Drapes

My glaring inability yesterday to find any form of window coverings is a pretty good example of how non-functional I can be some days. Four hours and endless miles in malls from Guy all the way down to Place des Arts- where I nearly came to tears when I realized I should have just gone to the Zeller's near my house... that I hadn't eaten anything except toast for two days and that if I am having guests on St. Patrick's day I had best have some decent curtains up.

It has been what now? 6, 7 weeks? It is almost spring. I should clean and build that coffee table. I should paint a bit.

But all I ended up doing today was taking my dress shirts into the dry cleaners along with my new suit.

And eating pasta salad.

It is hard shopping for drapes. You have to measure your windows, then get rods that fit the brackets that are already up and will not come out. Then, most of the draperies look like something the Queen would have at her summer palace, too frilly and paisley for a young urban man like myself with a taste for hyper modern furniture.

And the expense! At the Bay I could have spent $300+ on drapes, just for what was on sale! Zeller's is not much better- so I guess I will have to go to Ikea. I may even get the exact same blinds that she took with her. They were fine and colorful and they're cheap.

But I bet I'll tear up for no reason on the long bus ride back into town.