Mini Meltdowns

Saturday, I had a meltdown. It is not something I do. I don't throw fits and I don't meltdown. However, Saturday was an exception. I flippen lost it...we woke up to ANTS...not just a few a whole fricken ant farm moved into our downstairs kitchen. What a mess. Hubs cleaned up most of the mess...ant carcasses and all. But they just would not die. The little buggers! I ended up cleaning up the second mess. Sorry no photos...given my frame of mind, grabbing a camera to mark the event was not gonna happen. The smell of the ant spray was making me cough (yes, I am sick again with some other virus given to me by my wonderful kindergartener) I have a sore throat and my ears hurt again...I freaked....I was slamming cupboard doors... one actually fell off and hit me in the head. At which point...I just went bonkers. Luckily, the boys were upstairs playing. Hubs came downstairs and was just dumbstruck.

Hubs: "How the hell did the cabinet door "just fall off" Christy?"

Me: "um, I dunno I slammed it and it fell."

Hubs: "Christy, a cabinet door does not just "fall off" you ripped it off."

NOTE: I really did not rip the door off...I seriously...slammed it and it fell. It was hanging by a nail, I swear.

I started laughing...then crying...then laughing...then sobbing...it was nuts.

Hubs is good. He just laughed the whole thing off. Told me to go shopping and he would clean up the mess. He also said that now would be good time to replace the kitchen. FINALLY! I have been waiting a long time to update our very outdated kitchen.

Saturdays events led us to IKEA. I have had a love affair with IKEA since the days of my living abroad in Hungary. About a year after I moved to Budapest, an IKEA store opened up. I had only ever heard of the store via catalogs and only because of my very fashionable and worldy, Aunt Susan who had introduced me to the brand back in the 80's.  It was so new, clean and fresh. If anyone has ever been to Budapest back in the 90's you will know that the city was pretty drab back then. There still was not much western influences. IKEA was like going home for an afternoon.

In any event, I have decided that our little beach condo needs an IKEA kitchen. So off hubs and I went to Palo Alto to go see what we could find. I have had an idea of what I want for the kitchen for awhile. I am always browsing in magazines, clipping what I like and what I think will work for our little 9 by 9 kitchen. I want bohemian, clean, lots of work space, open, chef's style, cottage kitchen. Does that make any sense? I want it to be the pulse of the house without it being boring, dull, cookie cutter or condo-ish. I found what I am looking for and we will place the order in March when they have the their huge kitchen sale event. Well, that is all for now...nothing too thought provoking or deep...mama just needs a new kitchen!