IKEA!

When my mom and I first moved to California we would take epic day trips to Sacramento. Mom and Grandma would shop til they dropped, scoping out the best deals in town and papa would entertain me. When I was younger, that was easy; he just took me to the nearest Chucky Cheese. When I got older, I divided my time between shopping with the girls and getting ice cream with the Papa! As school and work got busier, our trips to Sac town lessened…but, with great gusto and ambition, we decided to conquer the great store of IKEA last weekend…and, I’ll buy anyone an ice cream cone if they can guess the correct amount of time that we spent in IKEA…the amount of time that we spent in one single solitary store. All I can say is, thank goodness IKEA has a food shop!

My mission: CURTAINS

My victim: Grandma

My poor Grandma. I don’t know how she gets stuck with me! There is a running joke in my family that Missy can get a lil cranky when she gets a lil hungry. By a lil cranky I mean a lil cranky like The Hulk gets a lil angry…just a lil bit.

Everyone thought we were in good shape. We toured the second floor of IKEA. By the way, the 2nd floor of IKEA is where everything in my mind clicked and HGTV synapses and connections fired in my brain all at once like a…like a…like a sonic decorating boom going off in my head! The 2nd floor of IKEA is where I discovered that all of my HGTV watching paid off. So much sonic booming was going on in my head that it hurt, folks! So, anyways, we thought we were in good shape because we all had full bellies. After what felt like half a day spent on the 2nd floor of IKEA, we finally made our way down to the first floor. The place where dreams come true and decorating magic is brought to life.

I got pillow covers.

I got pillows.

I got more pillow covers.

I made my way to the curtains.

I got some curtains that I fell in love with on the 2nd floor of IKEA. (Decorating dreams do come true, folks!)

Then, I started “MISSION: BEDROOM CURTAINS.”

I don’t know at what point I enlisted my Grandma’s help.

I don’t know at what point I realized that IKEA was not as magical as I thought and that curtains that I liked were not going to magically appear right before my eyes.
I do know that at some point I became quite stressed. (OK, so maybe I still have some things to learn from HGTV!)

I also know that I became even more stressed when I realized that everyone was finished walking through the whole entire store except for me…and my grandma who got stuck with me!

Frustrated, and after hours of looking for curtains that did not exist, I gave up and moved on, leaving the store with out the curtains I originally set out to buy.


So, lessons learned:

Don’t try to buy bedroom curtains when you don’t have a comforter for your bed…buy the comforter first.

Always make a return trip to IKEA after you’ve shown your husband everything you bought so you can go back and buy everything you didn’t buy that is required to assemble everything you did buy! Kapeesh? Kapeesh!