Today's story starts with what happened overnight. RQS and I got to sleep late last night, and this would be a minor problem. Delivery was scheduled for some time between 8 am and noon, and I wanted to be sure to be ready for it.
Sometime in the middle of night, I had to get up for a bio-break. Somehow, I wasn't as sure on my feet as I should have been, and tripped in an interesting way. First, I started falling towards the far end of the bed, and then rebounding to the right until I was stopped by a bedroom chest. It was if I were drunk, and stumbled across the room. RQS was worried that I might have hurt myself (I did - a minor bruise on my ankle), and helped me get back on my feet.
After my bio-break, I was back in bed for a couple of hours, then got dressed to await my delivery. My ankle was hurting a little, and I knew that I couldn't lift the two boxes from the entry to my building to my apartment on my own. Luckily, the delivery men came at 10 am, and brought the two boxes into the apartment for me to assemble. And then, it was time for me to go back to sleep - until 2 pm.
I started work on the chest sometime after 4 pm, and it was slow going. Ikea's instructions are written without words. They only use diagrams to instruct the assembler what pieces to use for each step of the process. And this can be confusing, as not all of their illustrations are clear enough to use without test fitting the pieces together. I don't know if this is a deliberate part of the design process. But I feel that someone with more experience assembling Ikea furniture could have done this faster than I could. In fact, It wasn't until a little bit after 7 pm that I got the body of the chest put together.
Shortly after this, we took a break for dinner.Then I started up again around 8:30 pm, finishing around 10 pm. It was a long time taken to assemble the dresser, and I hope it does the job I want it to do for as long as I need it done. Is the chest perfect? No! I can't open it as fully as I could the old chest, for safety reasons. But it will hold much of the intimates in my female wardrobe, and that's what's important to me now.
PS: Tomorrow, I'll move the old chest to the trash area and move the new one to the now vacant space.
