IKEA, Tidying, Jorb
Got up early for my Doctor appointment. Since it's the first of the month, I used a ticket to get there, and bought a new bus pass at the Shoppers Drug Mart on the same block.
Having discovered yesterday after partway building a bookcase that I have a shelf-frame but not enough actual shelves, I then proceeded to IKEA Coquitlam for more shelving and pegs for my hand-me-down IVAR. Note for future reference: our same nightstand is selling for $20 cheaper this year. They don't sell five-packs of shelves anymore, so I had an "adventure" getting everything1 home. Also, the boughten items go into plastic hand-bags not shoulder-bags (and even the "buy your own carry bag for the store" is a hand-held only; the ones you borrow whilst there are shoulderable, at least for me). Arg. Now my forearm muscles are asking me not to move my fingers or grip anything heavy for the foreseeable future. On the way back: the bus driver from IKEA to the Braid skytrain station reminded me to pay an extra dollar because I was in zone 3. I counted out ten dimes (I had a roll with me), poured them in the thing, he said it only rang up as fifty cents, and I had to put more in. I managed to get all the way to my streetcorner by skytrain and escalator and bus and sidewalk, and then accepted help from a passerby who carried the shelves to my building.
Though the apartment looks like somebody just moved in, and I have many organisatory chores to choose amongst, getting all the books off the couch (which are in between bookcases) for Doctor Who tonight is my most urgent priority. Although I mostly wanted to lie down and rest my arms and shoulders, I thusly started unbagging the shelfy bits. Only to discover… No crossbrace for the bookcase! I lost it somewhere between the checkout (it's on my receipt) and my apartment building. It's probably somewhere on Translink property. Luckily, I can still shelve the couch books, because I did "inherit" one crossbrace (assembled yesterday), and will just have to go back to an IKEA for another one. Extremely. Vexing.
In other news, I have a job for the next month, "receiving" at a bookstore (different branch of same company as last year). It is super-awesome because I will only be receiving and thus staying in the backroom pretty much the whole time! It also means that starting tomorrow I will be required actually to leave the apartment each and every weekday, during daylight. Wacky! [Edit: which means that I bought the wrong zone of bus pass this morning. Arg! Anybody want a zone-1 TranSlink pass for December?]
1 IKEA LIST: {five longer IVAR shelves, one crossbrace for the IVAR frame, 3 packets of cookies, 2 2-packs of VHS KASSETT boxes, remote-control couch strap/bag thing, "oil/vinegar" (but really soy sauce) cruet, pack of 40 primary coloured magnets, 2-pack of power-strips, another soft-sided hanging niches thing for the closet, a pencil case}
Having discovered yesterday after partway building a bookcase that I have a shelf-frame but not enough actual shelves, I then proceeded to IKEA Coquitlam for more shelving and pegs for my hand-me-down IVAR. Note for future reference: our same nightstand is selling for $20 cheaper this year. They don't sell five-packs of shelves anymore, so I had an "adventure" getting everything1 home. Also, the boughten items go into plastic hand-bags not shoulder-bags (and even the "buy your own carry bag for the store" is a hand-held only; the ones you borrow whilst there are shoulderable, at least for me). Arg. Now my forearm muscles are asking me not to move my fingers or grip anything heavy for the foreseeable future. On the way back: the bus driver from IKEA to the Braid skytrain station reminded me to pay an extra dollar because I was in zone 3. I counted out ten dimes (I had a roll with me), poured them in the thing, he said it only rang up as fifty cents, and I had to put more in. I managed to get all the way to my streetcorner by skytrain and escalator and bus and sidewalk, and then accepted help from a passerby who carried the shelves to my building.
Though the apartment looks like somebody just moved in, and I have many organisatory chores to choose amongst, getting all the books off the couch (which are in between bookcases) for Doctor Who tonight is my most urgent priority. Although I mostly wanted to lie down and rest my arms and shoulders, I thusly started unbagging the shelfy bits. Only to discover… No crossbrace for the bookcase! I lost it somewhere between the checkout (it's on my receipt) and my apartment building. It's probably somewhere on Translink property. Luckily, I can still shelve the couch books, because I did "inherit" one crossbrace (assembled yesterday), and will just have to go back to an IKEA for another one. Extremely. Vexing.
In other news, I have a job for the next month, "receiving" at a bookstore (different branch of same company as last year). It is super-awesome because I will only be receiving and thus staying in the backroom pretty much the whole time! It also means that starting tomorrow I will be required actually to leave the apartment each and every weekday, during daylight. Wacky! [Edit: which means that I bought the wrong zone of bus pass this morning. Arg! Anybody want a zone-1 TranSlink pass for December?]
1 IKEA LIST: {five longer IVAR shelves, one crossbrace for the IVAR frame, 3 packets of cookies, 2 2-packs of VHS KASSETT boxes, remote-control couch strap/bag thing, "oil/vinegar" (but really soy sauce) cruet, pack of 40 primary coloured magnets, 2-pack of power-strips, another soft-sided hanging niches thing for the closet, a pencil case}