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SO. R and I went to Ikea yesterday. Watching him yell about paying tolls on the way to Schaumberg was particularly entertaining.

We had a really good time, but most of the pleasure of hanging out with R is that he lives a life I wouldn't believe if I didn't know how incapable he generally is of lying (and certainly at this point, incapable of lying to me).

Apparently a few months ago he was dating a woman who was big into submission, but I can tell from our discussion of it (which was hilarious and horrifying by turns) that she did not prepare him to be dominant with her as well as a kinky person should prepare a vanilla person for that kind of activity. He was not ready for ropes.

He's feeling kind of beat up by relationships lately, I think. After his brief journey into kink, he was dating a girl from out of town who broke up with him after they were starting to get pretty serious and she realized she wanted a boyfriend-on-demand and he wanted an actual full-time relationship. He's not bouncing back as fast as he usually does.

We had a great time at Ikea though. I picked out my new bed, which I'm going to buy probably this week sometime and have delivered. R walked into Ikea and the very first thing we saw were $2 broom-and-dustpan combo sets, and he bought one of those. Then, as we were leaving, he saw a rug, so he bought that. He literally bought the first and last things we saw. Inbetween, we ate our body weight in vague Swedish fusion food at the cafeteria, and I got a birthday carrot-cake cupcake that was easily 30% frosting, so it's all good.

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[riari.livejournal.com]

One day I'll go back to Ikea and get one of their cinnamon rolls. Got it once and it lives on in legend. :)

Hopefully R will find someone who wants a full time relationship at some point.

Also, carrot cake cupcakes are awesome. :D

[mq-musings.livejournal.com]

Happy Sam Day!! Hopefully the cupcake is not the end of the celebration. :)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It was the bulk of it but it was SUCH a good cupcake I don't care, it was perfect :D

[illian.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor R. Although I'm just giggling at the "He was not ready for ropes." part for some reason.

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

Ikea is its own little world. I could easily believe in a Borrower-style culture of little people who live there inside the divider walls in their own narrow townhouses furnished in miniature Danish Modern, wearing clothing ornamented with strange, abstract flower patterns in brilliant colors and eating salmon-dill paste sandwiches on rye crispbread every day.

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

You probably already know this, but just in case: once you've assembled your Ikea bed and slept on it a few weeks, you should take off the mattress and slats, realign the parts and tighten up all the screws again. After that, at least in my experience, this may have to be done again every couple of years or so.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Interesting -- I haven't done it a few weeks after, but about once a year I did re-tighten everything :D