Ikea: land of wondrous distractions....
Aug. 23rd, 2003 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I just got back from a trip to Ikea. I had no need for furniture or lamps or anything major, though my friends did. And believe me, there was a sofa or two I could be persuaded to love. I needed a dish-rack and a saucepan. I got a saucepan, two semitransparent blue plastic trays, placemats, a lamp lit by tea candles (for the next big blackout), and a toilet brush.
And I had a wonderful time browsing. I love stuff there, even when it's things I wouldn't want to put in any house - like a bookshelf in the shape of a check-mark. Shelving, I adore good shelving - oh for a dozen sets of good bookshelves - and a place to put them!
I ran into an old friend named Shelley. "Phone me," she said. "E-mail me." She is a friend I have been planning or hoping to invite over for dinner for about two decades now. (Friends who haven't been invited over for a mere two or three years may cease to feel neglected, reading that.) This time I mean it. Can't e-mail her, I don't have her address, but a phone call is a real possibility.
I went into Michaels and swooned over their rubber stamping books. What is it that makes me love the art of rubber stamps so well? I make many greeting cards and gift tags and the like; pretty rudimentary stuff; I don't take the time to do anything ambitious. But how I love to see it. I was on a rubber-stamp mailing list for a while and loved seeing the terrific things people have made.
Another joy was discovering how good the food in the Ikea cafeteria is. I had an open-face egg and shrimp sandwich. Brings a smile to my face, really.
I had to think of "Fight Club", where the Narrator is referred to as "Ikea-boy". I can really relate.
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Date: 2003-08-23 03:29 pm (UTC)Rubberstamping, too? Girl, you and I were born to be friends.
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Date: 2003-08-23 08:38 pm (UTC)As for rubber stamps - d'you think it's one of those secret vices we shouldn't talk about? (g)
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Date: 2003-08-23 08:55 pm (UTC)Depends. How resistant are you to expressions of total, glazed boredom on the faces of your friends? LOL
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Date: 2003-08-23 09:10 pm (UTC)