Sweet and Savory

With it being Labor Day weekend, my Mom had today off. So Marshall and I met her at Sweet and Savory for lunch. It was our first time back since our fiasco with the waitress for hell when we were all there for Gloria's birthday. On the way over Marshall joked that with our luck we would probably get the same waitress again. My Mom was already seated when we walked in and as luck would have it we had the waitress from hell again! Yikes. We briefed Mom on the story and she tried to ensure us that the waitress had been very nice so far. Much to our disbelief, Mom was right. Our waitress from hell had done a 180 and was just as nice and sweet and attentive as she could be. I guess our table's complaining to the managers must have made them have a talk with her about having an attitude adjustment. So it was a pleasant lunch after all.

For some reason, after lunch Marshall and I got a wild hair to go couch shopping. I would say that it was an impulse buy, but that isn't entirely true. We've talked for some time about getting rid of the couch and getting something different, something bigger. The trouble is we have a small house and our living room isn't big enough for anything too terribly large. But we thought we would go to our new favorite furniture store and "look." Down College road to Custom Home Furnishings we went with nothing in mind except to look and see if we could find a small sectional. We had found one at Ikea that was small and would work but it wasn't exactly what we wanted and wasn't as nice a piece of furniture as we were hoping to get either. Our ideal was a small leather sectional. With dogs and a baby coming we figured leather would be the easiest to keep clean. It just so happened that the girl who sold us our coffee table was there so she gladly showed us around their large inventory and walked us through which sectionals came in smaller sizes and which in leather. We quickly narrowed it down to two we liked, but which were completely different styles. The prices were fairly comparable so we decided to do a comfort test. One quickly won out on the armrests alone. We love to lounge around on our couches and watch TV so the fact that one had rounded padded armrests that required no throw pillows to make it comfy was a big selling point for us. It also happened to be slightly cheaper than the other. Sold! Now that we had picked the couch came the daunting task of deciding on which color leather. After much deliberation we finally settled on a gray marbleized color that had just a hint of blue in it. We thought it would give it a little bit of a texture to it so we jumped. Now we just have to wait 8-10 weeks to see if we made the right decision. Since this year is our 3rd anniversary and leather is the traditional gift for 3rd anniversaries we decided that this would be our gift to each other.

While waiting to fill out all the paperwork and pay, Marshall took a seat on the nearest couch and discovered it was completely electronic! He thought it was the coolest thing. You press a button and the foot rest comes out. You press another button and it reclines. I thought he was about to change his mind entirely on the couch he wanted, but he decided the electronic couch just wasn't as comfortable as the one we picked.