Saturday was way cool!!

Friday night before I went to bed, I remember I had begun to have that old, sad feeling of 'nothing really good is going on here and its a nose-to-the-grindstone kind of life for me in this house'. I reminded myself that something really good could happen at any time using the example of being rather suddenly cured of a horrendous sleep disorder earlier this year.

Regular readers know that I like things clean and yet my husband and all but one of my daughters are all a mess waiting to happen. I hate that. Which, strangely, brings me to the topic of a giant living room sectional sofa which had become the bane of my existence. It was one of those jobs where every single section is made up of removable cushions. Yes, the kind that slide all around and will never, ever be neat when such furniture is used by careless people. This big heavy sofa had big heavy cushions, too. And people would flop all around on them and dislodge them and nothing I tried made them stay put. It was not unusual at all for me to find that the husband had taken off his T-shirts while flopping around the living room and that said T-shirts had lodged behind the cushions so they could not be pushed back in until the entire sofa was taken apart and the offending laundry and other items removed. Yep. They are slobs. Which is why I stopped going in the living room a few months ago. I couldn't stand it anymore because there was never a comfortable place to sit unless I worked for it first. And I am not the one who flops around on furniture or loses my belongings among the many cushions.

A wonderful thing happened Saturday. I had the hub post the offending sectional for sale a couple of weeks ago. I made the price very, very low hoping that someone would want it seeing that it was a very expensive piece of furniture for such a cheap price. Of course the add also had to be honest because the sectional needed to be cleaned quite well since I had finally had enough and had abandoned it to the slobs. We finally got a call on it from people who did not mind cleaning it up and now the living room is rather naked. Much to my pure glee. And so I scrubbed and cleaned the room and stripped it bare to make room for this, which will be delivered Monday.





NO CUSHIONS MOVE. The whole freaking thing is ONE PIECE. And it can be wiped clean instead of me having to drag out the upholstery cleaner all the time. Notice the sofa bed it can recline into. Maybe my son will come home and sleep there for a while some day. I don't yet know where I will find a complimentary loveseat, I only know that I will. I will surely enjoy the minimalist feel of the living room in the meanwhile.

And where did I get the hope and the energy to clean out the room after I had already begun to descend again into the sadness of my environment? I borrowed it from the memory of these very fabulous 'ladies' I met in Key West.



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This particular performer was quite exceptional. She put on a very high-energy show that really made me want to get up off my ass and do something. And will you check out those arms? I'm a little jealous. But in a good way.