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Well after the chatter about who has the bigger addiction in this household David has gone and treated himself to yet more gadgets! This time it is the rather beautiful looking Sonos Touch Screen Controller and the Sonos ZP90 Zonplayer which for those who haven’t come across them before are for playing music around the home wirelessly. Apparently it plugs into the amp in the lounge and away you go, it’s probably not that simple but David sorts that kind of thing out and I just sit back and enjoy the benefits! We will be able to add more wireless speaker thingy wotsits in other rooms in the apartment and have the same or different music playing in each room which will be great for parties. It will be with us tomorrow so David is beside himself with excitement and he even paid slightly more so that he could get it delivered sooner! So do we need one?….no! Am I pleased that he has bought one? ….yes! Am I pleased that he is addicted to gadgets?….Sometimes….maybe…oh OK then yes I am!
… BUT they are not for our apartment!!! They are for a rental apartment of ours which should be finished and ready for us by the end if this month. We bought off plan with friends of ours nearly two years ago and there have been many delays along the way including the developer falling out with the contractor a few months ago which resulted in the contractors walking off the job and unfinished windows being boarded up!
Anyway all is good now and the exciting part of furnishing it is nearly upon me. We bought it to make a quick profit and sell on at the time but since then the housing market has obviously gone tits up so we are going to keep hold of it and rent it out for a while…..fingers and toes crossed!
When you come to make lists of things to buy it’s amazing how quickly that list grows, everything from egg cups to bedlinen to a kettle and chairs! So I have been scouting around on the Interboogle and I came across three Arne Jacobsen Series & chairs on the Retrosixty website which I have just bought for a very good price indeed! I am now on the hunt for a dining table to team up with them and I may go for the Doksta table from IKEA, I would love a Saarinen or Arkana tulip table but we have a strict budget to stick to and I would only worry about it getting wrecked. We already have a sofa because we are using one of our old ones which is still in very good condition (because it was my sofa and I looked after it unlike Davids which is filthy and wearing very thin in places!) and just needs to be cleaned and spruced up a bit. Although I will be having a big shopping trip to the Swedish blue and yellow superstore I am trying to avoid it ending up looking like an IKEA-fest in the apartment.
…Ooh that feels better! Yep I have another little beauty on it’s way to me (teaser pic above)! Where will it all end? Well an apartment full of chairs with plenty of places to sit…..that’s assuming that I actually let anyone use them of course. Why some people assume that they can plonk their arse on one of my chairs is beyond me!!! David was complaining when I said that I wanted another one but I reminded him of his total and utter addiction to gadgets and the fact that as soon as we got to our hotel in NYC he wanted to go and track down somewhere (namely Virgin in Times Square which had closed down but he didn’t know , oh the look on his face, or Bestbuy) to pre-order a Zune. Of course he already has an i-Pod Touch and didn’t need one but it doesn’t stop him obsessing! Oh did I mention that we were outside the Bestbuy store at 9am queueing to pick up the said Zune and he made his way through that store like a lunatic! Hmmmmm……who has the bigger addiction problem?…
