This morning I have already stepped in cat puke (barefoot no less) three times and spent an hour and a half at the grocery store.
Suffice to say, I may be somewhat grumpy for the rest of the day, because that’s just no way to start a Sunday.
Just Orb
A Tangential Autobiography
I think I have you beat! I have to make an emergency run to Ikea which means I have to get at least one more cup of coffee in my gullet before I run out of here like a chicken with my head cut off!
I am not even going to allow myself to imagine IKEA on a Sunday. The horror. The horror! You have my sympathy.
I made it through Ikea in 90 minutes, including stopping for lunch-mmm poached salmon. I was a woman on a mission!
I have never made it in and out of there that quickly. I always manage to be stuck in IKEA until I am like a lost person wandering in the desert thinking I will never see civilization again. Parched, starving, weak, barely able to maintain an upright and human posture. And that’s when I go in knowing exactly what I am there for. Heaven help me if I am only there to window shop.
But of course, there’s always an extended layover at the oasis of food and drink in the middle of the thing. Sometimes, I even whine about having to get up and move on. LOL!
And the poached salmon is tasty, isn’t it?
So what’d you get?
I went up for a bed frame…
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70122215
and picked up a few little necessities like a couple of more rubbish bins so I can have a mini recycling station upstairs. I’ve discovered that sloth is becoming my new favorite of the deadly sins and I don’t want to walk downstairs just to toss a piece of paper away in the right bin.
I also went to look for a new glass bowl. The niece unit was jumping on the furniture and broke the one I bought at Ikea last time. They didn’t have it anymore. I am more than a little annoyed at that because I REALLY liked it.
Let me know what you think of that bed frame. We need a new one, and I’d looked at that very one online.
I’m certain I have so completely embraced sloth, I would never in a hundred years walk all the way downstairs to throw away a piece of paper. Do you have single stream recycling, or do you still have to separate stuff?
We have single stream… The city of San Antonio’s recycling program is actually being used as model for other cities now. The city gave us a large trash can and the same size of recycle can as well as a in house recycle bin. The trash pick up is only once a week with recycling pick up once a week on a different day. The trash pick up comes by with the large truck with the arm to pick up trash and deposit it in the back of the truck. The recycling is picked up in the same manner- just a different day, different color truck. The collectors that would be going down the street loading in the different cans into the back of the truck are now working in the recycling plant, sorting the different recyclables.
The problem is that we spend so much time upstairs at the computers. I decided that I needed some extra bins up here just for the recycling. Even with a family of our size, we don’t fill up our trash collection can in a week but we frequently have to borrow Joe’s recycling bin to dispose of everything. Germany was HUGE about recycling, and in fact fined people for trashing recyclables or for recycling trash. We just got into the habit and its stuck. This is one of the few things that make me adore this city
I figured you guys had to have single stream, since Austin sends it’s single stream stuff to San Antonio for processing. But, you never know. Stupider things do happen.
I love the single stream stuff. So easy and no more lifting those stupid blue bins and carrying them to the curb. That lasted all of two months after we moved to the house, before I gave up on it. I either had to try to carry heavy objects or make a thousand trips out to the curb to fill the bins in situ. Sucked.
Now I toss the recycling out every couple of days, and every two weeks or when it gets full it goes to the curb. I no longer have to panic if I forget to get the regular trash out on trash day, because we never fill it on a weekly basis anymore, and with all the fresh foods we eat, it takes a long time to fill the recycling bin as well. Mostly ends up being a load of various beverage containers, the odd can or jar, and no longer needed cardboard boxes from online ordering. It’s lovely.
I do need to find two matching space-efficient kitchen trash cans that fit in the designated trash can spot though. Currently I have the one for regular refuse, and if I don’t stay on top of carrying the recycling out, it ends up stacked around that trash can. Very annoying, what with three cats who just love to rummage through things and play with plastic bottles. :D