yesterday and today (double feature free time)

tess has been takingsome time off her studying and we used this off time to fill our extreme shopping experience deprivation, i think niether of us ever did this kind of thing before, defenitly not for so long. these past 2 days have seen endless amounts of department stores, malls, discount stores, and house stuff stores. on one hand this is a nice opprotunity to actualy build a house from the bottom up, the way we always might have thought we wanted to, kinda remenicent of mahos rennovation scheme. on the other hand this is torture. at the end i have some what of a new perspective on this whole thing. i have a better vision of how i want my home to look like, almost like an ikea catalouge but with little to no ikea things in it. both of us are no on track towards actualy getting real thing for a real house, not a temporary one like where both of us were living untill now for the past 3 years or so. temporary meant not buying house things, not investing in how they look or how they will be used. so now we are following this line and after realising that this is what we both want (mostly matt black clean cut stuff) its made it much easier to choose between things and styles. there is a million of everything, and one day when i am grown up and we will have a real house with a real kitchen it will have all those things i want, and i know what they look like, along with a garage that will have a fill craftsman tool box on wheels.

yesterday we bought a bed. this is the first time i ever bought, after sleeping on hand me downs and feebees for ever. so not that it was exciting as much as it was fun to choose. also we checked out about 50 diffranet matresses before choosing so this was kinda the real thing. after that we let loose a bit but still had to check everything 5 times just in case it was cheaper or better at another place then sometimes ending up buying the more expensinveless good thing at a place just because we were so tierd of looking at it. we spent most of yesterday and today doing exactly the same thing. the last place we went to was IKEA where we instantly found almost everything we were looking for and at peice we could afford. i dont know if this was because this was the last place and we had given up on many other things and places, or one of these:

1: ikea makes things we like

2: we have been nurtured to like what ikea makes.

tess says its probably both of them combined. i thought this is an interesting question. not like the fight club kinda interesting but more like the what kind of music they play at restaurants to suite the most prominent client base and how that changes over time. when you consider that, think about all the old poeple who shop at ikea and all the young poeple who walk in to awfull american furniture stores that sell fluff and kitch by the ton. also think about how poeple perceive sweeden as beeing a dull place and america as exiting and full of opportunity.

after that i thought about the fact that a new imacon costs more then a new Toyota Camry, the best car in the world (or a honda accord for that matter). i tried to think about what that says about the imacon, or what it says about the camry as far as cost and production and so on. makes you wonder.

an imacon is small and complex and has lots of technology, but a toyota camery most likely has much much more.