Did you ever feel like you were falling behind on your friends list?

(This week's Weltschmerz, a Canadian satirical strip found in many weekly alternative newspapers.)

Yay for last-minute rental cars!

Just got a car for not too much from Avis National.

IKEA, by Jonathan Coulton

*ahem* Mee-mee-mee-meeeeeee.

Long ago in days of yore
It all began with a god named Thor
There were Vikings and boats
And some plans for a furniture store
It’s not a bodega, it’s not a mall
And they sell things for apartments smaller than mine
As if there were apartments smaller than mine

Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of Norsemen
Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced men
Everyone has a home
But if you don’t have a home you can buy one there

So rent a car or take the bus
Lay your cash down and put your trust
In the land where the furniture folds to a much smaller size
Billy the bookcase says hello
And so does a table whose name is Ingo
And the chair is a ladder-back birch but his friends call him Karl

Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of Norsemen
Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced men
Everyone has a home
But if you don’t have a home you can buy one there

Ikea: plywood, brushed steel
Ikea: meatballs, tasty
Ikea: Allen wrenches
All of them for free
All of them for me

I’m sorry I said Ikea sucks
I just bought a table for 60 bucks
And a chair and a lamp
And a shelf and some candles for you
I was a doubter just like you
Till I saw the American dream come true
In New Jersey, they got a goddamned Swedish parade

Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of Norsemen
Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced men
Everyone has a home
But if you don’t have a home you can buy one there

An evening full of events. Eventful, you might say.

• Groceries. I hate grocery shopping on Saturdays, it's for chumps. But we still do it once in a while. Reminds us why we shouldn't.
  
  
• Vet for advice. Lucky's getting some blood work tomorrow, and he is not going to be pleased.
  
  
• PetSmart for our standard expensive science diet cat food. Saw six cats in their adoption centre that ranged from very sleepy to very cute, all able to eat dry food, and none throwing up. Did not adopt any of them.
  
  
• Bought new storage devices at Ikea. One is called SONNE, and one is called ALVE. Also picked up some SUMMERA and PROPP, needless to say.
  
  
• Chicken Fajitas at the busiest McDonald's in the world. Except they were cold. I took them back, and got them up to somewhere between warm and hot. Plus we were not given salsa. Stood in line a third time to get that. Perhaps there's a lesson to be learned here?