Two big burly Albanians, great fans of our local soccer team, delivered the bed in its’ 4 boxes, yesterday afternoon.  (They had just delivered a houseful of furniture to one of the players new home and were very excited.)  It took two hours to assemble the bed.  During that time I also managed to make a pot of chili, throw in some laundry, and do some cleaning.  This was due to the fact that there were many pauses when GP had to take something off that he’d just put on, ponder what the problem was, and remount the part again.  As there was much swearing and huffing during these periods I thought it best to busy myself elsewhere.  In the long run though, it didn't prove to be half as bad as the first time around.  Nothing broke, nobody was injured, and we slept on the bed last night.  Oh the luxury!  But this being IKEA, it couldn't go off without a hitch of course.  We had ordered the bed in the color “sand” and they delivered the color “dark grey”.  Evidently they failed to tell us at the time of purchase that they had discontinued that color.  We had three options.  1. We could call IKEA and they would send back the Albanians to pick up the boxes and we’d get our money back.  But then we’d be left without a bed, we’d have to go elsewhere to buy one and we still had the issue of the vouchers.   2.  We could send it back and hope that somewhere in their back stocks they’d find a “sand” cover for us.  This seemed unlikely.  3.  We stuck with “dark grey” and screw the color scheme.  This is what we decided would be the most sage decision though it does rub my aesthetic sensibilities the wrong way!  So let’s try this once more.  I’m never buying furniture from IKEA again!!  Maybe this time it’ll stick.  Xxoo me