Comments on: A nonsensical post about IKEA and candles and hung meat http://icelandweatherreport.com/2009/12/a-nonsensical-post-about-ikea-and-candles-and-hung-meat.html Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:07:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vikingisson http://icelandweatherreport.com/2009/12/a-nonsensical-post-about-ikea-and-candles-and-hung-meat.html/comment-page-1#comment-11419 Vikingisson Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:43:58 +0000 http://icelandweatherreport.com/?p=2917#comment-11419 LOL, I was just now planning a trip over to Ikea in Toronto. I've been avoiding it but I've exhausted all my other choices and I'm tired of walking out of places empty handed because of poor selection and horrible service. Almost a guilty pleasure because there's nothing wrong with the place except the drive and the temptation to buy things I didn't plan for. So the layout elsewhere is similar? LOL, those circles take some getting used to. You can pop in and find what you want straight away and then are supposed to walk 1KM around the store just to get out. You learn which doors that say "do not enter" are perfectly good shortcuts. The cafeteria is the best deal around. $1 for breakfast or $2 to splurge on a fancier one is a hilariously good deal. And the coffee isn't bad either. LOL, I was just now planning a trip over to Ikea in Toronto. I’ve been avoiding it but I’ve exhausted all my other choices and I’m tired of walking out of places empty handed because of poor selection and horrible service. Almost a guilty pleasure because there’s nothing wrong with the place except the drive and the temptation to buy things I didn’t plan for.
So the layout elsewhere is similar? LOL, those circles take some getting used to. You can pop in and find what you want straight away and then are supposed to walk 1KM around the store just to get out. You learn which doors that say “do not enter” are perfectly good shortcuts.
The cafeteria is the best deal around. $1 for breakfast or $2 to splurge on a fancier one is a hilariously good deal. And the coffee isn’t bad either.

]]> By: Dora http://icelandweatherreport.com/2009/12/a-nonsensical-post-about-ikea-and-candles-and-hung-meat.html/comment-page-1#comment-11351 Dora Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:15:32 +0000 http://icelandweatherreport.com/?p=2917#comment-11351 Hi Alda! I've been reading your blog since i started preparations to my first visit to Iceland, what occurred last July. I fell IN LOVE by your country and people, and i adopted your "Niceland" at once!!! i thougth that this was my link to niceland, but really now we are bonding :-): Ikea, Stig Larsson....globalization as its ways...thanx so much...Dora, Portugal. Hi Alda! I’ve been reading your blog since i started preparations to my first visit to Iceland, what occurred last July. I fell IN LOVE by your country and people, and i adopted your “Niceland” at once!!!
i thougth that this was my link to niceland, but really now we are bonding :-) : Ikea, Stig Larsson….globalization as its ways…thanx so much…Dora, Portugal.

]]> By: Annie http://icelandweatherreport.com/2009/12/a-nonsensical-post-about-ikea-and-candles-and-hung-meat.html/comment-page-1#comment-11324 Annie Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:26:01 +0000 http://icelandweatherreport.com/?p=2917#comment-11324 Um, I seem to have read the weather report on the wrong day. Yes, it was kinda rubbish yesterday. Sozzles. Um, I seem to have read the weather report on the wrong day. Yes, it was kinda rubbish yesterday. Sozzles.

]]> By: Annie http://icelandweatherreport.com/2009/12/a-nonsensical-post-about-ikea-and-candles-and-hung-meat.html/comment-page-1#comment-11323 Annie Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:24:46 +0000 http://icelandweatherreport.com/?p=2917#comment-11323 The weather?! The weather is AMAZING! I can't believe how dry and calm and crisp it is. We spent the day at the pool in the sunshine. Am so happy to be back. The weather?! The weather is AMAZING! I can’t believe how dry and calm and crisp it is. We spent the day at the pool in the sunshine.

Am so happy to be back.

]]> By: alda http://icelandweatherreport.com/2009/12/a-nonsensical-post-about-ikea-and-candles-and-hung-meat.html/comment-page-1#comment-11320 alda Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:45:21 +0000 http://icelandweatherreport.com/?p=2917#comment-11320 Thank you, everyone! I find it so amusing how many of you comment on the light-hearted nature of this post, because seriously, this is what ALL my posts used to be like (or, well, 95% of them). But of course that was before ALL THE EVIL HAPPENED.* * those of you who read Stieg Larsson in English translation will get the reference. ;) Thank you, everyone!

I find it so amusing how many of you comment on the light-hearted nature of this post, because seriously, this is what ALL my posts used to be like (or, well, 95% of them). But of course that was before ALL THE EVIL HAPPENED.*

* those of you who read Stieg Larsson in English translation will get the reference. ;)

]]> By: TMCD http://icelandweatherreport.com/2009/12/a-nonsensical-post-about-ikea-and-candles-and-hung-meat.html/comment-page-1#comment-11319 TMCD Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:19:39 +0000 http://icelandweatherreport.com/?p=2917#comment-11319 Alda, I appreciate your blog. Your writing ,humor and insight makes me laugh as well as inform me. I never knew that IKEA served food, so I went to the one in Burbanks Calf. Sadly, they do not serve smoked lamb. Had to make do with the meatballs. I left with my credit cards at home, lest, I run up a huge Xmas bill Bless, Bless Alda, I appreciate your blog.
Your writing ,humor and insight makes me laugh as well as inform me.

I never knew that IKEA served food, so I went to the one in Burbanks Calf.
Sadly, they do not serve smoked lamb.
Had to make do with the meatballs.
I left with my credit cards at home, lest, I run up a huge Xmas bill

Bless, Bless

]]> By: andrea http://icelandweatherreport.com/2009/12/a-nonsensical-post-about-ikea-and-candles-and-hung-meat.html/comment-page-1#comment-11316 andrea Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:41:54 +0000 http://icelandweatherreport.com/?p=2917#comment-11316 You just recounted my own experience with IKEA but I can one-up you. They sell a kind of shadow-box frame there that means I actually have to go there for REASONS OF BUSINESS too! To add insult to injury, there's one 15 minutes from my home and another one 20 minutes from my home. Be still my beating heart. You just recounted my own experience with IKEA but I can one-up you. They sell a kind of shadow-box frame there that means I actually have to go there for REASONS OF BUSINESS too! To add insult to injury, there’s one 15 minutes from my home and another one 20 minutes from my home. Be still my beating heart.

]]> By: mary http://icelandweatherreport.com/2009/12/a-nonsensical-post-about-ikea-and-candles-and-hung-meat.html/comment-page-1#comment-11315 mary Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:16:20 +0000 http://icelandweatherreport.com/?p=2917#comment-11315 I am not a great fan of Ikea, but then I don't like shopping. But I've had the experience of going into the basement and buying all kinds of stuff I didn't need, though the candles are great. I am not a great fan of Ikea, but then I don’t like shopping.
But I’ve had the experience of going into the basement and buying all kinds of stuff I didn’t need, though the candles are great.

]]> By: Ann http://icelandweatherreport.com/2009/12/a-nonsensical-post-about-ikea-and-candles-and-hung-meat.html/comment-page-1#comment-11314 Ann Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:40:08 +0000 http://icelandweatherreport.com/?p=2917#comment-11314 I haven't made any comments in a long time, but I just wanted to say again how much I enjoy your blog Alda, and how much I appreciate your writing and humor. Thank you! I haven’t made any comments in a long time, but I just wanted to say again how much I enjoy your blog Alda, and how much I appreciate your writing and humor. Thank you!

]]> By: Alexander E. http://icelandweatherreport.com/2009/12/a-nonsensical-post-about-ikea-and-candles-and-hung-meat.html/comment-page-1#comment-11312 Alexander E. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:25:58 +0000 http://icelandweatherreport.com/?p=2917#comment-11312 <blockquote> Susan Prindle said: I have been enjoying your blog, from here in rainy, gray Portland OR.</blockquote> Susan. Check the weather here - to feel better (maybe). But Portland is beautiful town. So you have to prove it's gray! ;-) http://forums.icelandweatherreport.com/viewtopic.php?p=1229#p1229 PS. After reading comments I've started to think "Something wrong with me". All my attempts to buy anything at IKEA failed. We got only bed there (it was very bad and funny experience) and computer table (really good one - but they discontinued this model).

Susan Prindle said:

I have been enjoying your blog, from here in rainy, gray Portland OR.

Susan. Check the weather here – to feel better (maybe). But Portland is beautiful town. So you have to prove it’s gray! ;-)

http://forums.icelandweatherreport.com/viewtopic.php?p=1229#p1229

PS. After reading comments I’ve started to think “Something wrong with me”. All my attempts to buy anything at IKEA failed. We got only bed there (it was very bad and funny experience) and computer table (really good one – but they discontinued this model).

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