I ran out of Ski Queen cheese. This is serious. How did I forget to buy more. HOW!? No, no. I must relax. There is always tommorow. Yes, tommorow. But tonight, I am......cheeseless. Time to throw on some Linkin Park.
Because you don't have inventory sheets and par lists. Please tell me you're only doing this to punish yourself for forgetting to buy cheese.
Indeed. It's the only thing more painful than not having cheese. Also slightly more painful than a nut shot.
I'll take the nut shot. As for your cheese problem, the par sheet will be a life saver. Mine looks something like this: Apples: 5 Avocados: 5 Lemons: 3 Pasta: 2# Rice: 2# Butter: 2 sticks Eggs: 18 Wine cooking wine: 2 orders Marsala wine: 2 orders Olive Oil: 4 dressing And so on. When you go shopping, you compare your current inventory levels to you par sheet and "par up" to where you need to be. So my shopping list might be 2 apples, 1 avocado, butter check, pasta check, rice 1#.... And so on. You will never run out of anything. And it will keep your purchases inline and make cooking happy snappy!
I get a haircut about every 3 months so going 6 months without one means I only skipped one. $15 haircut + $3 tip. The twist: I would have gotten one well before the barbershops closed but I was waiting a few extra weeks to get one right before a writers conference. There's been a photographer there the last two years offering cheap headshots so I figured I would upgrade mine while I was there. The barbershops and the conference were closed/cancelled basically at the same time. So here I am, first world whinging.
Making a point to not be so insufferably long-winded. 1. Went to furniture store two weeks ago, asking if the guy had bigger (taller) couch legs. 2. Said he could help me. 3. Two weeks later, lots of phone-tag, lots of dropping by unannounced, still no couch legs. Today though he said his service guy had them, and would be by in the evening. Gave him my phone number. No call. Time to go back there tomorrow. Again. At this point I just want to get the old leg back so I can put the living room back together. At least I got the cushions reupholstered. Probably going to make-up something about how my roommates are angry at me that they can't use the couch, and that I need it back tomorrow.
Should've bought a shorter entertainment center. Ya' live and ya' learn. Couch isn't mine. Roommate was okay with reupholstering the cushions (costing him nothing) and doesn't care about the legs, especially if I hold onto the old ones in case he wants to put them back on in the future. Instead of saving for a recliner I think I'll save for a new entertainment center and sell this one. We'll see. Just frustrated. I got led on in high-school relationships a lot, and I think this is triggering my "PTSD". My roommate would also really care if I can't get the old one back, and this guy fucks me over. All he has to say is "my service guy has it, I don't have the old one here". Which honestly sounds exactly like something he'd say at this point. But. *takes a deep breath* I will give him the benefit of the doubt. Ah, the things one loses sleep over. I'm half-tempted to stay up until 8:00 AM when he opens.
And you can keep the longer ones when you move out in case you need to club a traveling couch salesman over the head and steal his samples.
I'd sooner club myself and get it all over with. In seriousness, he opens at 10. I am going to be there at 9:59. I need to get this couch leg back so I don't have it hanging over my head anymore. At that point I could honestly give a shit what else happens. With that, it's time to try and fall asleep somehow.
First world whinge: I've had Skype for ages and finally convinced some of my older family members to get it so that I can call home for free. It's pretty cheap calling Skype to cell, but not as cheap as free is. But now with the coronavirus situation, Employer A asked that everyone install Zoom on their machines. Had to buy a camera and headset for that since I don't fancy working off my phone and my tablet is too old for the current version. Prolly won't get reimubursed, but I managed to get what I need for under 40 bucks. And I finally know how to use Zoom after a couple of weeks of trial and error. Employer B now wants me to install Microsoft Teams. I did, watched a whole bunch of videos on how to use it that a) were current and b) bore absolutely no resemblance to what I saw on my screen. Windows 10, new-ish machine, just downloaded the app thingy today, and nothing is where it's supposed to be. Still waiting to see what Employer C has in mind next month. Ima cycle to work with a tin can and a spool of kite string. Let them figure it out.
I've never heard of this much couch maintenance, haha. Reupholstering, longer legs, shorter entertainment center... why is couch teasing you so?
Because I don't like sitting in the front row at the movies. So my options were to either raise the couches and work with what I had, because I can't return the entertainment center, or I'd have to sell the entertainment center that I *just* bought, so I can go elsewhere and get a different one. Ideally what I wanted to happen, was I'd do a little home project, raise the couches 4inches or so to offset how high the TV is. In the meantime I'd try to sell the entertainment center online, and put the money from that towards getting a new one, thus solving the problem. Now, instead, I've had one couch that's tipped forward and has a missing leg and hasn't been used for two weeks. And I'm starting to wonder if it will ever get its leg back. I can appreciate that this is humorous, and I'm sure I will find it humorous too when this is all said and done, but at the moment I'm rather upset. I have patience for lots of things, but I do not like being taken advantage of or feeling led-on. Which, coincidentally, is why I hate buying anything from anywhere. I'm too nice, a real people-pleaser, and sales-people swarm me like they're sharks and I'm the blood in the water. Can't sleep because I'm a bit agitated about this, so I'm going to stay-up and go there when he opens at 10. If he gives me the run-around for the dozenth time, I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'm starting to get pissed off. It's not going to be "Hey, how's it going Dave" anymore. I'm fucking annoyed. It's going to be "I thought you were going to call me last night?" He said he would call me. And he didn't. I waited until almost 8pm, having set aside my plans because I thought that I was going to get this thing done today. You can pull that shit once with me, but this is at least the 4th or 5th time he's lied to me. And consequently, this is the third time I've lied to my roommate about the progress on this, because I'm not getting truthful answers to begin with. Luckily I abstained from drinking tonight so nothing to worry about there. I'll play video games for the next 7 hours. I'm not going to have this in the back of my mind when I go up north until next Monday. This shit is getting resolved, somehow, today. He's probably sick of getting a daily call and visit from me, and believe me, I'm pretty tired of having to do it too.
At this point it sounds like it would be easier for you to mount the TV on the ceiling and lie on the floor to watch it. You could sell the couch and the entertainment center and use the proceeds to buy a couple folding chairs for when you want to sit down.
