Weekend Shopping

I am here to tell you, it matters not how long you have dated someone before getting married. You will inevitably be bombarded with new finds about your significant other once you begin the merging of assets. One year, two years, six years...it matters not.

Ten months ago, I caught alot of grief for my loveseat wannabe couch. You might remember previous posts. (Here's a reminder if not -- Loveseat, Not so Loving, The loveseat is now a loving couch .) Problem fixed - new couch. Well, it seems my lovely fiance does not share my approval of the replacement piece. Or the squeaky side chairs. Or the coffee table. Etc... There is a comment about every piece I own. I ask, "Just what do you like in my apartment?" His response was "Your tv and blu-ray player." Excellent. He is willing to marry me for my tv and dvd player.
I can just see his face at this point reading my post. :) It is likely he will want to create his own blog just to tell his side of every blog story I write about from now on because he'll say, "That's not true...you don't listen to me." Ha

So, today I found myself shopping for a new everything to our new house. Agh. We actually ended up with a cute leather couch and leather recliner. It has finally happened - the recliner will be coming in within the week. An online picture is not available of the recliner so you'll have to imagine...

We also got a new refrigerator today. Turns out those things are NOT cheap. Our appliances are stainless and black so we got a new side by side stainless one from Home Depot. I don't know how interested anyone may happen to be in this kind of thing but I added a picture below. Here's an interesting fact though - steel fridges come in true stainless steel and what is called clean steel. A true stainless steel fridge will not hold a magnet. Clean steel will however. I turned out to prefer the true stainless steel. So years down the road we will not be able to hang kid's artwork on the fridge. Who knew that would be a heavy consideration. It's un-American to not hang bad artwork on the fridge, right?