Made it to week's end!

Happy Friday to all and belated happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the U.S.. Now it's "Black Friday," the super-shopping day of the year for many. Less so here in Canada, though most retailers have gotten on board with the big American sale date. (Our huge sale date traditionally was/is Boxing Day, December 26th.)

Anyway, I took advantage of one of Ikea's sales and ordered a new TV bench at 15% off. A sufficient deal to make up for the shipping cost and it should be delivered next week. I've hummed and hawed over which one to order for many months now, so hope I'm not disappointed with my final decision. I have a few other things I'd like to order as well, but those will wait till their next "free shipping" date, which I hope will be Christmas.

Speaking of deliveries, I got the dining table I'd ordered from Wayfair.ca. (Still waiting on the chairs.)

Of course that's Nicki up on the box.

  

Derry checks things out.

 

Pros: It's very sturdy, easy to put the legs on, fits in my little dining "alcove" nicely, is a good price, and it's great to have a dining table that's a regular 29" height, not pub height.

Cons: It was shipped without extra packaging (from Titus Furniture), so really no protection from getting banged up. The underside of the table is marred and those cloth pulls you see in the above pics were stapled on. Removing the staples made a bit of a mess of the wood. There's also slight damage to one finished edge, which could have been avoided if they had shipped their product with better care. (I stated this in my review on Wayfair and also mentioned this to the customer service rep on the phone this morning, when I called to find out the scoop on the chairs.)

So 5 out of 5 for appearance, but minus points for shoddy shipping and lack of care with the product. I give it a 3.5 out of 5 overall. It's certainly not worth the $6oo+ Wayfair had as a regular price. It's not worth anywhere near that. I'm satisfied I paid a reasonable amount at less than $200, would not pay more.

Now I'll see how long it takes for the chairs to arrive! From the instructions I downloaded they look a little trickier to get together, but I'll do my best. This will be a warm-up to the Ikea TV bench assembly. Ha.

One of the Misters Squirrel yesterday afternoon.

 

 

As you can see, we do still have snow, though the rain is taking it away and it's just a grey, dirty mess now.

I was off Wednesday to take Nicki to the vet for his anal glands. That was fine, the only issue being that he'll need a dental within the next handful of months. I think I'll aim for February, when he's due to go back for his glands anyway.

I also was off Thursday with the cold that just won't go away. One of those bugs where you feel lousy for a few days, perk up, then feel crummy again, perk up...repeat as often as necessary. I blame the budget director, who came to work sick (for the entire week) a couple of weeks ago. A few of us since have succumbed. 

That's about the sum of the "excitement" here. 

Wishing everyone a lovely day and weekend....

Peace.