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Every weekend, thousands of looky-loos pour into the massive showroom to use the displays. Some hop into bed, slide under the covers and sneak a nap; others bring cameras and pose with the decor. Families while away the afternoon in the store for no other reason than to enjoy the air conditioning.

Visitors can’t seem to resist novelties most Americans take for granted, such as free soda refills and ample seating. They also like the laid-back staffers who don’t mind when a child jumps on a couch.

Yeah…and the pictures the guys took of the beds…really do look like they’ve been slept in. Eww..I wonder how often they have to change the sheets. That never happens in the IKEA here! More beds here. Edit: Pictures were taken down.

Shocking…

Ikea’s been having a sale for the past month and today I was looking for mattress covers. Mine is kind of old…and has some…err…blood stains that just didn’t wash out. Their covers are so cheap anyway, mine was $2.99 and it held up through washings for the past 4 years. So I went and they had a sale on the collection of bed covers that is one up from the cheapo collection I have. For 2 bucks more, I get 80 more thread count and a finer cotton. Score! They didn’t have the light pink I used to have…just a maroon color but that’s okay. Adds drama to my room right?

I also saw these cuuuute alligators! Alligator? Crocodile? Eh, I look it up and identify it, and then I always end up forgetting later on. Meh, I’m sure they don’t care what you call them as long as you won’t skin them. I like long stuffed animals for some reason. I feel like I can drag it around with me like Linus from peanuts. I also like it when animals drag stuff around with them, like dogs that get attached to their toy and carry it with them where-ever they go? Too cute.

Reminds me, my friend has a cute jack-russell terrier named Stitch and recently they got him a stuffed pizza to play with. He loves it so much he feels like he must go to sleep with it at night! Once I took the pizza away from him and hid it behind my back. When he rushed over to my back I kept hiding it on the opposite side of me. At one point, he looked at me with frantic eyes and whined at me! A weird sound for a good 5 seconds…like the kind a seal makes as if he was saying “hey you! I don’t want to joke around anymore! Where is it?!?” The skin above his eyes were all furrowed. Oh…how can torture be so cute?

I’ve been eyeing this canvas poster for a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery long time. It says it’s on sale…but that’s the same price I’ve always remembered it to be. It’s $79.99…a bit pricey for art on my small, bare walls. So instead, I took a picture and I am going to edit it for my purposes > <. It’s not like this artist drew it anyway…probably chopped it from the production poster. My results in the following post about it.