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[the_rck]

One of our dining room chairs broke last night. The seat split. The seat and back area a single piece of contoured plastic, so I don't see any way to repair the dratted thing. This leaves us with a lot of folding chairs (which I find very uncomfortable) and one wooden chair that is reasonably comfortable. We bought the wooden chair and the plastic chair (two of those, actually, but the second broke more than a year ago) from IKEA years ago after I went there and sat in every chair I could find. Those two models were the only two I rated at four out of five for comfort. There wasn't anything I gave a five.

Someone signed up to do art for my WIP Big Bang fic, so I really, really have to finish the dratted thing. I'm just not sure how well I'll do with it. I've got so many chores that must be done, and Cordelia's around constantly, and... Today, I need to change the sheets, run the dishwasher, wash my clothes and the sheets I take off the bed (the sheets can wait for tomorrow if they have to. The clothes can't because I'm wearing my last clean shirt). I also need to do all of the yard sale preparation today because tomorrow will be taken up by other things and Wednesday (I hope) Scott's parents will come down to get the stuff and Cordelia.

I also have a fairly long list of things that I need to work on, a few minutes at a time, for quite a while. Sorting and shelving things we're keeping, pulling things we're not (I'd like to do all of that immediately, but realistically, I can't). Sorting through bins of junk in the living room, basement, and Cordelia's room to see what we can throw away and then finding homes for things we're keeping. I need to get Cordelia to cooperate with the work on her room, and I think that will be hard even if I'm only asking for ten minutes at a time.

I was expecting Cordelia to be out of the house by now because she said she was going to visit a friend. Another friend, however, has come to visit, and they're watching Age of Ultron. That friend brought lunch. I think they're heading out to the other friend's house at some point (by bus!), but I don't know for sure. I'm still hoping they'll go because even an hour to myself would be golden.

The other in transit library holds didn't end up coming in until this morning, so we won't need a mid-week trip to the library after all. That's a help.

I'm trying to weed my iTunes library. There're a lot of albums in there that I don't actually care about at all. I've listened to them half a dozen times without connecting to any of the songs. I expect I could listen to them half a dozen times more and still not connect. Most of them are things that are just fine in terms of my musical taste, but, if I'm not planning to listen to them again, why keep them on my hard drive? I've got almost 9000 songs on my laptop. Maybe 200 of them are audiobook tracks that I will delete after I listen to them, but much of the rest is stuff that I haven't listened to in two or more years. Some of that, I still want to keep, but I'm trying to evaluate everything, case by case.

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[icecoldrain.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how hard it is to find a comfortable chair! My mom and I chose our living room table based on how comfortable the seats were lol. We found the sets that we liked that were in our price range, and then we sat in the seats for all of them and went for there. The set was on clearance, so it was a great deal! That said, those chairs are a 4/5 like the ones you're talking about.

[the_rck]

I think we may need to look for chairs somewhere other than IKEA. I'm not sure how long those two lasted, but we may have been penny wise.

My problems with chairs are that sharp edges hurt after only a few seconds and that I'm only 5'2". Furniture in general isn't built for people my height.

[icecoldrain.livejournal.com]

You might. I've never gotten any furniture from IKEA, so I can't say anything about the quality. I only know that we got the best laundry baskets every from them lol.

We got our living room table and chairs (it was a set) for a very good price at Living Spaces. Their clearance section is usually awesome! However, it's def trial and error comfort wise. I have back problems and my mom's your height with knee problems. Together, we were looking for something comfortable with support that was in our price range. If you have one near you, I would say check them out!

[the_rck]

Sadly, I'm in Michigan, and Living Spaces seems to only be in California and Arizona, at least if the website I found is accurate.

[icecoldrain.livejournal.com]

You're most likely right! I don't know how many places that Living Spaces is in. I know that IKEA is just about everywhere, but Living Spaces is one of those places that we think is everywhere, but isn't lol. If you guys ever get one, def check them out!