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Comments (71)It was not love at first sight. I thought he was too serious, aloof and self assured. It was the summer before my senior year of college and his sister and I had become friendly while working at the same store. He was 2 years older, teaching bio-chem and every now and then he would come into the shop to give his sister a ride home after work. He barely acknowledged my presence, giving the impression that he had better things to do then make small talk with his younger sister's friend. Yet I noticed that as the summer progressed he came in more frequently and even managed an occasional hello. My brother had a new boat and we made plans to spend the day at my parents' lake house, picnicking and water skiing. My girlfriend asked if she could bring her brother and since we needed an extra driver and car I agreed. Spending the day together I realized that I had misread him. Yes he was serious. I was right about that. He still is. But he was also shy, quiet, thoughtful with a keen intellect and a a strong inner desire to do good, to help, to teach. We dated for 2 years and became engaged while I was in grad school. I graduated that August and a week later he left for medical school. I applied for jobs in the same city so that we could get married. I found a job as a librarian and we married at the end of his second year. As a new employee I wasn't entitled to vacation time so we planned our wedding for June because Flag Day was a city holiday and the library was closed. I even had to take a 'day without pay' so that I could get a long weekend. We married on Saturday and we both returned to work on Monday. We recently celebrated our 40th anniversary and DH will retire from his oncology practice soon. He is still serious and thoughtful with an inquisitive mind and a philosophical streak. I think it might be time to take an official honeymoon. This post was edited by maire_cate on Wed, Feb 12, 14 at 6:04...See MoreIs Omnia Leather Sofa good quality?
Comments (12)I was in the market for leather furniture that had larger than average seat height and depth; I'm 6'. After several visits to the store and research, I decided on the Omnia Kingsbury sofa and chair with a Grade 3 leather. A whopping $5,000 purchase. My sales rep was very friendly and informative. The order took approx. 8 week before delivery. I was so excited to get the call that the furniture was in but after examination of the quality I am disappointed. There are several bruises in the leather on the front of the sofa cushions and the chair's cushion has a permanent indentation after only having the furniture for two months! The integrity of the furniture is just not there. If I had to do it all over again, I would not have purchased Omnia! I am not a happy camper. The seams are not even, all of the cushions are filled with different levels of filler and I ordered firm seat cushions but they are not. Based on the quality and integrity of this furniture, I could have gone to Raymour or Ashley, save thousands. Shame on you Omnia for charging $2,700 for the sofa and $2,300 for the chair. Definitely not worth it!...See MoreSo Many Opinions!
Comments (14)Thank you, everyone! JDez - me too with the styles that don't go together. I love rustic farmhouse type stuff, but I live in a small brick rowhome in a big city. I love the glitz of the recycled glass countertops - but tend to like warm, understated everything else. I really like your idea of picking one thing I really love - and designing the rest around it. Andreak - it is overwhelming! I have been going through magazines, and going to local big box stores, etc. to get ideas & see what I liked. Below, I've linked an online Quiz from KitchenMaid to ID style. I was really skeptical, but, in the end, it did identify the style that I'm finding myself drawn to, despite having thought I'd be drawn to another. It also nailed the style of a friend. Kitten - yeah. The layout. I have hired a designer to help me with that part. I knew that those skill sets were way out of my range, so I'm trusting that she'll come up with some plans that will work. It's a small, awkward space, but I'm betting she'll be able to re-tool it in ways that never would have occurred to me. Smiling - I really, really like what you say about planning for the life you actually do live. And I think you've touched on one of the fundamental problems I'm having. I'm 48, single & live alone, I don't cook much and plan to stay in this house pretty much forever. But then I think "someday I might take up cooking" and "someday, I may meet the partner of my dreams & he might move in with me & he might love to cook" and "I think I'll live in this house forever, but maybe I'll meet that partner of my dreams who has a dream-house by the ocean in the mountains in the south of France & he'll ask me to move in with him - you know, after he sweeps me off my feet with his white stallion & chariot - and then I won't be able to sell my house because I have no dishwasher." OK, I bet you're getting my point by now. Debra - I did look at the sweeby test a few weeks ago. Helpful stuff, and, as I mentioned, the quiz below kinda pegged me despite my initial skepticism. Snookums - really good advice, and why I met with a designer. The designer came over & spent a lot of time talking to me - what I like, don't like, etc, before she took measurements. She should get back to me in a week or so with some layout proposals. I can't imagine how overwhelmed I'd be if I were doing layout on my own! Anyway, for now, I'm leaving that part to her - which leaves everything else for me to obsess about! Thank again, everyone. I'm excited and happy about all this, but it feels like the biggest decision since I bought my house - and, despite me not planning to go "high-end" on my kitchen, I anticipate this investment costing some three times the down payment on my house. Here is a link that might be useful: KitchenMaid Style Quiz...See MoreYour City
Comments (62)Southwold, Ontario (near London) has a 5-way "Stop" signed corner, Ron. Post office is small - about 20' on each side. There's a building that used to be a store, but now is closed. A truck backs up to the back sometimes and when I ask what goes on there ... they tell me that they raise bait worms. There's a trucking company about 200 feet south. The aboriginal settlement nearby is having a big furniture sale next week ... on Ball Park Road. They are not a reservation - part of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Oneidas bought their own land, many years ago. My landlord would explain how sod-farming works - he says that it takes two or three days for some companies to roll out a trailer-load of sod ... I think about 36 skids ... but his guys and he lay one in one day. I could show you my garden ... that I must clean up, now that snow's gone. While I was hitch-hiking to the "Old Farts (Senior Men's) Coffee Hour" at church yesterday, (a young aboriginal woman with a baby in the back seat gave me a ride) I found a lot of beer and pop cans along the side of the road. We can take a dozen garbage bags, you travelling one side of the road and I running the other ... ... at 10 cents a can recycling fee for beer cans and liquor bottles and about 2 cents scrap price for a pop can ... ... we could collect enough in an afternoon to go out to dinnner ... well, maybe lunch ... (coffee, maybe: if Starbucks, just us, but we could invite some friends if we go to Tim's). Then home to rub liniment on the sore muscles ... before bed. A bit short of space - there's another single in my bedroom (I'd have to clear the flying clothes off) and a double in the guest room. We could put up another single in the family room. If there's another person, you could have my bed and I'd use the sleeping bag on the chesterfield (couch) ... or the floor: I think that the air mattress still holds air. We could take a tour (about two miles away) of Toronto's new "landfill" (that's a double four-letter word for "dump") that's a couple of miles away, over by Highway 401, the Windsor-Toronto-Montreal Expressway. I expect that they'll build a new exit for the 140 or so trucks that will stop travelling to Michigan and drop their stuff near here, in a couple of years. Nearby London has Storybook Gardens, headquarters of John Labatt Brewery (used to be locally owned ... now somewhere in Europe). They sponsored the civic-owned John Labatt Centre, arena for Junior hockey that provides players for the N H L. There's an Agricultuiral Exhibition Centre, TV station and some flee markets ...oh, something wrong with the spelling, did you say? Used to be a biscuit/candy factory, but they closed. Oh - there's a cookie factory (Archway, Hollandia - similar to Voortmans) in a nearby village - they make great cookies, sometimes have 5-lb. boxes on sale. There's a motor vehicle licensing testing centre on a highway just on this side of London, should anyone be interested. If you're still around next Monday you could go with me for my next test - but you and my licensed required co-driver would have to sit in the centre, as no one allowed in the car but the tester (and me). When they test guys riding motorcycles, they give the guy being tested a radio collar (sorry - "headset") and the tester rides alongside with a transmitter to give instructions. Another driver-instruction session slated for after church on Sunday. Our London has a Thames River ... and ours has two branches, which meet downtown, with parks nearby and the former jail (now a municipal office bulding). I didn't say that we've become so civilized that we don't need a jail any more. Have a lovely weekend, everyone. ole joyful...See MoreRelated Professionals
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