Desk badassedness!

NOTE: Please forgive the horrid formatting in this post...Blogger is screwing up picture placement and spacing and I can't fix it...So, like that last post that had random words in it...Just ignore...SIGGHHH... On with the story....


Not only did I single-handedly carry the 12-ton boxes up the stairs, I also put together my new Ikea computer desk all by my little self...With no cussing and only a few WTF?'s (that doesn't count since it's a question and not a curse). 

 
Destruction Construction calls for music. Pandora Internet Radio set to John Tesh or Yanni works well to keep the nerves soothed. Are you laughing at John Tesh? Shame on you. He is a good Christian man...And he gives free healthy lifestyle tips on STAR 93.3! 
  
Um...Looks like I already violated rule number one...The guy in that picture is obviously not a badass if he has to have a friend help him carry the boxes! 
 
Dinah shows how she matches the Birch Effect color scheme of the desk. She doesn't care about much else except how beautiful and royal she is.  
 

   
Calpurnia oversees the hardware division....I'm not sure this is a good plan... 
  
  
 Not bad for 45 minutes of work. Trying to decipher which boards I need from the pictures in the directions (there are no words) was a challenge at times. 
Dinah was the first to cave. She started playing hockey with the bolts and nails. She was banished from the work zone.


This was a PITA...I couldn't twist these far enough to go into the boards. They weren't flat-head and they weren't Phillips...WTF?!


 Wellll...What is this? 


Oh look! It makes a turny-thing! Now I can get the hardware into the board with ease! How fun...I am keeping this tool.



 I made a drawer! 

 Good place to stop for now...Time to go party...And then sleep...And then have group and then nap and then go to church...

And then have dinner...This is my bro Dan's plate of oyster crackers that he decorated with hot sauce...He's so creative.

 OK, back at it late in the night. It's all done...Except....

 WTF??? Where does this go?? Something isn't fully screwed in!

 Nooooooooooo! 
Maybe I'm not such a badass...
Well...As John Bender says - 
"Screws fall out all the time. The world is an imperfect place..."
 
Sooo...

Here's hoping it doesn't collapse! Also note that I transferred all the computer equipment from the old desk onto the new one without having to turn off or unplug anything! SCORE! 

Comments

Kelly said…
LOL! That was quite amusing to me this morning as we start school! You are a badass!!!! Looks great, aren't you so proud?
11:46 AM
Helen Ann said…
I am proud! :) I can build things! :)
11:11 PM
Jim Swartwout said…
It is truly a monument to ingenuity and perseverance. Not to mention fortitude for having the strength to ban cats from the workplace - - what can we learn from this?
PS - - keep the renegade screw around in case you figure out where it goes - - and there's no need to keep the twisty, allen-wrench thing - it only fits Swedish furniture
3:15 PM
Helen Ann said…
Thanks, Jim! I learned never to allow cats to help build furniture even if they give me big doe eyes, purr at me.
2:41 AM
melanie said…
What? Was there a desk in that blog?
I only noticed cats.
Big, beautiful cats!
10:29 PM
Specifically Speaking said…
Hi Helen Ann--I found your blog through my cousin in-law, Melanie's blog. Just surfing around and had to laugh at your comment how WTF isn't a curse--it's a question. OMG--I laughed so hard because I find myself saying that all the time!
6:18 PM
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