NY Pricetags, ha ha!

So it’s time to buy furniture and we haven’t made it to IKEA since the subway to or from that direction is under construction. Ah, public transportation… Anywho, today we walked around our neighborhood and Soho and popped our heads into whatever furniture store came our way. We saw some really nice things, some really crappy things and some in-betweeners. The last store we both went to was tres chic with a price tag to match. We fell in love with quite a few items, particularly a chair (normal sitting chair, not a lazy boy or anything like that) and asked for the price. The lady said it sells for $9,000. That’s right, you’re not reading a typo. She mentioned it’s the most expensive chair in the store. That’s the kind of taste we apparently have. Here I was ready to buy two, but never mind. As Mark said, that’s the price of a car. So most likely, when you all come to visit, we’ll lounge in possibly pimped out IKEA stuff. If not, it will be just regular IKEA stuff.

Let’s see, what else is new? Finally made it to the laundromat, hooray, clean clothes! A lot of places here have either self-service, where you do your own laundry, or drop-off service, where you drop your laundry off at the place and they wash/dry/fold it for you. Sometimes they even deliver it to your house. Sounds nice but on a regular basis, that gets expensive. So we did our own laundry, forgot softener, dryer sheets and change to actually operate the machines. We were obviously the only rookies there. The Chinese guy washing/drying/folding someone else’s clothes helped us out. We were there a couple of hours which was kind of nice because it gave us a chance to do nothing else besides read and relax. And do crossword puzzles.

Thanks for taking the time to read the latest about us. For now, that’s all folks.