Appointments followed by Ikea

I'm feeling strange today. Not quite happy, not quite sad.

I was in a mood this morning, everything seemed to piss me off. I think tonight I'm going to clean the house as cleaning usually always makes me feel better at home. We also have to go food shopping - but I can't do both in one night so I'll have to choose - which I wont do until I get home. I had very little time to clean this weekend as I spent Saturday with my sister and at a baby shower and Sunday at my parents house.

I took yesterday off from work in order to go to the eye doctor & to the dentist. My prescription has changed in my glasses but not my contacts, and so I bought new glasses which I should have in about a week. They dilated my eyes - which is always fun. I couldn't read anything that wasn't at least two feet away which made reading my wrist watch or using my phone impossible. Also, I have big pupils to begin with so when I'm dilated I'm a verifiable freak show. I kept my sunglasses on, despite the strange looks from everyone. I had my teeth cleaned and he found two small "soft spots" which he said would quickly develop into cavities so I have to have them attended to. Apparently, he told me about one at my last check up and assumed I just ignored him (I didn't, honest!) and so he stuck his camera in my mouth to show me my developing cavities. I know that it was supposed to scare me into make my appointments (I didn't need scaring - I would have done it anyhow) to get the work done but all it did was fascinate me :)

After the eye doctor and the dentist, I had the rest of the afternoon off so my sister and I went to Ikea! I had a lot of fun, and my nephew was such a good boy. I was getting really irritated with this small family that was following us around (you just follow the crowd when you're at Ikea - keeps the flow of traffic moving!) because the youngest boy was old enough not to be acting as he was and the parents were seemingly oblivious. I understand that there's a point where you just have to let kids throw their tantrums to make them understand they can't get what they want - but please for the love of God don't do it in large warehouse store that echoes and subject everyone within screaming radius to your misbehaving child. Take them outside - let the sound of traffic drown them out. Again, my nephew was acting so well I was beaming with happiness - plus he was clinging to me all day and I felt very loved :) While at Ikea I found some inexpensive prints that had the color makeup of our living room - so I bought the three pack and then bought frames to go with them. Ever since talking with both Jen and gunderson bee about my lack of decor and wall art in particular - I was happy to try anything. The prints in the frames look so, so, so good that I'm inspired to get more :)

Today's Tuesday even though it feels like Monday - which is nice.