Our Busy Weekend
Posted on April 14, 2008 by Ching under Family, Life.
In the process of fixing up the old office, we had to get rid of a bunch of things. One of these items being my old desk.
At first our initial plan was to just donate this to Goodwill and get a tax receipt for next year. Then, I had heard from Jan that Bree and Rob were looking for a desk so we were going to just give this to them. Several days passed and we hadn’t heard anything back from them about wanting the desk. Jenni found out that I was getting rid of it and she didn’t have one in her room so she said she wanted it. So then we were going to give it to her.
We were supposed to deliver it last weekend, but then I got sick so we postponed delivery to last Saturday, April 12. We figured we were coming over to bring dad his birthday present anyway.
So we met Jan for brunch at the Good Egg to start off our day. The Good Egg is starting to grow on me. Their stuff is still a tad over priced but they make a mocha cappuccino with lots and lots of whipped cream, just the way I like it, so they place is growing on me.
Jan mentioned that the new Barnes & Noble at Bradley Fair is now open so Brian and I decided to swing by on the way home to get the desk. The place is very nice, actually. The parking isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I will save my assessment of the location for my next blog, though.
So we got home and tackled the task of moving the desk. The hutch doesn’t detach. Believe me. We tried. It was a real challenge maneuvering it out the door. Brian actually assembled the desk in the room so we didn’t have a hard time bringing it in. Getting it out was a real hassle. We had to remove the cardboard backing of the filing cabinet section just so we would have something to hang on to while lifting it. This thing was heavy, as most good quality desks are… Anyway, as we struggled to get it out of the house and on the truck and Brian and thought of how difficult it would be to get into mom and dad’s house and down the stairs to basement and into Jenni’s room. Ugh. Just the thought of it made me cringe.
As much as I didn’t want to part with a perfectly good desk and as much as I wanted to find a good home for it, Brian and I decided to just go with our original plan of donating it to Goodwill. At least, there are two guys there who will help us get it off the truck.
We still went to mom and dad’s to deliver dad’s birthday gift. We ended up staying later than we wanted because we (well, Brian didn’t really care but I did) wanted to meet Jenni’s new guy, Adam. She strategically managed an incidental meeting by accidentally thinking that Signum was performing in Derby that night rather than April 19. Lolz.
Brian said he would take me to see The Other Boleyn Girl but it was no longer playing at the Warren. We ended up coming home and watching Sweeney Todd instead. That is a weird movie. Very bloody and very weird.
Yesterday we met the Brubakers for brunch at Legends at the Hilton. I will write more about that next time. I will post pictures too so don’t forget to come back.
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Ching on April 18, 2008
Actually, the desk has to go so we can fix the room. We can probably paint with the desk still in there but it’s kind of hard to remove the hideous carpet.
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Joe Rogan on April 16, 2008
Ok, let me see if I understand. You are trying to fix up the office, but you are not worried about the 1981 era little boys bedroom wallpaper or the equally hideous blue carpet, but the desk has to go? Then because either you, or your husband are too lazy to carry a computer desk down a flight of stairs you are just going to give it to goodwill…I would place a bet that it will either sit for 2-3 more weeks in your house waiting for someone to pick it up, or until you can convince Goodwill it is such a valuable piece that they should come get it. Have fun with that 5 dollar tax deduction you get.