The sofa is coming, the sofa is coming!
Finally I received a call from the furniture store (on a Sunday morning, strange) telling me that my sofa was ready and waiting in the storage. They’re delivering it on Tuesday night.
Hurraah!
The original schedule was for week 25 (it’s week 27 now) but I wasn’t awfully worried or annoyed with this furniture store. The other one is a completely different story: I should’ve gotten the rest of my stuff on May 15, then May 23 after the mess with my bed was sorted out. But I’m still waiting for the bed and the TV stand. I call them time and time again and have to leave a message for the sales person but she never calls back.
Can’t remember if I’ve told you about the bed mess. I was planning on getting a framed mattress and a whole bed frame in which case I wouldn’t need anything to put the mattress on (like you would with a regular, soft mattress or it falls through the bed frame 
). At first the dimwit sales person ordered me a normal mattress with a headboard — one that should be attached to a framed mattress! I received the mattress on time (before the move) and, because I needed to sleep somewhere, I decided to keep it and opened the package. I’ve been waiting for the bed ever since.
But boy am I glad I’m getting the sofa! Now I would really like the TV stand to get the TV, set-top box, and video/DVD player off the floor. (And the bed of course, but I’m not holding my breath.)
Here’s my bookcase:
The photo is terrible because it’s really grey outside and I haven’t bought any ceiling lamps yet. Anyway, my DVDs and CDs are on the left, miscellaneous literature, dictionaries and other kinds of encyclopaedias in the middle, and Stephen King books and X-Files collection on the right. I’ve placed some souvenirs in the middle and my favourite alien toys on the right. Stephen King takes almost three full shelves — I love it!
Two of the bottom shelves are empty and once I get my bedroom/office sorted, I’ll move my dictionaries and encyclopaedias close to my computer. You may wonder the logic in that but I like keeping them close to where I work no matter how much of that same info I can find online. I’m more apt to pick up a dictionary in book-form than surf to a dictionary site.
Nice bookcase! Congratulations on having chosen doors. Dusting the (currently 6) bookcases is not one of my favorite chores.
There is something about dictionaries that just makes them work better in book form. The eye-level shelf in my office (when sitting, and within an arm’s length) has my fi/en, en/fi and fi/sv/fi dictionaries as well as an english dictionary and thesaurus, and the finnish equivalent (Suomen kielen perussanakirja, in 3 parts).
Under that are various programming, networking and operating system references, but those don’t get anywhere near as much use. Maybe that’s because all this computer stuff moves along too fast, so Google is more up-to-date in addition to the sheer volume of information. A dictionary doesn’t become obsolete very fast…
Yup, after having an open Lundia bookshelf for years I wanted to get doors.
I, too, have the set of Suomen kielen perussanakirja. And I rescued quite a lot of old dictionaries and grammar books when my grandparents moved and had to give up a big portion of Grandpa’s library. I also have all kinds of English dictionaries (slang — that’s the huge yellow book smack in the middle, American English etc.) because I’m quite incapable of going to a book sale without getting something on English language.
My only book on computers is actually one on artificial intelligence (and language technology which I study). It is an old library book. I’ve never read it.
That’s a great looking bookcase. I knew the Stephen King books would be in there (close to the alien)