in my country we have a problem/and that problem is transport | October 30, 2005 @ 2:29 PM
this morning i decided i could no longer stand my duvet. it's lovely and i like how it looks and it's weight and how it makes me feel like i'm sleeping under a big fluffly cloud...but the damn thing REFUSES to get white again when laundered. i suppose i should've known better - it IS from ikea and is just made of cheap cotton, but i really liked it when i bought it and...well, i still do.
anyway, it was time for a change, so i took a trip to cb2 to buy a (slightly) pricier, nicer, hopefully longer-lasting duvet for my down blanket. i decided on the basic brown and white and was all ready to get out of there fast...but the pull of (semi-)reasonably-priced home decor items was too much for me. i ended up dropping like $160 - i got a few more plates for my 2-of-each-style dinnerware collection, a cheapy cocktail shaker since i didn't own one before (what am i supposed to do with all of that tito's handmade without one?), a candle that smells like a delicious chai latte, brown pillowcases, and a pillow i don't need but damn, it looks good on my couch.
the point of all of this was that i didn't really consider the logistics of carrying this stuff back to my apartment via the el since i no longer have access to a car. cb2 is pretty close to the addison brown line stop, so it wasn't too bad, but MY GOD how do all of you people DO this?? today i had my first taste of how lucky i used to be when i had a car whenever i wanted it. how do people get their groceries home? what if you have a sudden urge to go to cross-rhodes for greek fries? you have to plan everything - train schedules and bus schedules and metra schedules...where is the spontaneity?
sigh. so this is city life. ok, enough bitching. time to eat a b!g sur bar and watch ghostbusters II. oh egon! i swear, i'll always be true!...ok, except maybe for macgyver.
ps: on the train i was reading the hypochondriac's handbook, an ill-advised san francisco metreon purchase (eric! ian! why did you let me buy this book?!). did you know that the flu virus can live for YEARS in DRIED spit??
Eric on 10/30/2005 @ 5:36 PM:
It's a little know fact that the seats on the el are actually upholstered in a fabric made entirely of dried spit!