The Ramblings of a Disorientated Mind

I love Ikea, don’t get me wrong. I think the whole premiss behind it is fantastic, and I love going and wandering around the show rooms and imagining the vast possibilities and How I Can Make Them Work For Me™.

Now, Dark and I have needed a media storage solution for… well, since we moved out of home 3 years ago. Between us we’ve got over 600 books, 200 music CDs, probably about the same for DVDs and console games, and too many media CDs to count. Back last summer we contacted a guy to make us a bespoke media solution, but that hasn’t panned out so we decided, in our apparent naivety, that we’d use an Ikea solution.

Oh dear gods was that a mistake. I have spent the better part of today, armed with pencil, ruler and graph paper trying to make us a solution. My head is numb from the sheer mind blowing number of possible combinations that we can fit on the one wall I was concentrating. Please remember this isn’t counting the rest of the room. I feel like gibbering in a corner somewhere.

But you know what the best part is? I’m not finished!!!! So I get to do this all over again tomorrow!!!!

Oh, and my ruler isn’t straight.

Guh *headdesk*