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Finally! We actually bought a couch instead of just talking/thinking about it. Partly this is because we’re getting a bunch of money back from taxes, so we have plenty of money to buy it with. We’re getting a La-z-boy reclining couch that has this little built in table in the middle that folds down. We didn’t absolutely need the little foldy table, but the couch we liked best comes with it, so it’s just like a bonus. We had been to the La-z-boy store a few times, but they only had that couch in this really ugly brown color, and to order it in a nicer color would have been several hundred dollars more expensive, not to mention having to wait a long time to get it. We went there yesterday hoping that their “36 hour” sale would include discounts on ordering. But, of course, it didn’t. So, we decided to stop by ArtVan, just to see what they had in the way of reclining couches. As it turned out, they had the exact same La-z-boy couch, but it was in a much, much better color. So we decided to get it. We call it red, but really it’s this kind of dark burgandy color. Ideally, we had wanted blue, but if you look around our apartment, the main theme in other rooms seems to be that same kind of red and black. So it will fit with the rest of the house. Also, the fabric has little flecks of blue in it, so our blue curtains will still match. Not that anything in our living room really matches. We have such as bizarre mix of stuff. They would hate us on Trading Spaces. Actually, they would probably like us because we wouldn’t be afraid to say what we liked and what we hated, but they would hate our stuff and not put any of it back into the room when it was finished. Anyway, we have a couch — or will when it arrives on Wednesday. People will be welcome to to drop by to see it (or sit on it to watch hockey) if they’d like.

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