Thermalgal’s Temperate Mumblings

I got my glider!

December 10, 2007 on 1:15 pm | In Uncategorized | 2 Comments

It was the very last one in the store, too.   The couple ahead of us wanted it in tan and ended up having to go to another location to get it.  So the green one was all ours.  Yay!  And we got to use our 15% off coupon.  I have another for this week, so we’ll either get the matching ottoman (if it is in stock) or the crib mattress (not a big hurry since we have the bassinet).  And I have yet another 15% off coupon for next week.

After we got the glider we stopped by Border’s so Scott could get a calender for next year.  And somehow we got 25% off that too (I didn’t realize that just scanning my Border’s card will get me the coupon, I thought we had to print it out).  Then we stopped by AC Moore and I got 30% off that entire purchase (something about Friends and Family, not sure since the casher just scanned something and poof I had 30% off).  In total we saved over $70 on Saturday with all the discounts.

Then Saturday night we went out to dinner before going to the Christmas concert.  We hit a Chinese place that a friend had recommended.  The food was good, but the service was horrible.  It took us half an hour to get our check and pay (and that was after we broke down and asked the bus-boy-lady who had to search down our waiter).  The concert was… strange.  It was the first time I had sat on the audience side of things.  I sat next to Catherine and Noah and probably chatted way too much.  But I agree with Catherine (who was in the clarinet section until Noah was born) that being on stage is 100 times more exciting than being in the audience.  At times it was almost painful and extremely boring.  But I will support my band and be in the audience for the next two concerts that I’m not playing (I’m not going back to practice until after I go back to work).

On Sunday we went to the tree farm and okay that probably wasn’t the wisest thing to do.  I mean I’m 38 weeks pregnant and I went tromping around the tree farm to find the perfect tree.  First thing I did when we got there was ask where the closest fir trees were.  We actually didn’t have to go that far to find “our” tree.  Then Scott chopped it down and haul it back.  All I had to do was walk around, point out trees and drink the free cup of hot cider.

We ended the night by finishing up the closet.  Okay, Scott did all the work while I “supervised” from the glider.  Then I stuffed the shelves to get the middle of the room clear.  The next phase of the closet project is to get shelves above the rods.  But we can wait a bit on that.