back of a big black TV.

So I'm kind of looking forward to this.

But first we are going to see if it even works.

I'm kind of afraid the sun might come in

through the french doors and put a

big ol' glare on it making it unworkable.

But we'll see.

We have a week to mess with it.