new meme from chillguru

I like this one, since I can hardly keep my interest list below fifty...

* Scan my interest list. List the one that seems the most odd to you or that you are the most curious about.

* I’ll explain it.

* Then you post this in your journal so other people can ask you about your interests.

the exciting acquisition of used items which are black

For once, a subject line that says exactly what it means!

So, a few days ago my partner found a pair of lightly used size eight men's Corcoran's on ebay. Whee!! So, he bid on them for me. I told him my top price was ninety dollars. I got them for exactly half of that, including expedited shipping so my feet can be warm. Yay!

Earlier today, I was taking a walk with redjo, and I saw a nifty black chair out in front of Porter Square Furniture. It is a padded swivel chair. I remarked to her about how I wished I could have a reading chair like that in my bedroom, but there just wasn't room for one. I came back, had an intense moment of inspiration and then some extended moments of furniture-moving and stuff-clearing, and discovered that, in fact, there IS room for a chair in my room. Better yet, it's in a cozy corner right next to the radiator. So rather than snuggling up for a nap with starkeymonster like I had promised, instead I dragged her down to the discount furniture store, where I purchased the chair for twenty-five dollars, discount included for paying cash and taking it away that day.

Now I just need someone to drive me somewhere I can rent a steam cleaner. It's not smelly, thank the goddess, but it is kind of dirty. Also, I think we have to take the door off its hinges to fit it in. But that's totally okay.

Whee, used black things!

Plus, after this time of intense brokeness, I am now in the good habit of pinching the pennies until they scream. I like it when I'm in that space.