Being schooled in the subject of rock. But not the Jack Black kind...

Welcome back to your regularly scheduled blogger.

I thought pairing down our technology and getting rid of our laptops and going to one computer would be a good idea. But now that I see what it's done for our hacking ability on each other's accounts I am starting to question Paul's motives for the new computer.

I took the plunge today and bought another piece of furniture. The piece of furniture that I have been sweating and loosing sleep over since June. It's been purchased.

Remember my post about the furniture for the baby's room? Remember the rocking chair saga? Well it got worse.

This was the chair. It had disappeared on me shortly after finding it on Urban Outfitters website, but it quickly came back and had more reviews than just the one I had seen originally.

We we're off to Dallas for all of our furniture only to find the UO store we hit up did not have the chair in. They didn't even have a display model. But it was an overall great shopping trip, our car was packed and I don't know how we would have squeezed it in to the back of our Highlander anyways. I just figured we'd order it online when we got home.

I got home, opened up the laptop and there was the chair. In all of it's glory and with an additional $100.00 price tag that had not been there before. I shut the laptop and debated whether it was still worth it. Some of the newer reviews had not been so praiseworthy and I was back to questioning the choice.

Every time I got serious about buying it, I'd back out. Something about it didn't feel right. I wasn't sold. And the "stone" colored cushions were now being deemed "taupe" which was exactly what I didn't want.

So we sat around on our duffs week after week thinking about and doing better and other things. Except the "you don't have a chair for the room yet!" bug was screaming in the back of my brain.

The bug got bigger last Sunday when I realized we we're looking at 9 weeks before the kiddo was due to arrive and I was no closer to finding a chair I wanted than I had been when we we're only 9 weeks pregnant.

We started our search again and this time, everything was fair game. Upholstered, non upholstered, big, small, cheap, ugly. The molded plastic arm chair was a front runner along with the UO chair still but no serious decisions could be made. I/we just couldn't commit to anything.

Until last Monday when I confirmed my ever so handy designer discount with Herman Miller. I could get the Eames molded plastic arm chair for $100 cheaper than I could buy it anywhere else and I'd only be spending $45.00 more (after tax and shipping) for it than I would the chair from UO.

The UO chair couldn't compete. So we picked the finish we wanted from our Herman Miller chip cards and I signed the quote, and our chair got ordered.

We purchased the chair in white because the first gray, Sparrow, was too taupe-y and the second, Greystone, was too blue. The lime green couldn't sit in any other room of our house in the future and the other colors clashed with the blue on the wall. White was a good, reusable color.

So in 5-6 weeks we'll be rocking away. Paul and I don't plan to do a lot of rocking so the chair didn't have to be plush as long as it was comfortable. And when rocking for more than just a little bit is necessary we still have the La-Z-Boy hiding in our bedroom corner away from public view.