Adventures in IKEA

So today was a holiday at the U.N. Being that it IS the U.N., everyone observed Eid, or the end of Ramadan, and so we at the U.N. got a day off. It also means the General Conference was on break for a day.

Thankfully, I got to sleep in, which is always good for me. Today was also Thursday, which means laundry day. Once I got up, I helped my Tita Ruth with some household chores and even assigning my cousins some chores of their own. Well, more like forcing them through necessity. In this case, making them change their own bedsheets by taking their old ones and leaving the new ones on their bed. So if they want to sleep, they're going to have to fix their own bed.

Later that day, my Tita took me IKEA and if you have never been to an IKEA before, believe me when I say that it is an addicting home store. Sometimes when I go to an IKEA I'm like a kid in a candy store because of the ideas I can get for fixing the home or whatnot. In today's case, I definitely was feeling giddy walking through the doors.

Intending to just get a few things, I felt inspired and looked around for a few things that I can use to fix my room a bit. My Tita said I could do it and also changed it into her "Chill Room" when I leave the house. I got into a creative storm brewing in my mind as I perused through the candles and photo frames. Fun times.

We also had dinner there, which was always interesting. Ever had an organic pork chop? Yeah, that's what we had for dinner. Apparently organic means that the pig was fed all-natural stuff. Whatever that means. It was decent though I could've have gone for another slice of carrot cake. Yum!

Funny thing happened while we were paying for our goodies. Apparently one of the items we wanted didn't have a price tag so I had to run back and get one with a price tag. Once I came back, another item also didn't have a tag. Our cashier was really nice and was trying to help us out. She asked the guy next her and he explained it was a set, etc. Then out of the blue, a lady in line lost her temper and basically threw a major tantrum. I was shocked at first but then I had to try so hard not to laugh aloud. Tita got a little scared. The cashier lady said just ignore the woman. All I know is if that impatient woman came at me there was going to be a WWE smackdown in IKEA.

Now with all the new rearranging and removing a lot of the excess stuff in my room, it's now looking like someone lives in the room and not so much like a storage space. Until next time . . . Guten Nacht! :)