Lifestyles of the boring middle-class
Jul. 7th, 2006 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseYeah, nothing much new is going on in my life right now, hence the lack of updates. I do feel much better this week than I have the last couple of weeks, though - better rested, and more grounded, mostly. Some of that was probably that I was fighting off some sort of bug, but it strikes me that a lot of it is that Brian's been sleeping better as well, due to a (mostly) voluntary knocking-off-the-caffiene-after-noon. So I'm guessing that I'm probably getting better sleep, too, since I don't have to deal with him tossing and turning and hogging all the covers. Not that I ever do that, myself...*looks for missing halo*
Our home theater is finally finished, and I have to say that I find it completely awesome. The picture on the 62" DLP lives up to the glowing reviews; and while I'm apparently one of the percentage of people who can see the rainbow effect, I only see it out of the corner of my eye when my eyes are moving across the screen so it doesn't really bug me. (Actually, it's kind of fun during the credits to flick my eyes across the screen and see the pretty rainbows...=) The sound system is pretty equally awesome - and our subwoofer is HUGE. Not as loud as you might think (or at least, we don't turn it up that loud), but very high-fidelity sound, and almost no distortion when we do turn it up.
Add in the incredibly comfy sofa, fun beanbag chair (I'm probably going to pick up another one soon) and better snacks, and I have to say that I don't see the public movie theater in my future again anytime soon. Thank God.
In other home-appliance news, Brian and I finally got a new bedside lamp - the old one's had a broken lampshade for a while, and it seemed pretty dumb to pay $20-$30 for a new lampshade when we could get a new lamp for that much. Unfortunately, the selection here in Juneau is pretty limited, and for some reason the current home-decor style seems to be split between "Late African Safari Atrocity" (lots of dark bronze sculpted into things like plants and monkeys and whatnot, each piece more hideous than the last - I was almost surprised there wasn't an elephant's foot in there somewhere) and "70's Broke College Student of Taste -3" (lots of cheap-looking lamps and shades in absolutely awful color combinations - think bright orange and pink with red fake-fur trim). Unsurprisingly, after half an hour of picking through the display we were all set to just make do with the broken one, but fortunately I spotted a nice one that had that simple-yet-elegant-highrise-apartment-chic look going for it, which happened to match our bedspread quite well - we'd just missed this particular lamp the first couple of times because it was sitting between two that were so bad that slitting our wrists seemed like a pleasant alternative to looking at them. Ugh.
In other news, my birthday's next week. (How the heck did I get to be 23? When I was 18 it seemed miles away...) Since I don't want to end up as one of those people who resents their birthdays, I'm probably going to be having a get-together at my house, hopefully with ice-cream-cake (since I love ice cream but don't particularly like store-bought cake). Gifts are not necessary, but if anyone feels like buying me something, I'm certainly not going to say no, and I'll do my best to return the favor once your birthday comes around. Now that I'm not, y'know, a broke college student all the time...=D
Our home theater is finally finished, and I have to say that I find it completely awesome. The picture on the 62" DLP lives up to the glowing reviews; and while I'm apparently one of the percentage of people who can see the rainbow effect, I only see it out of the corner of my eye when my eyes are moving across the screen so it doesn't really bug me. (Actually, it's kind of fun during the credits to flick my eyes across the screen and see the pretty rainbows...=) The sound system is pretty equally awesome - and our subwoofer is HUGE. Not as loud as you might think (or at least, we don't turn it up that loud), but very high-fidelity sound, and almost no distortion when we do turn it up.
Add in the incredibly comfy sofa, fun beanbag chair (I'm probably going to pick up another one soon) and better snacks, and I have to say that I don't see the public movie theater in my future again anytime soon. Thank God.
In other home-appliance news, Brian and I finally got a new bedside lamp - the old one's had a broken lampshade for a while, and it seemed pretty dumb to pay $20-$30 for a new lampshade when we could get a new lamp for that much. Unfortunately, the selection here in Juneau is pretty limited, and for some reason the current home-decor style seems to be split between "Late African Safari Atrocity" (lots of dark bronze sculpted into things like plants and monkeys and whatnot, each piece more hideous than the last - I was almost surprised there wasn't an elephant's foot in there somewhere) and "70's Broke College Student of Taste -3" (lots of cheap-looking lamps and shades in absolutely awful color combinations - think bright orange and pink with red fake-fur trim). Unsurprisingly, after half an hour of picking through the display we were all set to just make do with the broken one, but fortunately I spotted a nice one that had that simple-yet-elegant-highrise-apartment-chic look going for it, which happened to match our bedspread quite well - we'd just missed this particular lamp the first couple of times because it was sitting between two that were so bad that slitting our wrists seemed like a pleasant alternative to looking at them. Ugh.
In other news, my birthday's next week. (How the heck did I get to be 23? When I was 18 it seemed miles away...) Since I don't want to end up as one of those people who resents their birthdays, I'm probably going to be having a get-together at my house, hopefully with ice-cream-cake (since I love ice cream but don't particularly like store-bought cake). Gifts are not necessary, but if anyone feels like buying me something, I'm certainly not going to say no, and I'll do my best to return the favor once your birthday comes around. Now that I'm not, y'know, a broke college student all the time...=D
