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So lastnight, as I wrote, I went on an air conditioner hunt, neither of the ‘local’ (including Hagerstown, Maryland) walmarts had any air conditioners (except for some 30,000 BTU monstrosity), which was just absolutely mind-boggling considering how insanely hot it is outside. I guess since it’s August and they need to start selling fucking x-mas decorations the air conditioners that still have a purpose are completely unncessary to still sell? Bastids! I went to Lowe’s today and they only have really expensive ones, I didn’t have time to go to Home Depot in Maryland to check on what they would have, so my options are either there or ordering online from walmart (grrrrr!!!) which adds $20 in shipping of course, or to just do without. The doing without idea is what I’m going to most strongly consider, provided that the summer warmth soon dies down. The room downstairs is mostly underground and doesn’t have any heat sources like windows, so it might work; it’ll also be more friendly on the wallet, which is definitely important after buying that bed.

The delivery people were supposed to be here sometime between noon and 4pm. Did they arrive during that period of time? No, of course not. Want to take a guess at how long they kept me waiting around the house to show up? EIGHT FUCKING HOURS! That’s right kids, the delivery men were “running late” (which is quite the understatement), they didn’t get here until 8pm! Then they start yelling at each other! Yes, right in front of me, one of them was dead set against actually setting up the bed, I guess his idea of delivery and setup means just dropping the stuff off? I could just see them starting to open the whoopass on each other any second… I was about ready, before they finally showed up, to call and tell them to just forget about the delivery and that I didn’t want the damn thing anymore… I don’t like having my day fucked from the very beginning and then proceeding until nightfall.

With the bed finally in place, and yes it is lovely, we did a quick run out to Lowe’s to check on A/Cs, only to find, as I wrote just earlier, that they didn’t have any that were “affordable” …blah. That’s when I first decided to really just forget about getting an A/C for that room this summer. Next, with a whopping 30 minutes remaining until close, we jaunted over to the fabric store. I bought a half yard each of two shades of a blue hue, since I couldn’t decide which I wanted — so I can either make two with each colour, or two of each colour. I also bought 2 yards of this chennille upholstery fabric to make an upholstered headboard for the bed down there… similar to the one I made for this room; only not pleather, lol. This time though I’m going to attach the headboard to the bed, instead of to the wall… attaching it to the wall was a bit of a fiasco up here.

So, I get back home and decide that I’ll trial fit the blue wamsutta sheets that I had purchased last weekend… the fitted sheet is too small to actually cover the mattress properly. So I’m like, okay, I’ll take them back, no biggie. I look at the receipt in the bag, it isn’t the one for the sheets!! I then proceed to go through every single receipt in my desk drawer, and believe me, that’s A LOT of receipts; I can’t find the one I need! So, hmmm, they say on the other receipt that they’ll do “exchange only” without a receipt, so I’m hoping they mean “store credit” otherwise I’m going to be very cunty. I should probably call them first before wasting an hour to drive down there and back. If I do go back and “exchange” means “store credit” I’m taking my trusty tape measure and I’m opening up the sheets and measuring the corner seam before I buy them. I don’t need any more frustration with sheets not fitting properly. I’ll just try to find some that say they’ll work with a mattress much thicker than mine, then they’ll definitely fit.

The black sheets I bought at Boscov’s fit “alright” though not as well as one would hope, but they’ll do. The corners are deep enough that they all wrap under the mattress like they’re supposed to, they just don’t properly cover the sides completely. Since I need a set of sheets, they’re nice, and were less expensive than the blue ones, and I don’t feel like making the 2 hour roundtrip back to Boscov’s, I’m going to just deal with them. The deep pockets are deep, but not quite deep enough to fit perfectly.

The kingsize bedskirt that I had bought because it was on clearance for $7 versus paying $30 for a queen-sized one works perfectly well; the only reason it was on clearance was because Kmart/Martha changed the packaging… I couldn’t see paying all that more for less fabric, heh.

I spent a good chunk of the day sewing up the curtain panels for the dividing ‘wall’ of fabric. I had to make it more difficult for myself for the sense of “style” though of course, because sewing two widths of the fabric together just wouldn’t look as cool as sewing together four half-widths of fabric would, hahaha. So that means I had three flat-fell seams per panel, not to mention the hems for all four sides. I’ve gone through four bobbins of thread thus far, lol. I have only one hem to go before both curtain panels are finished. I need to cut the wooden “support strips” that I’m going to use to hang them though, I neglected to actually measure the distance and just told the guy at Lowe’s to cut each strip of wood to six feet, when the actual width of the room is more like 11 feet… d’oh. I didn’t account for the width decrease caused by the studs and panelling added to the room to make it livable, versus a garage.

Other than these numerous frustrations… and they’ve certainly been annoying beyond words, the room is looking nice. HAH!

Here’s a photo of the new bed, it’s sooo comfortable!

Addendum: It looks as though I’m going to be making that trip up to Camphill to go to Boscov’s afterall. I just took those black sheets out of the dryer and some of the side seams have come undone… wtf? I guess I won’t be sleeping down there on the new bed tonight, bugger. At least I have my receipt for those!