new furniture!!

last nite after work we headed over to ikea to spend our engagement gift vouchers 8). zac hates ikea so i told him he just had to come cuz i needed him to pick up the car (the car we needed is located on his way home from work) and to help me load things into the car. other than that he just had to nod and smile at everything i picked out (he doesn' really care what the house looks like--he's happy with the giant desk we're using as a tv stand now and the fact there's cute little simpson's characters (read: junk) all over the tv and no space to store dvds. i'd gone on-line and picked out everthing i wanted so all we had to do was take a look at it in real life (i changed my mind about the tv stand, we decided on a bigger one that we saw at the shop) and then go find it in the warehouse. i think we were out of there in just under an hour (and there was no "ikea rage" happening). we ended up getting 3 cd/dvd shelfs (one to add to the kitchen one that's already filled with cds, and 2 to put in the lounge room for dvds and simpsons characters etc...), a tv stand, a basic shelving unit for the kitchen cuz what we're using to store all our food looks HORRIBLE and is falling apart and a 5 drawer dresser for the bedroom (finally i can put clothes in a drawer--i've been hanging EVERYTHING up, except the few things i can fit in the 3 small drawers in my nite stand). after cashing in all our gift certificates it only cost us $23! so i spent 2 hours last nite assembling the shelf for the kitchen and the drawers (that also includes time i spent looking for a couple screws i managed to misplace while assembling things-- i hate that the only give you EXACTLY the bits you need cuz no matter how careful i am i ALWAYS misplace a screw or 2. it also includes the fact that i didn't think to change the battries in my cordless screwdriver until 10 screws from the end-- those last 10 screws went in SOOOOO fast!!). hopefully this morning i'll get a chance to start on 1 of the cd shelves before i go to work. i also have to pack cuz we're going away for the weekend right after work. i'll be spending sunday nite probably finishing the assembly ikea furniture.