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Jun. 30th, 2009 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI have a bathing suit. This is a huge relief. It even cost a little less than I was prepared to pay.
We got to Sunny J's a few minutes before it opened. The lady across the hall with a yarn store opened a few minutes early so we could wander through and covet her goods. I wish I could have justified spending money on more yarn because some of it was gorgeous, just expensive.
I tried on six items at Sunny J's, one top, two bottoms and three one pieces. Neither of the bottoms were wearable. The larger gapped at the waist while still being too tight lower down. All three one pieces fit. The first had, um, more daring cleavage than I'm inclined toward, but felt the best. The other two had a mildly itchy band around the chest but otherwise fit. I too the one that was cheaper. It's a nice blue with a flower and bits in purple, black and white, much prettier than I feared I'd end up with.
The whole process took under twenty minutes. Cordelia amused herself by crawling back and forth under the privacy curtain of the changing room. I'm not sure what evalerie and her little one were doing. Well, he was sitting in the carrier on her back, so he was probably mostly just looking around.
Then we went to IKEA. I signed Cordelia into the play area, and evalerie, the little one, and I went upstairs to try out dining room chairs.
I'm very glad that we have someone willing to bring folding chairs tomorrow for the game. I didn't find any chairs that I absolutely loved. I found two or three that I would find mostly tolerable but that I'm not sure don't have hidden flaws that Scott might note. I'm also thinking that we may need to buy a couple of chairs in different styles. That foot of height difference (about 30.5 cm for those using a sane system of measurement) makes a big difference in terms of what's comfortable for each of us in sitting.
I also want a little time to consider whether any of the ones that were uncomfortable would be better with cushions. Those are for sale separately and add about $13 to the price of each chair. They also add height which is a bad thing for me and a good thing for Scott. Later on, I may post my list of chairs to consider, complete with links, assuming anybody'd be interested. Then again, posting would mean having the information somewhere besides the notes folded up and stuffed in my purse.
We got home just minutes before Cordelia's afternoon playdate was due to start. I'd called the other mother last night to let her know that we might be late and then called her again to let her know that we'd be home about the time we'd originally discussed for pickup. Cordelia's out of the house and out of my hair for a couple of hours now.
I'm going to work on sorting laundry after I relax a little (probably with a Wii game). We've got four loads of clean stuff to sort, fold and put away. We also now have a pretty good idea of what's wrong with the washer which is that the laundry tub drain is backing up badly. That can be fixed without working on the washer, thank goodness. We just need to snake it. We already knew that the main drain down there needed work (we're getting drain stench, not a good thing when we'll have guests sleeping down there in a week and a half).
One thing off the list at a time.
We got to Sunny J's a few minutes before it opened. The lady across the hall with a yarn store opened a few minutes early so we could wander through and covet her goods. I wish I could have justified spending money on more yarn because some of it was gorgeous, just expensive.
I tried on six items at Sunny J's, one top, two bottoms and three one pieces. Neither of the bottoms were wearable. The larger gapped at the waist while still being too tight lower down. All three one pieces fit. The first had, um, more daring cleavage than I'm inclined toward, but felt the best. The other two had a mildly itchy band around the chest but otherwise fit. I too the one that was cheaper. It's a nice blue with a flower and bits in purple, black and white, much prettier than I feared I'd end up with.
The whole process took under twenty minutes. Cordelia amused herself by crawling back and forth under the privacy curtain of the changing room. I'm not sure what evalerie and her little one were doing. Well, he was sitting in the carrier on her back, so he was probably mostly just looking around.
Then we went to IKEA. I signed Cordelia into the play area, and evalerie, the little one, and I went upstairs to try out dining room chairs.
I'm very glad that we have someone willing to bring folding chairs tomorrow for the game. I didn't find any chairs that I absolutely loved. I found two or three that I would find mostly tolerable but that I'm not sure don't have hidden flaws that Scott might note. I'm also thinking that we may need to buy a couple of chairs in different styles. That foot of height difference (about 30.5 cm for those using a sane system of measurement) makes a big difference in terms of what's comfortable for each of us in sitting.
I also want a little time to consider whether any of the ones that were uncomfortable would be better with cushions. Those are for sale separately and add about $13 to the price of each chair. They also add height which is a bad thing for me and a good thing for Scott. Later on, I may post my list of chairs to consider, complete with links, assuming anybody'd be interested. Then again, posting would mean having the information somewhere besides the notes folded up and stuffed in my purse.
We got home just minutes before Cordelia's afternoon playdate was due to start. I'd called the other mother last night to let her know that we might be late and then called her again to let her know that we'd be home about the time we'd originally discussed for pickup. Cordelia's out of the house and out of my hair for a couple of hours now.
I'm going to work on sorting laundry after I relax a little (probably with a Wii game). We've got four loads of clean stuff to sort, fold and put away. We also now have a pretty good idea of what's wrong with the washer which is that the laundry tub drain is backing up badly. That can be fixed without working on the washer, thank goodness. We just need to snake it. We already knew that the main drain down there needed work (we're getting drain stench, not a good thing when we'll have guests sleeping down there in a week and a half).
One thing off the list at a time.
