We have furniture!

[imbecamiel]

YES! At last, after two years of living in this house, we are finally done with furniture shopping! *collapses* We spent all day today shopping for furniture for our living room - not easy when you live in a triangular house, with a living room shaped like a baseball diamond, and no one can figure out exactly how you're supposed to furnish it. But it looks like we finally have everything picked out! All that remains is to make a final decision on the fabric, which, believe me, is definitely the easy part, especially since by now we already have a pretty good idea of what we're looking for. We just didn't have time to pick it out tonight, because by the time we'd reached a decision the stores were closed. Yeah, it's been a long day. By this point, when someone asked my opinion on something, my response tended to be, "If it means we can be done, I love it." ;P

And on a side note, it's so very wonderful to have a family that, while not quite so geeky over sci-fi and such as Nef and I, are willing to get into the spirit of things. We've been watching a bunch of Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis as a family, and it seems to come up quite often in conversations. For instance: while we were at one of the furniture stores, we were looking at a map of their locations across the country...

Nef, looking at the many orange triangles: "Wow, it looks like they're taking over the world or something."

Dad: "Yeah, it's like those maps of the Replicator invasion of the galaxy." Pause. "You know, everything kind of relates back to Stargate, doesn't it?"

Hehe... Now if only I could get him to see how great Star Trek: TOS is... That, I fear, is a lost cause. *sighs* He really doesn't do so well with poor special effects. Ah well, at least he does like the movies and some of the later series...

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[polingly.livejournal.com]

Oh, my! Has it already been two years since you moved there? *shocked* LOL, you really do sound just like us though...we've been planning to get new furniture for the living room for the past two or three years, but we opted to wait until we actually got the living room done... ;D So maybe in the spring. It's sure to be a harrowing adventure.

And yay for familial geekiness! *cheers* And I think your dad and my mom would get along really well were they to discuss the cheesiness of TOS. We simply cannot have my mom in the same room when we're watching it...she picks on everything. :D

[imbecamiel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's hard to believe, but it's actually been just over two years since we moved here. Weird. Most of the time it feels like it can't have been more than a year... *shakes head*

Hehe, we take sooo long to make decisions like that. I think it took my grandpa five years to finally actually buy his new truck. And I believe we were talking about getting a video camera for at least that long before we did. Hmm, sometimes I think we must have Ents somewhere in our family tree. "Let's not be hasty..." *g*

Good luck on your own furniture shopping! I'm sure you'll soon discover just what a delightful experience it can be :P Do you have a pretty good idea already what you want, or are you going on the whole, "We'll know it when we see it," theory?

Heh, yeah, Nef and I finally decided that we couldn't watch TOS when Dad was around, and it was usually best if Eric wasn't either (Mom usually just wasn't interested, so it wound up being just the two of us). Doesn't mix too well when we're relaxing, ignoring the dumb parts or bad effects as best we can, and loving the characters, and they're doing a running commentary picking everything to pieces :P Ah, family, gotta love 'em... Least everyone (even Dad!) loves Stargate, so the nitpicking tends to be kept to a minimum there.