Ooh. I am one with comfy-ness. We bought a new chair the other day... check out Love Sac and look at the Ton o' love model. This chair is amazing! It has room for two people in it, and it is shaped like a HUGE bean bag chair, but much more comfortable. I think I could fall asleep in it. The down-side is that it currently takes up almost the entire west wall of our living room. I know it says 5' diameter, but it smashes out even larger than that... maybe around 5.5'... so with the couch already taking up a bit of the south wall and the walkway through to the balcony, we're practically out of room on that side.

I'm seriously considering tossing out our couch and getting one of the 6' bags for the south wall of the room, but I'm gonna have to see how much we like this after the initial novelty wears off. If I am as happy with it in a month as I am now, I may just do it.
posted by Zim at 12/11/2002 07:39:00 PM

Oddly enough, I ended up making it the Christmas at the Prado celebrations on Friday night, and missing out on the Wild Animal Park. I should have thought it out better in advance, but I didn't think about the massive traffic jam that the Chargers / Raiders game would generate in the North County on I15. So... Sunday was a wash. We ended up hitting the UTC mall in La Jolla instead, where I picked up a present for my parents. I guess it wasn't a complete loss.

Anyway, back to the Prado thing for a second. Not only was it ironic that I actually ended up making it this year, it was also completely accidental. We actually were taking James and Diana (and Winston - also known as Lilliana) to Balboa park, as they were in town to visit Lis and see San Diego. We decided that Balboa Park was the place to go, and we ended up getting there at 4:30 - before the traffic and parking problems occurred.

I was actually let down by the whole experience. I think missing it every year for the last five years has made it into something bigger in my mind than it actually was. I think I will now regret actually going much more than I ever regretted not going. Now I won't even have this to complain about...

I never claimed to be normal.
posted by Zim at 12/09/2002 06:52:00 PM