{"id":618,"date":"2004-09-05T14:45:55","date_gmt":"2004-09-05T21:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2004-09-05T14:45:55","modified_gmt":"2004-09-05T21:45:55","slug":"in-a-galaxy-far-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"In a Galaxy Far Far Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After visiting pretty much every furniture store in the tri-state area over the past few weeks, I have to say that I really hate furniture sales people. They are so pushy and annoying. The ones I hate the most are the ones that will silently follow you around the store. I feel like I&#8217;m prey being stalked by a lion. I hate that feeling. It makes me go quickly through the store and then leave.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, we did find a bedroom set we liked at Bay Furniture today. I&#8217;m hesitant to purchase it now, even though it would be a special order not due to arrive for eight weeks, because what if something goes wrong and we don&#8217;t end up with the house? It&#8217;s highly unlikely, but you never know. I wouldn&#8217;t want to be stuck with $2000 worth of furniture and nowhere to put it. Furthermore, I just found an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/catalog\/product.gsp?product_id=2413368&#038;cat=124167&#038;type=0&#038;dept=4044&#038;path=0%3A4044%3A103150%3A91789%3A124164%3A124167\" target=\"_top\">identical set on Walmart&#8217;s site<\/a> for even less money. All seven pieces are only $1536 as opposed to a little over $2000. So as long as it remains available in the next two months, we should be ok. If not, I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll find something just as nice elsewhere. Mission-style furniture seems to be very popular and we like it a lot.<\/p>\n<p>We finally told the kids about the townhome this weekend and showed them pictures of the place. The girl was so cute, saying stuff like &#8220;that&#8217;s a really nice dining room&#8221;. LOL! She was especially excited about having her own room and a &#8216;kids only&#8217; bathroom. The boy didn&#8217;t care as much until I mentioned that he&#8217;d be able to keep all of Joe&#8217;s old Star Wars toys in his closet. That got his attention! <\/p>\n<p>I asked the kids which one of them wanted the Care Bears I collect in their room, and I was surprised when they both said they did. I was pretty sure the girl would think they were too baby-ish. But that&#8217;s cool. I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m so obsessed with collecting them all, but I am. I currently own 9 of them, the two most recent additions being Cozy Heart Penguin and Loyal Heart Dog. I grew up with a bunch of Care Bear toys, so maybe it&#8217;s some deep-seated need to re-live my childhood. <\/p>\n<p>Oh and speaking of Star Wars, we just found out today while at Walmart that they are re-releasing a bunch of the old toys, like the Millennium Falcon. It looks just like the original one too, which is cool. Joe has the original, but it&#8217;s old and dirty. They also have the cool figurine holding cases, and since Joe already has Darth Vader, we were thinking of getting his son the C3-PO one for Christmas so he&#8217;d have both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After visiting pretty much every furniture store in the tri-state area over the past few weeks, I have to say that I really hate furniture sales people. They are so pushy and annoying. The ones I hate the most are the ones that will silently follow you around the store. I feel like I&#8217;m prey being stalked by a lion. I hate that feeling. It makes me go quickly through the store and then leave. That being said, we did find a bedroom set we liked at Bay Furniture today. I&#8217;m hesitant to purchase it now, even though it would be a special order not due to arrive for eight weeks, because what if something goes wrong and we don&#8217;t end up with the house? It&#8217;s highly unlikely, but you never know. I wouldn&#8217;t want to be stuck with $2000 worth of furniture and nowhere to put it. 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