Today, I was supposed to go to the beach with my elder son, but the weather turned out a bit more cloudy, so the beach was postponed for some other day. As I have already made up my mind to 'leave' the house today, looking at the fairly cloudy sky, there was only one place that came to my mind. Right! The perfect place where one can spend as much as half-a-day wondering just to end up buying all those soooo-important-but-unnecessary-things-that -make-me-happy....have a clue? Well let me tell you, the store is called IKEA!
Not only do they have the ugliest and horrible commercial on the TV, but they also came up with this unique idea of making the whole store in a ONE-WAY direction. You have to enter 'only' at the door where the ENTRANCE is, go ONE-WAY and pass the whole shop, which, cleverly enough, has the restaurant situated in the middle of it and the super market at the end! Sure, I have gone in the opposite direction, and it wasn't even for a bet...I just like doing things the other way around!
I left a note at home that I'll be gone for a while, by this time, they are quite capable of serving themselves and cleaning after them, as my plan seems to be working to my joy and their disgust!
Driving down from my village towards the high way, I was having a 'talk' with Mr.Murphy-Law, saying : 'I WILL FIND A PARKING-PLACE RIGHT INFRONT OF THE STORE'....when my cell phone started 'talking' : 'Hey pick it up, hey, common, it could be important!!' /see http://www.hallmark.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/article|10001|10051|/Hallma... - downlouds/ so answering the call, and knowing that a policeman could realy give me a ticket for doing so....but as Hoops said, it could be important, I heard my husband, who has just come home for lunch, asking me where am I off too? 
Maybe because I was so nice and polite, Murphy-the-law decided to grant me with a parking space right infront of the entrance..HAH!
Yeah, I'm being 'good' today, and I won't go in the opposite direction, and 'no thank you, I already have the IKEA card', so I proceeded in, took a glance at the yellow-plastic-bags-with-IKEA-written-in-blue, wondered if I'm going to realy buy something, then just decided to take one, as you never know..right?
Now, when you enter this store, they always put something right at the beginning of the store, so if you don't decide that you realy need that unnecessary thing...and later on you keep thinking about it, the whole time, you end up going that opposite direction, just to get the damn unnecessary thing that you can't live without.
But, as I mentioned, I was in a good mood, and made up my mind to be NICE. Being a GEMINI, I can hardly stick to this decission, as besides MYSELF there is another 'self' working against me all the time.
I stroll along the first part, where mostly furniture and stuff for your living room is displayed, and as an architect and interior designer, I usually end up criticizing and wondering who the hell would buy all that crap...wow...and for THAT price...common...are those Vikings crazy¿¿¿¿ No, they are actually clever, as most , if not all the things, are made in Turkey, Indonesia, Thailand...etc, so ...clever ..eh, they give their design, and the low-payed-workers do the rest.
OMG, look at that blanket, its sooooo soft, and no it doesn't matter that I already have more than 10 similar ones at home, but this colour...wow, its so cute! Right, and that other one too...whooop, they enter that yellow plastic bag, and I start feeling the urge to continue whoooping other stuff in that bag.
WOW, now, I haven't seen those pillows yet, must be new, and omg, they are sooo big, I could put them on the floor....now, common Lila, says that other 'self' , you don't need THAT! Its just that 'he-or-she' always starts nagging and complaining when I start having fun! OK OK, no pillows...and YOU, shut up!
Sheets, beddings, duvet-covevers.....ahhhhhhh! Oh, this is soooo much like 'what-my-grandmother-used-to-have', whooop goes that duvet-cover in the plastic bag. Oh, and that burgundy-red is so soft like velvet...but, ok, I've got one already...but its sooooo nice....no no no no no, enought. Rite!
Plain white candles, rite, oh and some that smell real nice, wow! And that glass holder for the candle, yeah, Napkins, wow look at that Dino-like-spoon-for-spagetti, must have!!!! Ok, and look at this, you klick it, it opens, you dipp it in your tea-bag, klick it again, and voala, it goes straight to your hot cup of water...and you get tea...nice! Mmmmmmm now this is REAL cute, you can use it as a cork for your bottles, it even has a spiral and a star at the end of it and its yellow....cute! A pack of round mats for glasses, yeah, one always needs those, and these are from a type of Japanese-paper-with-apple-blossom-flowers, yeah, can't resist. Omg, istn't he just awsom, a gray coudly sheep with white legs and face,,,,awwwwwwww. Hey, this is a cute wooden-'thing' for the bathroom to place soap, and that wooden frame, and that other glass frame, hey, its got 2-of'em-in-a-pack, rite.
Ummmmm, restaurant, do I or don't I? Errrrrr...ummmmmmm, thinking of that apple cake and Almondy, and meat-balls, and sandwiches, salad...maybe....nawwwwwwww will get at the end a hot dog, and buy meat-balls at the end of the store in their supermarket. Yeah, rite...leeetttmmmeeesseeee, Raspberry jam, meat-balls, ginger cookies, and that other box of cookies...yeah the-can't-resist-box / have tons of them at home...but/ ok...now don't pile up, so no caviar, horseradish /the only place to find horseradish is Ikean on this island, they don't even know what horseradish is..strange/ salmon-paste-in-a-tube, WASA crackers, dill /another thing they don't know about, but IKEA sells it/, Almondy, apple cake, friend onions, no no no no no, I have all that at home, now, Lila, don't be silly....yeah, sure, am I good today or ain't I...I AM!....WOW, A small bottle with RUDOLF...OMG, what kind of drink is that...do they make drinks from Rudolf????? MUST TRY!
So my shoulder aching from that heavy yellow bag, I reached the end of the ONE-WAY-IKEA-STREET, waiting to pay......OMG, wth, I must have bought quite a lot of things, welllll, looking at those hot dogs, I needed one and oh boy, was I thirsty!
A couple of IKEA bags in one hand and a couple of IKEA bags in the other , holding my vallet, and trying not to spill all the change at the counter, while waiting for that hot dog...oh , right, and one of those flavoured-waters, please! Thank you.
Trying to eat the hot dog, and not getting all the mustard dripping at my clothes, holding the bags in the same hand, and in the other a few more bags and a bottle of flavoured water, where the hell are my car keys....yeah, I'm leaving, could you just wait till I find my car keys, and let me get rid of those bags in the car....common, you want Murphy-Law too, eh, well WAIT!!!!!!!!!!
Driving back home, eating the rest of the hot dog and drinking that special flavoured water...ahhhhhhhhh, finnaly I reach home. I enter and yell....'Stefan, get those things out of the car.....please!
I found my husband in the living room, wathcing TV /where else/...he looked up and asked:
-' Did you get the bulbs?'
- 'What bulbs?'
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