Living in a GAP
Well, last night I had one of those dreams. You know, that dream where you drive hours to an IKEA and buy like $1200 worth of... IKEA... The kind of dream where the actual Swedish employees come out to your car and congratulate you on how much IKEA you can pack into your car. (and say this in Swedish like "Hej Da!" Then that otherwise pleasant dream turns scary as you attempt to assemble most of it as soon as you get home at 10:00 PM. Of course wonderful things happen that make you glad its just a dream like nailing the entire backing of the TV unit on and then realizing you should have put the wood grain on the inside, but didn't because the dang instructions have no words, just goofy Swedish illustrations. Of course, this portion of the dream is not complete until you turn into a particle board drilling, widget screwing, cardboard box yielding zombie... going to bed around 2:00 AM.
And then you wake up and are happy that this really didn't happen. I mean who would spend $1200 at IKEA? Right? So you walk downstairs and begin to smell the faint waftings of cardboard packing and plastic stain. Then you open up a kitch cabinet door and (shriek) you find that handy-dandy little plastic gadget that will make your life infinitely easier. You know the thing made out of one piece of plastic that you can use to hold plastic grocery bags, or as a toilet paper dispenser... all this and more for a mere $2 at .... (nooooooooo) IKEA!
Yes, so my arm is still bruised from pinching. But I must say that for the price we got a ton of organizational materials like baskets, storgage with doors and living room furniture.
But the reason for this post... we got this cube like shelf to hold our clothes in the bedroom. We assembled it and but the designated lights on it and realized... that it looks like we are living inside of a GAP store. You know the ones with the jeans and the bent-on-the-70s-coming-back fashions.
Well, I say go with it... I'm thinking about making everything in our room match this unit and paint the walls and hang up some huge posters of good looking people in denim. I'm not sure what Jaime would think about this.
Well, I have so much I should write, but alas, I have an 8:00 AM meeting today (its almost 1 AM).
And then you wake up and are happy that this really didn't happen. I mean who would spend $1200 at IKEA? Right? So you walk downstairs and begin to smell the faint waftings of cardboard packing and plastic stain. Then you open up a kitch cabinet door and (shriek) you find that handy-dandy little plastic gadget that will make your life infinitely easier. You know the thing made out of one piece of plastic that you can use to hold plastic grocery bags, or as a toilet paper dispenser... all this and more for a mere $2 at .... (nooooooooo) IKEA!
Yes, so my arm is still bruised from pinching. But I must say that for the price we got a ton of organizational materials like baskets, storgage with doors and living room furniture.
But the reason for this post... we got this cube like shelf to hold our clothes in the bedroom. We assembled it and but the designated lights on it and realized... that it looks like we are living inside of a GAP store. You know the ones with the jeans and the bent-on-the-70s-coming-back fashions.
Well, I say go with it... I'm thinking about making everything in our room match this unit and paint the walls and hang up some huge posters of good looking people in denim. I'm not sure what Jaime would think about this.
Well, I have so much I should write, but alas, I have an 8:00 AM meeting today (its almost 1 AM).
posted by Jason Kichline at 12:25 AM
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