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December 1, 2007
An IKEA weekend.....
Last week Dave & Jen took my IKEA virginity. Sure, I'd looked at their catalogs and browsed their site on the internet, but I'd never actually experienced IKEA. I bought this dresser (in the black-brown finish) and this chandelier for my princess bedroom. Dave loaded them into my little hyundai, and to everyone's amazement, it all fit!
The next morning I set out for home, or thought I was setting out for home, one of my tires was completely flat. Mark (of Mark & Meryl fame) unloaded the dresser, extracted my spare, changed the tire, reloaded the dresser and rode around with me to get the tire fixed. An hour later I was back in business, and had a mostly uneventful drive home (with the spare tire sitting on top of the 176 pound boxes of dresser just in case).
Last night I carried everything in, and assembled the dresser. It really looks like the one in the store, nothing is crooked and all the drawers slide in and out smoothly. Although my knees are sporting some near-bruises from crawling around on the hardwood floor for three and a half hours, and there was one small hand injury involving a hammer (it wasn't my thumb, that's all I'm saying). This morning I installed the chandelier, turned the breaker on and it worked too! I think this could be real love.... *sigh*
Posted by Anna at December 1, 2007 4:03 PM