Weekend Warrior

We had rain yesterday. To some of you this may mean nothing, but...to us drought starved north Texans, all I can say is YAHOO! It sarted with the thunder boomers about midnight Saturday night and rained off and on all day yesterday. I have to admit I was more interested in the rain than the sermon at church.

While this wasn't conducive for getting out and cleaning up the yard, I'm sure we'll have all sorts of things sprouting and turning green. Just add water. This has been a very strange winter for us. The lowest temp was 17 degrees and highest 80. Problem is you never know what to expect.

On another note, I spent most of Saturday assembling two very large bookcases. I had picked them up Friday on the way home at a place called Ikea. It's an extremely large warehouse type store. When I finally decided which bookcases I wanted (there was a whole shit load of them), I tried to retrace my steps back to where I found them.

Now I'm not the type of person who can't find my way out of a paper sack, but I got lost in a stupid store. Somewhere along the line I jigged when I should have jogged. I finally had to ask a salesperson where the escalator was. As she so kindly pointed out to me, I couldn't get out that way because the escalator only goes up.

I didn't want out (not yet , anyway) I figured if I went back to the escalator where I came in, I could recreate my shopping adventure and find the damn cookcases. And I finally did, but it took awhile.

After copying down all the pertinent info from the sales tag, I followed all the signs to the "Self Serve" furniture pick-up. Next hurdle was to wrestle two boxes, 34"x72"x3" and weighing in at 47 lbs (but who's counting?) onto a flatbed cart, steering this thing without the benefit of a guidance system to the checkout counter, wait for the couple in front of me to dig out $5.83 from their collective pockets, pay for all my goodies and proceed to the loading spaces in front of the store.

Seeing as how I couldn't load those suckers by myself, I had to leave my $150.00 purchase setting there all alone, bring my car up and find some kid to lever them into the back of my Jeep. And I do mean lever. We had to slide them in on edge all the way up between the front seats to the dashboard. This made for great driving visibility.

Anyway, as I started to say, I spent Saturday afternoon putting them together. I had a couple of tense moments when I thought I was going to have to return them because a part was missing, or wrong. But in the end, I have to hand it to those Swedes. Everything was there and miracle of miracle, it all fit. The second one took a third of the time as the first one did.

I managed to wrestle them into place all by myself and even started loading books that were scattered around everywhere. Jimbob arrived home about then and I could see by his face that he didn't like them. Well tough titty fella, you can go with me to Ikea next time. FAT CHANCE!