The Futon store

With the steady stream of couch surfers we've had, we decided to explore sleeping alternatives for our floor space. Just down the street from us is a futon store. After I laid on every futon mattress in the store, we decided that it was kind of a waste of time, because there was only one bed product that was small enough to fit in our living room/kitchen/guest bedroom/office/tv room/game room. Enter - THE CUBE. THE CUBE sits very quietly in the corner of our multipurpose room camoflauged as a footrest and just when a guest least suspects it: Voila - a single bed appears.

If this is not equally as exciting to you, consider one of two things:
1) You never know the day that you may end up sleeping on our floor. Hostel Josefy does recommend however making reservations at least 2 months in advance to ensure availability.
2) This was our first furniture purchase - in fact one of the most majorest purchases we've ever made as a couple, besides my flight home and our television.

But alas, we are not in need of the futon chair this weekend - we can't even keep our own bed occupied: Bree is ready for her outing to the US, where she will lolligag around while I go to work all day everyday. Actually that's not true - she's sitting for a CPA exam. And, Monday is a bank holiday for us, not because of the American soliders that have died of course, but to officially welcome Spring to our midst. But it is true that in a 30 day period, Bree and I will have only seen each other for 11 of them. We trust that our marriage is strong enough to withstand this second week of separation.

It's much less of a formal reason to celebrate than some holidays in Hong Kong, where I was informed today that there is a national holiday where they feed the wild animals and the fishies as a way to keep these mongers away from the body of a mystical national hero who lies in the bottom of a riverbed somewhere because he was courageous enough to commit suicide to avoid giving away government secrets. If you have a more accurate and complete version of this fable, feel free to post it. And thanks to my Hong Kong source, who I will have to apologize to if I tangled up the details.