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| In keeping with the tradition of my oddly-posed pictures, here's another creepy addition:
We were celebrating our po-po's birthday when the weirdo in the background unknowingly and unwittingly passed through as a picture was being taken. What an idiot.
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| Our church "C" league softball team just concluded its 1-7 season with a loss in the first round of the playoffs. I was mentally heartbroken but physically relieved to welcome the off-season rest to my weary body. Here is a picture posted on Facebook of yours truly:
This was between innings and as you can tell, I was completely enjoying myself. I'm not quite sure what I was doing when this picture was taken, but I'm sure you can take a few guesses. Notice the "constipated" facial expression and the gross contortions of my right hand finger joints. I can't wait till next season!
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| I didn't realize it's been almost 9 months since our last entry. We'll start it off with a picture:
We came home to find this mess in our kitchen. Apparently Mochi and Lychee like to consume compost-like trash. They had toppled over the green basket, eaten through the bag and tore everything up all over the carpet tiles. Nice.
Other than cleaning up after the dogs and painting various rooms in the house, we haven't been doing much.
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| How much would you pay for this media console?
Now that we're homeowners, we can finally buy furniture that will look nice in a house instead of items that will fit in a small apartment. One of the pieces that Lana had her eye on was the Era media console from Crate & Barrel. This particular piece of furniture also caught my eye; however, it was the 4-digit price tag that severely detached my retina and inverted my lens. The list price for this media console is $1499.
That's right: one thousand four hundred ninety-nine dollars. If you look closely, you can see the 24-karat gold hinges with diamond-encrusted handles... what, you don't see them either? Isn't this ridiculous? Fifteen hundred dollars for a TV stand? Does the wood come from the endangered trees in the Amazon rain forest? Was this an original Da Vinci design? Did Michelangelo himself personally carve this thing from scratch? Whatever the case, pigs would have to fly into outer space before I'd okay a purchase like that.
So, Crate & Barrel delivered the console to our home a few Saturdays ago and we've been enjoying it ever since.
Here's the story:
On our way to visit Lychee's breeder in Colfax, we stopped by Roseville to check out some stores. We were walking around Crate & Barrel and noticed that a lot of their floor samples were on sale. I stopped to use the restroom, and when I came out, Lana was checking out the Era media console floor sample. The red tag had been marked down several times from the orignial price of $1499 to an astonishing... $329. We thought it was too good to be true, but there it was: an awesome media console for an awesome price. It was in excellent condition (a PSA 9 for all you baseball card nerds) and definitely too good of a deal to pass up. We ended up buying a few other floor sample items to decorate our house with.
The moral of the story? Never pay full price for anything when you can get it used for a fraction of the cost (this moral does not apply to underwear or socks, unless you're a fan of jock itch and onychomycosis).
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