If you must go to Ikea, do so at 4pm on a saturday. The lack of people, screamers and chaos might actually make for a borderline (dare I say it?) pleasant experience. This may mean hell has frozen over..

Regardless, mission accomplished. The bookshelves will arrive one week from today and more photo frames were purchased for our photo wall. Sadly though, it seems 8×10 (or even the metric conversion) are not universal. thus still I need some frames. Who can I bat my eyelashes at and promise souvenirs?