ikea

i have this very odd shopping habit. it reared its ugly head during a trip to new england's one and only ikea store last weekend. i'll discuss ikea (aka my new lover) in a bit, but first this habit thing.
i believe that this springs from my inability to make decisions on occasion, or lots of occasions, depends on the weather. i'll see something i like a lot, pick it up, carry it around and then PUT IT BACK. maybe its a psychological thing where if i have it in my possession long enough, then i get sick of it and don't like it anymore. most often, i find myself doing this with clothing, but in ikea it was with a duvet set. i had been pining over said duvet set online for a while and had decided to buy it. so, i found it, picked it up and put it in my ginormous blue bag that ikea provides and walked around for a good 45 minutes before making my way back to the bedding section and depositing it back on the shelf. now, i'm thankful that i saved $40, but, i fear that this inability to commit to even the simplest of purchases is a sign of something larger. who the hell knows? maybe i'm just a dork.

onto ikea. despite the fact that its kind of in the middle of nowheresville, i heart it. granted, some of the furniture strikes me as way too jetsons-esque, but i cannot get past the idea that you can buy glasses for fifty cents a piece. thats cheaper than goodwill and its brand new. i don't love the idea of yet another block of cement taking up space in the wilderness, but i guess my 'hippie at heart' nature can deal when it comes to cool, cheap furniture. no more bob's discount pit for me. we're moving up in the world.