Monday, June 28, 2004
Isnt IKEA lovely?
Just returned some stuff to IKEA today... Bought 1 wardrobe too many for the new house and well can I say they are fantastic!!! So easy, and passing the time of day as the lady credited my card with the money I'd spend mentioned I'd left something behind after paying for it, entirely my own fault blah blah and she said "go see the info desk - it may have been handed in and you can have it back" 10 minutes of Info desk man faffing around and he decides "well we can't trace it but you're clearly not trying it on so we'll give you the item anyway, it's not in stock right now so we will ring you when it is" How cool is that! I was just going to go buy another one anyway. Whilst waiting I browsed the catalogue and found the perfect addition to my own home furnishings that I didn't even know I needed of course so it makes excellent business sense but that is besides the point. Makes such a change from the usual "we've had your money we'll now be as obstructive as we can about your attempts to make a return" attitude most companies come up with in my experience.
Sadly have yet to find tenants for the new house, it's so lovely as well - if only I could live there (how I'd fill a 4 bed semi in Horsforth, Leeds for I do not know). More weeks of adverts then, eating away at the finances. time to find alternative advertising too I guess.
Risk assessment day at work is looming - I am so looking forward to Thursday when I can do some "real" work again. Funny how some vital bits of work stop being "real" work when you see the regular dull stuff mounting up again. You'd think that the different from the norm stuff would always be welcomed with open arms wouldn't you?
Finally found the theme in my choice of men. You know how some people go for a certain look, a certain attitude, a certain career, or maybe hair colour, personality trait what ever. I have finally found the common thread. A deep rooted desire to have a blue/purple victorian style gentleman's study decor in the key room the bloke spends his time in. Helping the man decorate his office this weekend and compare the paint stains on my shoe to the radiator in my living room (which for the last 4 years I haven't got around to repainting after decorating the living room when the chap I lived with once moved out) and lo and behold it's exactly the same colour. Now given my track record as serial monogamist this is only 2 of several men but thinking about it most of the men I have associated have had a tendancy to favour blues and purples in the colours of their lives. The colour therapist in me says it'll be the thinking person I go for (dark blue) or perhaps a (usually unacknowledged) spiritual side (the purple) or perhaps they have a need to protect themselves (purple). the pragmatist says "chuff that don't all men who have little interest in style etc always like dark blue because it's easy?" to which I'm inclined to say "or is it just the men you have shared your life with..."
Sadly have yet to find tenants for the new house, it's so lovely as well - if only I could live there (how I'd fill a 4 bed semi in Horsforth, Leeds for I do not know). More weeks of adverts then, eating away at the finances. time to find alternative advertising too I guess.
Risk assessment day at work is looming - I am so looking forward to Thursday when I can do some "real" work again. Funny how some vital bits of work stop being "real" work when you see the regular dull stuff mounting up again. You'd think that the different from the norm stuff would always be welcomed with open arms wouldn't you?
Finally found the theme in my choice of men. You know how some people go for a certain look, a certain attitude, a certain career, or maybe hair colour, personality trait what ever. I have finally found the common thread. A deep rooted desire to have a blue/purple victorian style gentleman's study decor in the key room the bloke spends his time in. Helping the man decorate his office this weekend and compare the paint stains on my shoe to the radiator in my living room (which for the last 4 years I haven't got around to repainting after decorating the living room when the chap I lived with once moved out) and lo and behold it's exactly the same colour. Now given my track record as serial monogamist this is only 2 of several men but thinking about it most of the men I have associated have had a tendancy to favour blues and purples in the colours of their lives. The colour therapist in me says it'll be the thinking person I go for (dark blue) or perhaps a (usually unacknowledged) spiritual side (the purple) or perhaps they have a need to protect themselves (purple). the pragmatist says "chuff that don't all men who have little interest in style etc always like dark blue because it's easy?" to which I'm inclined to say "or is it just the men you have shared your life with..."
// posted by Bitvacuous @ 11:02 pm 
