Thursday, March 09, 2006
New TownHouse Renovation - Day 12 (3.08.06)
Wednesday:
Goal: Rest, shop for ceiling lights. Rest some more.
We decided to make today a rest day. We needed to get away from the place for a day to gather our thoughts and to get some sleep. We both got home from work at around 5, and went to the Lamps Plus in Glendale to look at some lights that we had seen on their website. They were having a big sale, so we wanted to take advantage.
When we got there, we ended up having a sales guy who was just off the boat from Nigeria so we had to pretty much walk him through the sale. He was full of enthusiasm but not too knowledgeable on Lamps or for that matter, Plus. The lamps that we liked in the paper looked like ass in real life, so we decided to look around some more and ended up finding some discontinued lights that were half the price of the ones we had originally picked out. Bonus. We also got a longer hanging light for the upstairs stairwell, since that is a larger space and needed something a bit more "hangy".
After that, it was time for our romantic dinner. We headed down the street to Foxy's (a standard Glendale haunt) and to our surprise they had a bunch of new wait people working there. We got a new waitress who gave me a great idea. This has nothing to do with townhouse renovation (unless the idea makes me millions and allows me to buy new townhouses, pay people to fix them up, and then burn them to the ground just because I can). But my idea is for a new restaurant....a more upscale version of Hooters for those of us who like some mystery and nuance in our sexual dining. Our waitress last night had one of those sexy voices that made everything she said sound AWESOME. Even Rena was ready to order triple desserts from this girl. I have had one other experience a few years ago down in the OC, when we were out to breakfast with Joel and Heidi. This girl had a voice that drove us all crazy (by us all I mean excluding Heidi and Rena). I want to open a restaurant like that. Where the waitpeople all have sexy come hither voices that make people want to order more beer and dessert. They would wear normal clothes, and patrons would buy all kinds of wine and 50 dollar steaks...making me millions....then I would burn the place to the ground, just because I could.
Anyway, so tonight (Thursday) we are sorting through the cabinet pieces so we can start assembly and hopefully install over the weekend. We got all the parts that had to be shipped out of the Ikea warehouse in Bakersfield this morning. So we should be good to go.
Goal: Rest, shop for ceiling lights. Rest some more.
We decided to make today a rest day. We needed to get away from the place for a day to gather our thoughts and to get some sleep. We both got home from work at around 5, and went to the Lamps Plus in Glendale to look at some lights that we had seen on their website. They were having a big sale, so we wanted to take advantage.
When we got there, we ended up having a sales guy who was just off the boat from Nigeria so we had to pretty much walk him through the sale. He was full of enthusiasm but not too knowledgeable on Lamps or for that matter, Plus. The lamps that we liked in the paper looked like ass in real life, so we decided to look around some more and ended up finding some discontinued lights that were half the price of the ones we had originally picked out. Bonus. We also got a longer hanging light for the upstairs stairwell, since that is a larger space and needed something a bit more "hangy".
After that, it was time for our romantic dinner. We headed down the street to Foxy's (a standard Glendale haunt) and to our surprise they had a bunch of new wait people working there. We got a new waitress who gave me a great idea. This has nothing to do with townhouse renovation (unless the idea makes me millions and allows me to buy new townhouses, pay people to fix them up, and then burn them to the ground just because I can). But my idea is for a new restaurant....a more upscale version of Hooters for those of us who like some mystery and nuance in our sexual dining. Our waitress last night had one of those sexy voices that made everything she said sound AWESOME. Even Rena was ready to order triple desserts from this girl. I have had one other experience a few years ago down in the OC, when we were out to breakfast with Joel and Heidi. This girl had a voice that drove us all crazy (by us all I mean excluding Heidi and Rena). I want to open a restaurant like that. Where the waitpeople all have sexy come hither voices that make people want to order more beer and dessert. They would wear normal clothes, and patrons would buy all kinds of wine and 50 dollar steaks...making me millions....then I would burn the place to the ground, just because I could.
Anyway, so tonight (Thursday) we are sorting through the cabinet pieces so we can start assembly and hopefully install over the weekend. We got all the parts that had to be shipped out of the Ikea warehouse in Bakersfield this morning. So we should be good to go.
# posted by Tony Starr @ 2:15 PM 
