…and I had the day off. Jealous?
This morning started out slow – I had a hard time getting up and getting going, but once I did, the kid and I had a pretty decent day.
First, I should say, any time I have a totally captive audience, I capture them and make them walk through Ikea with me. I mostly don’t like most of the stuff Ikea sells, but they do have a fairly decent glassware section and I kind of like their stainless kitchen storage gadgets – but beyond that, I’m not a huge fan. Anyway, today was no exception, off to Ikea the kid and I went – after I bribed him with Olive Garden, of course.
We ended up getting a few candles – that was a mistake – I picked the ‘unscented’ options, because I find that the scented ones don’t really smell all that good – and I was going for a decor piece, not a functional candle. Anyway – I said it was a mistake, because the first thing the old man says to me when he comes out of the bedroom after his shower is, “uh, did you smell those candles?” I said, “No, why?” and he said, “The black ones, they really smell bad…” so I told him to throw them in the trash – they were jut a few bucks and so he goes to grab them and he said, “here, smell” so I did – and almost vomited. It was bad, I’ll leave it at that – there are people that read here that I don’t want to scare off.
I did end up getting a few pieces of glassware that I really liked – so it wasn’t a total loss. The kid and I also walked around and looked at their kitchen cabinets etc, because I really do want a nice island for my kitchen and I’m not sure why I thought I’d find inspiration at Ikea – but I looked anyway and it wasn’t a total loss.
That, we’ve decided, will be the next project – it’ll be easy, because we’ve decided to buy pre-assembled base cabinets from Lowe’s and glaze them ourselves – making a combo island-slash-bar-slash-table – our kitchen isn’t huge, but we’re excited about freeing up some room by making a bigger utilitarian piece that will replace our existing table, while giving us more cabinet space.
Oh and I found something at Ikea that I am going to get as a gift for a friend, which she will love!
Anyway – all this was before the trip to the store – where I stocked up on dinner items for this week. Tonight is meatloaf, scalloped potatoes and couscous.
Speaking of, I better go check on it.
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