Ikea

A day that involves a trip to Ikea is a full day.

Jim and I didn't exactly start out on time today. We slept in. That's kind of an understatement. I got up at 1pm, showered, and went back to drag Jim out of bed around 2pm. We meandered out of the house around 3pm, intent on hiking. Ahh hiking... it wasn't exactly a successful trip. We made it to the state park, we found the path, we followed the path in the wrong direction and then we followed an 'unofficial' path...which led into the words... along the side of a hill and then disappeared. The resulting pissyness on my part cut the hike short as I stormed back to the car.

What is the solution to pissyness? Shopping!

After hitting up a few consignment shops with no success we headed over to ikea to drool over a new bookcase/desk. As is my usual luck with ikea we get to the correct aisle and bin in the self serve area to find that they are all out of the bookcase we wanted and that they wont be restocking them for 7-10 days. Yippee. After wavering back and forth for a while about whether or not to just buy it in a different finish or the right finish but a smaller size I turned around to see an abandoned looking cart with the EXACT bookshelf we wanted on it! A quick few questions to the stockboy standing nearby showed that the cart was merchandise being restocked after having been abandoned on the floor!! Whoohoo!!! Victory is mine!

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It wont fit in the car.

Are you kidding me?

In, out, in, out, trunk, backseat, seat down, motherf*ck.

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What seemed like an eternity later we finagle a way to bungee the trunk closed around the desk portion. The bookcase fits in the front seat if we lay it flat. Jim and I were both frustrated and cranky but at least we figured out and got home. Tomorrow I plan on cleaning out all the random crap that's been piling up in the 'den' and finishing it's conversion to office/guest bedroom. We're going to look for a sofabed to make it so we have a place for company to sleep. But I at least want to get the office end of things up and running so I have a place to study in peace and quiet when school starts in June.