it is trying to be spring

It has actually been above freezing for three days in a row - and that is saying a lot this winter, as it has been bitterly cold and very snowy. The snow is trying to melt now, which should help with the furniture delivery on Friday.

I cannot remember if I ever posted about the new furniture or not. The last couple of months are all sort of a blur in my head what with the thyroid thing and all. Anyway, we have had the same living room furniture for more than fifteen, and possibly as many as twenty years. It has more or less survived cats, a large dog, and two rambunctious sons and their friends. Needless to say, it is literally falling apart now - to the point where the wooden frame has come out of the back and poked holes in the walls.

So Dan and I ordered new furniture for our wedding anniversary in late December. I must have sat on 20-30 couches and found one with great lower back support that was very comfortable. So we ordered a reclining sofa, reclining chair, and reclining love seat. They will all be in a dark chocolate brown. They are made by La-Z-Boy right here in Michigan, so we are supporting our local economy while buying much needed furniture.

The chair and the sofa will go in the living room and the love seat will go in the front room, where we have never actually had furniture other than a china hutch and book cases, as we could not afford to buy new furniture when we moved into the house. It will be lovely having the reclining love seat there. We can relax and listen to music, sit in front of the gas fireplace, and watch the snow falling outside through the picture window. I cannot wait until it comes on Friday.

On last Friday I went in and got blood drawn at the hospital for my Tuesday appointment with the next specialist for my thyroid.

This year I added the kids to my vision insurance just for the hell of it, since it did not cost much. It turned out that they both needed glasses, so this was a very good decision.

anniversary

Dan and I had our twentythird wedding anniversary yesterday.

Neither one of us was feeling particularly well - he had a nasty cold, and I was exhausted (as I so often am due to the problem with my thyroid), so we scrapped our plans to spend the day in Frankenmuth.

Instead we went to breakfast at IHOP (International House of Pancakes), then went shopping for furniture (our living room furniture is well over twenty years old, and is so worn out that the frames are poking holes in the walls), then went to an early dinner/late lunch at a really nice restaurant in Ann Arbor called Mediterraneo, which has fusion food from all of the countries that border that particular sea.

We got a reclining chair, reclining sofa, and reclining love seat, all from La-Z-Boy, which is made in an adjoining county. So we helped our community with our purchase. The furniture is of high quality and has great lower back support. All three pieces are a deep chocolate brown. We have been saving our money, knowing we needed furniture, so we bought them in cash. They were very cheap, as they were on deep sale due to the terrible economy. They should be delivered in late January.

Today I picked up Dan's nasty cold, and my head is all stuffed up. I called in sick to work and have been in bed reading most of the day. Hot tea has helped, as has Mexican hot chocolate. The hot beverages seem to be helping to break up the goo in my sinuses.