baby, what's in that satchel?

when the hell did ikea furniture become so complicated?! back in the old days they gave you an allen key and a whole bunch of screws and all you had to do was put it together.

now it's nails and screws, so don't forget your hammer and two types of screwdrivers and pencil, because the process of assembling your ikea furniture has just gotten that much more involved! and incidentally, why do those nails bend so easily?! my success rate at hammering nails in straight was about 50% =( which increased to about 75% after i got the hang of it. luckily ikea's still pretty idiot-proof in that they have plenty of allowance space on either side of the drawers so they still slide in and out even though the nails are poking out a bit.

o ikea, we used to have such an easy relationship and now you've gone and added a whole new level of complexity to it.

and now a lizard's just fallen on my arm. it was black and sticky and so very disgusting. my day is complete.