Saturday, January 31
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Decent sleep.
Our sweet animals. We're pretty fortunate to have some snuggle muffin cats; pretty much any time you sit down you get someone sitting on you.
My Sweetie and I headed to the city, to Ikea for shelving for the pottery studio.
It got kind of heated because I felt like we were at cross purposes. He just wanted more SHELVES, and I wanted to get something closer to shelving with a top surface that could be used as a counter; we have almost zero counter space so far. Pottery is counter space intensive.
He can be a bit oblivious, and says he's "listening to me", but he doesn't. So I had to BE FIRM.
Oddly, once he saw the kitchen islands at Ikea, something went off in his head, like he could finally get what I meant. We didn't get an island, two more industrial units with rough wooden tops that we can seal at home, one on wheels.
Once we found those, I felt better about things, as the weird insistence on his part to just get more shelving was just not going to help us as much as he thought it would.
We picked up some other things along the way, as one does in Ikea. I got some house plants, we got a small inexpensive stool, some super inexpensive dish towels, and some pillows from the area near the check outs that were floor models.
One of the pillows is some kind of memory foam type that is meant to support knees or hips when you sleep.
I also found in the discount area, a small set of Billy shelves for the bathroom, to replace a leaning, not very nice small shelf that is currently not adequate.
So, maybe a few needs filled.
That ate up most of our afternoon.
Then we went to eat at one of our vegan places, and that was nice. They messed up the Brussels sprouts once, but since then they've been fine.
We came home and unloaded most of our purchases, and then watched "Elizabeth: the Golden Age". Somewhere I must have the companion film, "Elizabeth"...?
Decent sleep.
Our sweet animals. We're pretty fortunate to have some snuggle muffin cats; pretty much any time you sit down you get someone sitting on you.
My Sweetie and I headed to the city, to Ikea for shelving for the pottery studio.
It got kind of heated because I felt like we were at cross purposes. He just wanted more SHELVES, and I wanted to get something closer to shelving with a top surface that could be used as a counter; we have almost zero counter space so far. Pottery is counter space intensive.
He can be a bit oblivious, and says he's "listening to me", but he doesn't. So I had to BE FIRM.
Oddly, once he saw the kitchen islands at Ikea, something went off in his head, like he could finally get what I meant. We didn't get an island, two more industrial units with rough wooden tops that we can seal at home, one on wheels.
Once we found those, I felt better about things, as the weird insistence on his part to just get more shelving was just not going to help us as much as he thought it would.
We picked up some other things along the way, as one does in Ikea. I got some house plants, we got a small inexpensive stool, some super inexpensive dish towels, and some pillows from the area near the check outs that were floor models.
One of the pillows is some kind of memory foam type that is meant to support knees or hips when you sleep.
I also found in the discount area, a small set of Billy shelves for the bathroom, to replace a leaning, not very nice small shelf that is currently not adequate.
So, maybe a few needs filled.
That ate up most of our afternoon.
Then we went to eat at one of our vegan places, and that was nice. They messed up the Brussels sprouts once, but since then they've been fine.
We came home and unloaded most of our purchases, and then watched "Elizabeth: the Golden Age". Somewhere I must have the companion film, "Elizabeth"...?
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Date: 2026-02-01 10:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-02-03 06:57 am (UTC)Our Rabbie Burns Nicht didn't happen, due to the record snowstorm.
It's becoming a bit easy to postpone things I've been looking forward to doing.