A Place to Sit

The exciting news in my life is...I bought a couch! Last week while in NYC I went to the Bo Concept warehouse sale in New Jersey (so great to have a car) and fell in love with a cream-colored micro-suede couch. It was a floor sample, so was on sale for like 1/4 of the original price. Alas, someone had already staked their claim to it, so I left the NJ warehouse empty-handed. But as soon as I got back to N's Red Hook pad, I got on craigslist and found a similar one! We drove the Volvo uptown and picked it up from a nice girl on the Upper East Side who was moving to Queens. N disassembled it for me (Bo Concept is like the fancy older cousin to Ikea), we brought it down the five flights (so easy and lightweight!) and then I drove it back up to Maine on Tuesday morning. My brother helped me reassemble it, and now, finally, I have a couch! My living room is turning into a room, instead of a giant entryway strewn with crap that I walk through to get to my kitchen. Ahhh....