So as I was saying, the girlfriend and I bought a table. It's bar counter height, has 4 relatively comfortable chairs, and expands to accommodate 6 through the hidden butterfly leaf. Which is moot since we don't really have the space - or the chairs - to expand it for any reason. But we can if we want to (and maybe I will if I need a large surface for something like...something).
We went all over the place to find this table, the one we could not only stomach the price of, but actually liked the color, the design, the room for me to not slam my knee into the side piece, and a myriad of other features that only serve as discussion points for 'why two people will argue in a store over something like the edge design for 10 minutes.'
Which is actually pretty funny to look back on, as we both really cared about certain aspects of table design, and apparently when shopping for furniture, it was very controversial for either of us to imply in the slightest that perhaps the other was being ridiculous.
Very controversial.
In the beginning we were rather set on a table from this magical place where everyone must be rich as rich can be, a land called Po Terry B'arn. For the low, low price of 3 sheep, a cow with a missing udder, and a small Ecuadorian child, you could obtain one half of one quarter of this table. And woe unto you if you want some place to park your caboose at this fairy tale table, you poor, about to be poorer, bastard.
So in the beginning we were in turmoil. One wanted to immediately purchase the table, the other wanted to save up.
In the end, we were in turmoil. One wanted to move bookshelves - loaded with books - across the room since the bookshelves went with the table, the other wanted to avoid doing any such thing.
But after the end, after moving bookshelves, parting with only 1.5 sheep, a spare Ecuadorian child we ordered via Amazon Prime, and a bucket of partially clean milk from our utterly sad deformed cow, we have a dining room that looks decent, some lessons learned, and some new fodder for therapists in future years.
