I bought a purple peanut-shaped table today!
I was at Ikea in Richmond (oddly enough, the Ikea in Vancouver is in a place called Richmond too…) for subsidised Swedish meatballs a couple of months ago, and saw the niftiest purple table in the showroom. I had to have this table! The colour was great, and the shape was fun, and also quite functional. I couldn’t afford it then, but I can now. This is the first piece of actual furniture I’ve purchased since my arrival in Australia. Wowee!
This afternoon, I went to Ikea Moorabbin with Lola (11 years old), Phoebe (8 years old) and Mica (mumble mumble years old). After a lunch of subsidised Swedish meatballs, we picked up “Vika Manne” (the table) and “Vika Curry” (the leg). Lola was pushing me to get the white legs, but I think the silver ones ended up being a better choice.
Furthermore, I decided that now would be a good time, gentle reader, to introduce you to my new work and play environment at home. I had taken a picture to document the fact that the table was at one point in time clean. That won’t last.
To the left of the desk, on the wall, is a poster from the Astor Theatre, a fine place that reminds me of the Ridge Theatre in Vancouver. Next is a collection of the pictures I’ve taken since I arrived here. Some have been featured on this site, some haven’t. There’s just about 40 up there, all in all. The computer printout, barely visible to the right of them is the receipt for my unclaimed return e-ticket to Vancouver, which expired on November 12. You can see the bottom of a bit of rosemary on the wall, and the very bottom left corner of a ziploc bag full of my hair that I cut off a few months ago.
On the desk, there are a couple of cheap speakers, my beloved Jet Girl, an iBook. There’s a cheap-ass Philips mobile phone there too, and a Sony voice recorder. A pad of paper, a couple of pens and pictures of friends from Vancouver. There’s more geeky stuff on the blue-and-purple thing (leftover from my flatmate’s old flatmate).
And I have to get a better chair.