if you give E a couch..

Did anyone ever read the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"? It’s an adorable book about a cute little mouse's simple request that evolves into increasingly complicated requests and their messy consequences, eventually tiring the other person to exhaustion. “If you give a mouse a cookie.. he is going to want a glass of milk… if you give a mouse a glass of milk he is going to want a straw”… or something like that. I haven’t read it in years, I passed that reading level a few years ago but I remember the moral of the story but that doesn’t stop me from being the “mouse”.

You see, our couches finally came! As I’m sure you rememeber, we’ve been sitting on the loveseat for the last 3 months.

We ordered furniture Memorial weekend and we JUST got it. I understand why it takes so long, it’s a custom couch (we choose a new fabric and a new “layout”) but I don’t understand why it took THAT long. We bought the sectional and chair from MACYS, thought  I was being fancy and all but in reality all it was was stressful, nothing fancy or glamorous about it. We got an email on July 4^th say that the couches were ready for delivery and to call to schedule the delivery time. That I did, I listened to the 20 different automated prompts, pushed 1 and then 2 and said my name 4 times ( “Erin”.. “Errr- INN:”… “no! ER-IN”….”NO! AARON?”.. finally for most of you people these two names sound alike but they’re not.. don’t even get me started.) moving on, we scheduled it for Friday the 13^th at 9:15am. A week and a half later but it was fine! I called back to confirm the time and the automated system didn’t even have my appointment scheduled! Long story short, I called a few times. First I was patient, understanding and hopeful that they would be able to get us back on to Friday. Then after a few unreturned follow up phone calls I began to get anxious, annoyed but still hopeful. Wrong.  Then I got pissed, mean and drunk. We finally set it up for Monday the 16^th, RC took off of work in the morning so he could be there to pop out the front window and help the movers. I would have been there but RC doesn’t trust me to carry anything breakable so the glass windows were out of the question. Monday morning comes and we get a call, MOVING TRUCK IS BROKEN DOWN ON IT’S WAY FROM NEW JERSEY. This will just get added to the lists of things I hated about Macys and the list of things I hate about Jersey.

Not the end of the world but mind you, we have no furniture to sit on. We sold our loveseat on Sunday and cleared out the living room:

So to the man cave we went. I wasn’t allowed to watch The Bachelorette or anything on TLC. Like i said, not the end of the world but coupled with the drama of scheduling the stupid appointment it was a perfect storm. Good news is- they came today and it’s beautiful.

This is where the mouse comes in, now we need curtains, shelves, and throw pillows. It. Never. Ends. The furniture is great, I'm just not used to all of that beige and all of that furniture. Give me a few days though!