New week - the calm before

[susandennis]

Tomorrow the cabinet maker will deliver the new pieces and the installer will begin installation. Once the pieces are installed, then the wall holes (caused by the electrician) will need to be patched and then the painter comes in and then the electrician comes back to finish. Sheri thinks this will all be finished by Friday. I hope that is so but I am not kidding myself. She can design a room that I love but time management is at the bottom of her skills poll.

So, tomorrow starts upheaval that will end eventually, I hope.

I now have a dining room table and no dining room chairs. The no chairs thing was on purpose. I wanted to see how the table looked and how I might use it before I got chairs. I'm glad I did because I now hate the chairs I would have picked.

I absolutely want chairs. I thought sitting on my various ottoman's would work but the only one comfortably tall enough is the one I have to get rid of because Travis has clawed it to death. So... the chair hunt is on. My current thought is to get a couple of these:



or these:



Both of them come in various colors... also the top one is 17.75" seat height and the second one is 18.5" which is quite a difference. they are about the same price.

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Work looks like it's going to be pretty slow this week which is ok since there will be a lot of other stuff going on.

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I am done with the whole Mike Daisy thing. I am a little astounded by the breadth of coverage it is getting and that the story is not, apparently, dying any time soon. I think This American Life is probably a little more culpable than they are willing to admit. I think (and have since his first Amazon 'play') should never be taken for a truth teller. He is a good story teller but his stories always have been suspect. He's got a lot of Michael Moore in him and the fist time out of the gate Michael Moore proved to me that he was a truth bender of the highest order.

I enjoy a good documentary but I am not a fan of those in which the documentarian is the 'star' of the show.

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I am so looking forward to my swim today. I think I'm going go early. The pool is available at 11 and I think I'll get there then. I miss it on Sundays but that makes Monday's swim even more fun.

Comments

[earthmother45.livejournal.com]

hard choice ~~ mytwocents: I love the color of the second one and the design of the first one. If you could sit in them and see which is more comfortable, that might help you decide.

[susandennis]

Both are online so no sitting in either one - also no guarantee that the color will look like the picture.

[joyce.livejournal.com]

I listened to the This American Life Retraction episode today, and his whole attitude - repeated over and over - was that this is theater and that audiences don't expect strict truth from the theater. I wanted to pop him a good one.

[susandennis]

Yeah, and I wanted to grill Ira on why they didn't do their homework to start with!

[joyce.livejournal.com]

Yea, they effed up and they knew it. At least they're getting out in front of it, but... gah. :)

[fj.livejournal.com]

Which ones stack? Stacking is useful in appartment chairs.

[susandennis]

Both! Nice feature, the stacking. I wish someone made a comfortable, sexy, colorful folding chair... now, that would be my real chair of choice!

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I'd like to venture an opinion. I really like the second chair in that lime green color!