If it wasn’t for the laundry room being located in the next building, I wouldn’t have even gotten out of the apartment yesterday. My Swedish class has been rescheduled, due to a conference. So, my Friday was free of that stress. I worked on Swedish and paying bills online at home. (I’m 3/4 time my first year, so I don’t go in to work on Fridays.)
When preparing dinner, I realized that my spice drawer was not doing so well under the weight.
Anya was out with friends at a birthday celebration on Friday evening, so she is finding some good connections and she had a good time.
Today, I ventured to the other side of town for shopping.
First, I stopped at a huge sporting goods store, appropriately called XXL, which has an IKEA-like path. Ooh, I love this store! My task today was to buy a ping pong table. I compared prices online, and found a good price of a nicer table that was on sale. If I can get it locally, I like to support the local business. Indeed, it was in stock at the same price, so I bought it. It should be delivered for free early next week.
So, instead of typical living room furniture, we’ll have a ping pong table!
I was in the XXL store neighborhood anyway, because I was going to pick up some things at IKEA. Now going to IKEA with a bicycle is like going to Costco on a bicycle! I had to be very careful what I was going to get, so that I could carry everything back. I zip-tied a milk crate on the back of my bike (a milk crate that I bought and shipped with books in it for my dorm-style portable bookshelf). Then, I could carry more stuff. I needed some curtains, bedding, and towels. Now I have all the bedding we need, so that I can return the borrowed bedding and towels to Jim and Christina.
With the backpack on my back, I could manage everything pretty well. Somehow though, when I’m in this area of town, my ride back is not quite the route I took to get there. I ended up with a bit of scenic route back home.
The rest of the day was Swedish and getting settled with all the IKEA stuff. My new curtains look better than the bed sheet and Maasai blanket I was clipping up with a binder clip every night to darken the windows, however, my MacGALver method actually did a better job of keeping out the light than my “darkening” curtains. It isn’t too much of a problem now with the sunset at 5:37, but next spring and into June–when the sun doesn’t set until 11:15 and rises at 3:26–I’ll be clipping my blanket in the window again! (This doesn’t even include dusk and twilight.)
Later, I had to go out again and get some groceries. There aren’t the blue laws here in Sweden like in Norway, which keeps the grocery stores closed on Sunday, but it was good weather for biking to the store in the afternoon. Anya was happy that I bought more pistachio ice cream. It really is wonderful!
With blessings,
Beth
To repair drawer: 1-empty it and leave it empty.
2-the bottom pieces looks like IKEA sixteenth-inch particleboard. Hoping the height is not needed, a little quarter inch plywood, cut to fit the drawer bottom, ought to work. If you go with this one, glue the particleboard to the plywood to keep it from sagging later. No plywood, look for dense cardboard.
3-ask someone smarter than I am. There are many.
Marv
So, is the ping-pong table one of those collapsable types? I think it’s a great idea. . . be the first on your block. . .