New Couch
A couple posts ago I talked about shopping for a new couch with my parents. I had narrowed it down to two while they were here, but ended up leaning towards one. My fashion consultant Sue agreed with with my reasoning, and so it was ordered! Among the implications of my distaste for shopping is that once I’ve got something that seems ok, I just like to buy it and be done with it.

In any event, on Wednesday, I picked it up. I enlisted my neighbor Miki to help me move it inside. It was more difficult than we had expected, but, still not a super big deal (it was nice to chat with Miki, too… you’d think we’d see each other more often since she lives right around the corner). I did have an issue that this couch is substantially larger than the previous one was, so I had to do some rearranging of other things. But it ended up to be a good reason to move the end table that is the nicest piece of furntiture I inherited from my grandmother (and quite possibly the nicest piece that I own) into my main room instead of in the sunny front porch where it’d been hiding under a tablecloth for years (the sun was very noticeably making it fade, which scared me).

And, last night, it survived an after-dance party in style. Fellow contradancer Anna took to it strongly and immediately, and gave it rave reviews as she lay on it chatting with others and listening to the music we were playing.. and what music it was! Besides the typical old-time and “New England” dance music, Igor (from Russia) led us in a rousing rendition of “Oh, Suzanna!”, Priscilla (from Brazil, presently an IU School of Music student studying voice/early music) sang a few Samba’s for us (backed up by Igor on guitar and me on piano), and Anna (who is also from Russia) led a big group sing-along of “Let it Be”. Quite a party experience!

Whatever the case, the couch was enjoyed by many at its first party. So, good.

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