New sofa. Cats. Framing.

New Sofa
Our LaZ-Boy recliner sofa arrives tomorrow morning!! Hooray!! They gave us a time block of 9am-12pm for deliver. Depending on when they actually arrive, I may have to miss another accounting class. I hope that doesn't happen. I think at the most I might be a little late, even if they come at 12pm. Since it's a 2hr class, I can at least make it for the second hour, I think. I think the dangerous part will be me wanting to relax on the sofa when it gets here instead of going to class. LoL.

Cats
Chiyo has peed outside the litter box a number of times. A few times next to the fridge before we put a litter box there, and once in front of the fireplace (right in front of me). I took her to the vet to rule out any medical issues. Health is good, so it was behavioral. The vet gaves us some suggestions on what to do, which we've only partially put into effect. One was take the cat tree away (she stays on the top tier, which keeps her in a dominant position), and the other was to separate them at night.

When we got back from the vet, she peed on the carpet next to the cat tree. So that led me to confine her in the bathroom for the majority of the day. I found a larger cat cage to get her, so we're using what we budgeted for a new cat tree for that cage instead. Yubo says I can order it after this Thursday. (I know I said we budgeted for it, but I think it was used for mortgage cuz we got really tight at a few points.)

Framing
I think I'm never going to order framing from Michael's ever again. I mentioned that we were going to have our red cloth from the wedding framed to put up on the wall. We spent a frustrating couple of hours getting it to look just the way we wanted. Got it set and ordered. It was a really pretty wood frame with flower carvings, a gold trim that reminded me of Cambodia, and gold and silver mats to border the cloth. Then there were some problems ordering the mats, so there was some delay to reorder them. After just over a month, they finally figured out that the problem was because the mats we wanted did not come oversized. Yeah, it took them a month to figure that out after trying to reorder them.

So we had to go back in to see if we could choose different mats. I was so frustrated just going in because I was remembering just how long it took us to do it the first time, and I felt we had exhausted all our options the first time. When we walked in there and asked about our order, the lady helping us still thought the mats were being reordered. I had to tell her that the manager had called me and told me those mats couldn't be used. So she checked the notes he had written down and confirmed what he had told me. Seriously?? Their staff doesn't even know what's going on with their orders. After another gruelling hour or so, we chose two different mats that worked. But then it became an issue of if we really wanted to give our money to them when they were being so unprofessional.

I took the cloth back so I could iron it, but we ended up deciding that we could use the money for better things.... like mortgage. The only things I regret are not having that gorgeous frame and not having our red cloth up on the wall.

Our funds have actually been quite tight, but nothing too much to complain about. God has kept us in a good place. He answered Yubo's prayer for bigger jobs. We know that we are so blessed that Yubo has a good job with good benefits (that's helping me get healthy) and that I have the ability to continue school without having to work. We have A LOT to be thankful for and we know it all comes from God.