Growing Up Is Hard To Do

After a long day today, I sat down on my bed. It collapsed. Not completely, but my mattress sank into my frame and I just laughed. No, I did not incorrectly build my bed or jump on it. Rather, the material holding the wooden slats together snapped because the staple that IKEA had put in and was holding it wasn't secure. So with the help of my roommate holding up my mattress, I hammered the material back into the slat so it was taut again and would hold my mattress.

That anecdoate pretty much sums up how my whole day has been. This morning I was so excited to go to IKEA, the happiest place on earth. As we were going through the showroom picking out larger pieces of furniture for our apartment, I was very happy. I was even happier as we went through the marketplace and picked up great deals, like a $5 wok and set of great knives for $2. Yet, as we went to go pick up the boxes of furniture that we picked out upstairs, we realized that so much of it was not there and that things were mislabled or put in the wrong place. It was a somewhat frustrating experience, ultimately resulting in Chandana rolling around on the floor of IKEA because they didn't have our futon mattress (you had to be there.) Doing this whole "grown-up" thing of picking out your own furniture and trying to buy it is a lot harder than it seems, especially when you don't have your own car.

In the end, we did what we could. While we weren't able to ship all of our furniture back, we just laughed at the whole situation and sent what we could. Our round trip probably was about 3 hours of total travelling by metro and bus and it was quite the adventure. I know that buying new furniture off of my parent's dime isn't really roughing it at all, but it is a challenge to me. Lucky enough, I like challenges. For the first time, I'm not a quick drive home to have my parents do things for me. Can't have them get my furniture, fix my bed, or give me food. Trying to be an adult now...even if I'll run like a scared little girl when I see a bug and have to get my roommate to kill the moth in my room.