The Jute Runner It Is

I hate rug shopping.  First off, rugs are one of those household decors that you spend tons of money (and time) on but get minimal satisfaction from.  People rarely walk into your home and and say "God I love that rug" and if they do, more than likely it is because you went out on a limb with your selection and they secretly hate it.  Generally speaking, people instead comment on the painting, the couch, or the bookcase display. 

Our new apartment has cream carpet and no mud hall to clean Skyler off. I know you are thinking how dirty can she be?  A perfect example is today at the park.  We were walking home and before I know it, she is waist deep in a pond with green algea all over her legs..... disgusting.  As a result, it is essential to have a rug right by the front door if we have any hope of getting our security deposit back.  In attempts to save money, Moe and I tried to recycle our 5x7 rug from house and reuse it in our apartment.  Problem #1 was that it is cream so cream on cream looks stupid but we were willing to look past this.  Problem #2 was the rug didn't exactly fit the space.  It was too big for the area so you have to have part of it under our buffet stand and part of it hanging out.  Again, we were completely willing to turn our head to how ridiculous it looked except every day when we got home from work, the rug miraculously would move places.  After weeks of this, we came to one of two conclusions.  One....Skyler is doing shuttle runs around our apartment and pushing the rug up or TWO.... our apartment is haunted and the ghost is f'ing with our minds.  Either way, we decided this morning the rug had to go.  

So the task of the day was to buy a new rug.  Sounds simple enough.... a 4 ft by 8 ft rug.  Three hours and six stores later, no rug.  Apparently rugs don't come in a 4 ft width... they come in 1 ft or 2ft or 2.5 ft or 5 ft, but of course not in 4ft.  The second issue is that they were off the wall crazy patterns (like the ones that make you feel dizzy when you look at them) or they looked like something straight out of my grandma's house!  By the time I got to World Market, I was willing to buy anything. I finally landed on a 2.5 ft x 8 ft Jute Runner.  The pattern is a bit more than I am used too, BUT I have decided that our apartment looks too much like our house and me buying navy pillows for the couch instead of red did not satisfy my need to diversify our place. I settled on a bold crazy rug pattern instead.  I can't wait for Moe to get home tonight and hate it!  What's your vote?  Thumbs up or thumbs down?

- Miss J

Skyler is not sure what to think about this new item in our apartment.  She just sucks on her stuff animal and stares at it!  I've decided we got the hyper-emotional dog from the litter.