New couches, new place to live!

Last week, my mom so nicely bought us some fancy schmancy bi-cast leather couches for my birthday/moving/trav's grad/etc!! We both LOVED the look of them and were so happy. This is what they looked like:

Nice, eh? We were so proud. I spent an hour conditioning the leather and admiring our amazing find. And then about 30 minutes passed and we realised that the pets nicely jumping up was pretty much GOUGING the leather. Crap. We tried to keep them off, but they were both so sad from being yelled at and not knowing what they were doing wrong. Plus, whats the point of having such a cute puppy if you are not able to cuddle on the couch?? So in two days they looked like crap. I mean, nothing should scratch that easily. We were nervous just sitting on them because any seam of button on your pants can scratch them. I didn't want to tell mom that we wanted to return them, because it was such a nice gift, but it had to be done. So yesterday we went to the brick and had a HECK OF A TIME trying to return them. I mean we bought a 5 year warranty on them, and etc etc.... They weren't budging, because we got them on sale. Retarded. But finally with mom almost crying, me arguing with the guy at mach(sp) speed, and Travis standing firm, the guy finally budged. YAY!! So Travis and I spent a little extra, a lot of time, and picked out these microfiber babies:

Well, not exactly these, we were SO TEMPTED to get the aqua colour. I LOVE LOVE the colour, and Travis does too. But we both know that it is a trendy colour and that in a few years we would regret that choice. So we got the couch and loveseat and a nice taupe colour! And we will accent with this aqua. So we promised the nice lady at the Brick that we would spread the word that they did us well. We pick them up tomorrow! And bring these peices of ..... back.

On Monday Travis and I went to Calgary to look for a place to live. A few tears later, we found a place!!! The first place we went to see was a small basement suite for $1000..... I got depressed really fast because it was A HOLE.... A the whole drive to Calgary I had been calling place after place after place and they were either already rented, no pets allowed, or not able to show us that day, or just plain too expensive. Travis called up his cousin, who has a house in Calgary that he is renovating, and we asked him if we could rent his place. Good idea, he thought, since they are rarely there, and not making any money on it now, but he would check with his wife. She loved the idea! So we drove over there and had a look. It's still under construstion but very close to being finished. The contractor said he would have it all cleaned up in two weeks when we want to move in. Its very lovely and fancy. And affordable. A real answer to prayer. So we move in two weeks! Lots of packing to come.