Saturday, January 26, 2008

The Ikea Whore Strikes Again!

After the girl's lesson this morning, we headed to the land of the free breakfast. Okay, while it's not really free - they off a .99, 1.99, or a 2.99 breakfast with coffee. And what 5 year old doesn't love, love, love coffee?

Alright she had orange juice and I had the java. When all the food was cleared, I grabbed the coffee cup and dropped her off at the kids room and headed back to the cafe with a book and refill. Forty five minutes to sit and read. Alone. And drink. It's really quite perfect. My private utopia. With 15 minutes of free time left, I start planning the living room.

I picked up two packages of orange sheer panels, a wire curtain rod, colored picture frames, and then picked her up and headed through the checked out. My 6 dollar breakfast bill ended up being a 50.00 field trip. There is so much I NEED from Ikea. Okay, okay, I'll call them "wants".

I have an insanely long living room and no playroom so my goal was to move the entertainment center, flip the couch, move a chair, figure out the curtain rod, and hang the new curtains. Then throw her stuff back in her new "room" and hang her pictures in the frames and call it a day.

Of course I'm mostly halfway through this ordeal when I realize my cordless drill is dead. So very, very dead. It's been charging for three hours and it's still mostly dead. So now I have (drum roll please...) a huge mess.

No wait, now I have two giant messes. Without her play area fixed up, I now have half her stuff in the kitchen/dining room/office and the other mess is the unfinished living room.

I could not move the entertainment center by myself with anything in it. I unplugged and removed the dvd player, the vhs player, and the wii. I cannot figure out all of these plugs and cords. The boy is off with friends so I have to wait for him to come home and reset it up. And I guess deep down inside I don't want to!

I'm heading for Pinkberry. I cannot take this do-it-herself project without crying in my frozen crack yogurt.

Do you have any idea how bad network television is on Saturday night?

2 comments:

manda said...

Im so very jealous of your ikea shopping trip! Not at all jealous of everything that happened after.

A Girl, A Boy, and Me said...

The weekend ended on a nice note. And because I was out of the house all day Sunday I kind of forgot about the huge mess and will have to deal with it today. :P