Are Those Meat Hooks?

After brunch on Sunday Noelle, Rose & Odum decided to accompany me to Ashley Furniture to look at kitchen tables. Not only did I find a couple of viable options, we also found some furniture for the family room. The only problem is if I buy it and they come over, they'll never leave.I have to say, this couch was extremely comfortable... so comfortable, in fact, the three of them lounged on it for at least 15 minutes. I lasted about 5, and then went on to look at other things. This is actually six different pieces put together. Each piece is like $198 and you can buy as many as you want and arrange them to your liking. On top of being comfortable and cheap, it's neutral and can easily go in the family room. I'm totally considering it.I want one of these twirly chairs... who wouldn't?! It's big, comfy, spins around in circles, and while it's a functional piece, it can also provide hours of entertainment! Noelle got dizzy and nauseous, so she'll be banned from it, but the rest of y'all can play on it!

The Queen of Shiba, himself. Seriously. He said this was going to be his new profile picture on Facebook. If he changes it, let me know. I think he's more of a diva than all the divas combined!

After Ashley, we decided to check out another place that is going out of business. It's called Civilizzation and I'm not sure if it's local or nationwide. None of us had ever been there but have seen their ads all over town and figured it was the kind of furniture I'd like. Our first clue should have been when we pulled up ... there was a dude in a chicken suit with half the face missing and loosely safety-pinned together.We went inside and there were a couple of art pieces on the wall. They were both large gray canvases and had either ginormous black plastic bugs crawling up them, or black plastic army dudes rappelling off of them. WHAT THE FUCK? For some stupid reason, we ventured further into the building, then Odum asked, "What are those tracks in the ceiling for?" I tried not to think about it because as the building was becoming more creepy, as was the furniture and the maze through which we were coerced to see the entire showroom (or mini showrooms as they were).

We seriously had to follow a maze of furniture and random deco crap through the whole place. There was really weird stuff all up in the ceiling in addition to the metal tracks running through the building. After we'd been in there approximately 1.5 minutes, we wanted the hell out. Sadly, we had to find our way out first! As we passed through the office and got close to the front door we saw a bunch of fabric samples... they were speared onto meat hooks like the one above and hanging from some of the tracks in the ceiling. WTF!?

It took us all a while to chill the fuck out after the store...it was uber creepy. Afterwards, Odum and I ran over to my grandparents' house to give my grandma her shot. We were discussing with them about the store we'd just been to and how creepy and weird it was and how we thought it was a slaughterhouse. So Grandpa asked where the store was and blurts out, "Oh yeah, that's the old so-and-so meat butchering plant." Gross! That explains everything... but doesn't make me feel any less weirded out.