Today I spent the day with my mother. I haven't spent that much time with her in a long time. I got to her house about 9:00 AM this morning. I went through the house with her talking about what she's going to get rid of and what she's going to keep and what furniture she needs to buy. She recently sold her house and bought a condo and has decided to get new bedroom furniture, dining room furniture, and living room furniture. We made plans to go furniture shopping today. She had picked out a handful of places to go. None of them were furniture stores I would buy anything from. But she's the one buying the furniture so I took her. We started out at The Room Store. Years ago when I first bought my condo and didn't have much money I bought a couch and a chair from this place. It's changed since then. The furniture is so tacky and cheap. We walked all through the place and my mother didn't find anything she cared for. As soon as we walked in the place we were accosted by several salesmen. This one asian guy actually followed us around the store. I finally stopped him and said he could stop following us because we aren't going to buy anything. He quickly apologized and went the other way. My mother started laughing. She couldn't believe I said that to him. But he was getting on my nerves and I knew we weren't going to buy anything. So we left that store.

Then we went to Marlo. Again, another cheap store. We walked around the whole store and she actually found a bedroom set that she liked. I didn't care of it at all. It's a medium oak colored set. I can't even describe the style. Kind of early American. It is made with some solid wood so it's not the worse choice she could have made. She currently has dark wood and hates dusting it so she's going with lighter wood this time. I tried to explain to her that light wood trend is over and it's back to darker, less ornate furniture. She didn't care. She knows what she likes and will probably buy it.

On the way home we stopped at Storehouse furniture. This is the place I bought all of my furniture. My mother doesn't want to spend nearly as much as I spent on mine. We made once complete circle of the store and she didn't find anything she liked. And when she looked at the prices she said this wasn't the store for her. After leaving Storehouse, she was disappointed with the whole furniture shopping outing. She was really hoping to find something she liked and order it today. I told her we could go again another day if she wanted. And that I'd take her back to Marlo to get the set she did like if she decided to buy it.

We were hungry by this time so we went to Subway for lunch. There was a really cute guy in line in front of us. So while my mother was talking about furniture, I was distracted with the eye candy. I don't think she picked up on it though. Anyway, after lunch I took her home. I decided to vacuum and wash my car while at her house. So I spent the next hour and a half cleaning my car. I haven't cleaned my car since last fall. It took awhile to get it all done. But now it looks really good. I probably won't get the chance to do that thorough of a cleaning for a long time. I'm glad I got it done.

I was so tired when I got home that I laid down and took a nap. When I woke up it was after 6:00 PM! I slept for almost 2 hours! I was supposed to call Shawn before he went out but by the time I woke up and remembered, it was too late. I will definitely call him tomorrow. I'm just going to relax tonight and watch TV.