Mint is only for gum or grandma's homemade tea

This whole couch situation is becoming a major fiasco. Well, more of a fiasco then it has been, I should say.

Bas and I headed out last night to pay a visit to our old friend JenniferLeather (JLe, if you prefer) to pick out a new couch that can fit through the crawl space we refer to as a front door.
We found two couches that were in the same price range, under 30 inches and actually quite lovely. Perfect, right? Just pick the one you love the most and order it. Easy.

Well, hell to the no...life for us could never be that clear-cut and easy. Instead, here's what really happened:

The two couches we liked were both strange (ok, ugly) colors. One was minty green and the other was a shiny go-go boot white. Patent leather. Cute for boots, ugly for couch.
Now, both of these handsome styled couches are offered in an assortment of colors-good, right?

Well, hell to the no...like I said before.

If we want any other colors, it has to be "special ordered" which takes 16 weeks to be delivered. That's how they say it, 16 "weeks." I guess by saying weeks it makes it seem not so long. But the sad truth my friends, is that is 4 damn months! You can't pull the wool on me, I can multiply.
That's just abnormal. And Miss Debra (the JLe design consultant, eh hem) said it's because it comes from Italy. Uh, yeah and.....? Is this 1901? Does it have to be sent over on the Titanic? I could even live with a four week wait for the right color. Four months just ain't happening.

You can only get the colors that Jen displays on the showroom floor in the special two week time period. And JLe decides it's a good idea to display mint green and white patent leather? And you have to SPECIAL ORDER off-white or black?
I'm pretty sure it's wiser to require a person to special order mint because only 4 people in the world are going to pick that color. Meanwhile about 16,000 people would pick normal, neutral tones that match everything. Like off-white and black.
Jenny boasts on her website that she has been around for over 31 years. Well, why hasn't she figured out that mint green is a minority color? C'mon. It's not brain surgery Jen!

And Miss Debra was trying to talk us into liking those colors. Yes she was! Uh, sales people!
If you are going to make an expense purchase on a new leather couch, I'm pretty sure you should love everything about it. Color, Style, Comfort, Durability. Not just the freaking size.

We are going to cancel the order, which they are going to charge us $100 to do. But what other choice do we have? We can't very well settle for ugliness. And we can't agree to the whole disassemble thing. It's too costly and too impractical, given that we are renting and plan to buy a house in the next year or so.
When we first started looking for couches, our second choice was to purchase something from the Door Store: http://www.doorstorefurniture.com/

We'll just get something from there. They have items that reflect our tastes and they actually offer them in an assortment of normal people colors.
And their delivery time?

Two days.

Feels like something's missing

I haven't written for a good few days and so much has happened.

First, I'll start with the damn cable company, Time Warner. Pst. This is the short version of this story. But I assure you, it really was even more ridiculous than this. That damn cable idiot went on our roof to check the signal. He looked around and his diagnosis was that we were receiving a weak signal. Then that fool came back down into our apartment and tracked tar from the roof all over the wood floor. Not to mention the little area rug (that we purchased with a gift certificate we got for our wedding) that was in the the bedroom. Yes, really he did. And I'm not talking about small streaks, I'm talking full on globs of tar. How does a person do that? It looks like a pack of dirty trailer park hound dogs were scattering all throughout the place. And that isn't an exaggeration. Swear.
I haven't attempted to clean it yet, but I'm sure it won't be easy. Or fun. Or funny.
And after all that, the bastard said that he would call someone else to come out to fix the weak signal problem. Uh, excuse me....Isn't that what you're supposed to do? Aren't you the technical guy that we had to wait a whole day for? Without Lost?
So, when I got home I called TW and that asshole didn't call anyone to come fix that shit. There were no notes on the account and the rep on the phone didn't know why someone else had to come out. And to top it all of, now we have to wait until Wednesday for a new appointment. Six more days without cable.
I just might be in the fetal position by then. Naked, dirty and shivering. Because I can't even TiVo anything now either. So, I will completely miss this week's episodes of Lost, the Apprentice, America's Next Top Model, Laguna Beach, Real World and the list goes on. I do understand however, that I will have a few hundred opportunities to catch those MTV shows, so that's not that big of an issue.

Next.

Moving.
Bas and I did a lot of moving this weekend. We filled the truck, drove to Jersey and unpacked the truck. Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday. Cable Guy Waiting Day. From 2-5. He came at 4:45, of course. But I think Comcast (the new cable company) gave us movie channels in the bedroom by mistake. We didn't order them, but they are showing. I hope they don't discover the error. Shhhh! Lucky slip-ups like that rarely ever happen to me.

Sunday. Couch and Coffee Table Waiting Day. From 9-5. They came at 4:30, of course.
After waiting excitiedly (and sitting on the floor) all day to finally get our new apartment furnished, the guys get there and the bring in the table. It's in a box and we unwrap it and take it out. It lookes absolutely beautiful. It it one piece of glass bent at the ends. No metal. No legs. Gorgeous. When I am able to post pictures I'll show it.
While we were opening the box with the table, the two delivery guys went back out to their truck to get our new couch that would be putting the finishing touches to our lovely table and area rug. We start clearing everything to set an easy path for them to get through. The guys get to our front door and lug the couch over the two small steps in our doorway. We are standing there with large grins on our face and looking at each other.
They lift the couch towards the door and.....THUMP! This freaking couch doesn't fit through the front door! Yes. It's a no-go. That couch wasn't going through that door for nothing in the world.
Two more itsy bitsy inches and everything would have been a'ight. We couldn't believe it. Our jaws dropped to our feet. A feeling a defeat rushed though my body.
And because everyone who I tell this story to asks.....No, there is no way to take it in through the window, because that is even smaller.
So, they left with our brand new, beautiful eggshell leather couch. I waved to it, with a tear in my eye, as it left through the building door.
Bas's parents are coming this weekend and we wanted to have everything there. Not gonna happen.
So, Jennifer Leather offered (for a fee of $200) to have someone bring the couch back, take it apart and reassemble it in the house. That would be all good except for the fact that we'll have the same problem when we move out. And it can't be good to keep taking a couch apart. And we definitely plan on keeping the couch for a long time. It costs that much.
So, tonight we are going to go look at other ones and see if they have one that will fit through this narrow ass door. I hope we can find something we like just as much.

But all in all, we are so happy with our new place and we can't wait to fully move in. It's the first place we have gotten TOGETHER as a married couple. Before, I moved into Bas's apartment. So it is definitely something special for both of us.

Now we also have to work on purchasing a car. And since the rain has let up, that is on the agenda for this week.

We are busy, busy folks, huh?