sofa, so good

What a lovely Sunday morning, that I have spent inside on the (NEW!) sofa, veging out after a 5am wake up call. J left again this morning for another business trip - he was home 2nights 1day, lol.

But it was an eventful day yesterday - he suggested we head off furniture shopping again. I have to admit that I was SOOOOO over Ikea and didn't want to go, but there was a rug there that he liked, and wanted to buy, as well as some more bits and pieces, so we went along. Turned out to be the right decision, as we came back with a great sofa, at a great bargain! It was reduced in price as it was the last in the range. Oh, and probably because of the colour - it is turquoise blue!!!!!!!! Sooooooo not what we were thinking of at ALL, but suprisingly, when I saw it out of the corner of my eye in the store, I thought it looked cool, and so did J. Now having it in the living room, I think it looks really good - a definate "feature". And I think it compliments the rug that we had in mind too, and goes with the black/brown tv and display cabinets. So all is good.

Getting it home was a bit of a nightmare though - it comes in 2 pieces, and while one fit in the back of the van, one had to be thrown onto the roof-racks - we got it up there, only to realise that the car wouldn't be able to get out of the carpark, so had to get it down again, drive the car around to the loading bay outside and throw it up again! In front of everyone eating their Ikea hot dogs! I am sure it was a great spectacle to watch.

Got the smaller part of the lounge upstairs somehow, but the bigger part was not gonna fit up the stairs, so J had the bright idea of us lifting it up the slope at the side of the house, which is like a super steep grassy slope, and in through the living room window. I was shit-scared of doing this, as I had vision of me letting go and J tumbling to the ground only to be squashed by a big turquoise lounge suite. Anyway, as luck would have it, the house next door has been sold, and there were workmen in there yesterday (landscaping the back yard, making a wood deck, by the looks of it) and when they saw us about to pull the lounge off the roof, they kindly offered to help lift it up! Sure saved me! So now I am comfortably sitting/lying on lounge (it is a corner sofa).

Also got a new fridge last night - it will arrive probably next Saturday. Again, I think we got a pretty good bargain. It is a 475L fridge (compared to our current "bar fridge" at a measly 183L). I am *so* excited to have a fridge so large. It was the largest fridge that we could fit up the stairs (it is one of the narrow makes). Anything bigger and it would have to be lifted up over the balcony, at an extra 30,000yen or more.

Once the fridge comes, we will have more of an idea of how much extra space we have in the kitchen to put some sort of crockery cabinet and one of those Japanese space saving cabinets with the sliding bench for the microwave oven/coffee maker/ blender and whatever other electrical appliances there are.

It is kinda amazing how quickly you can fill a whole house, lol!