crazy ikea trip and failed dinner

So today Joe and I decided to take a little trip to Ikea after work... since living in our new home, I have decided to get a few new things to make the place feel more like our own.  We have had this chair from Ikea for almost three years (since we got married), and it has seen better days!! So we got a lovely new cover for it in red, and now its good as new!! Hurray.  We also got some new window treatments... all in all, I believe I was much more enthused about the trip than the hubby was...but he sucked it up and still drove me there and back... I am grateful.

Oh we also got a new bed skirt...I had a little mishap with our last one before moving.  I decided I would be a good little cleaner and wash my bedskirt before we moved so by the time we got to the new place I could just throw on my nice clean skirt... well despite what the directions on the bedskirt said... after placing it in the dryer, the polyester in the platform portion of the skirt melted thus rendering the bed skirt useless!  Wah wah... So now we have a new one and it is 100% cotton!  Woo hoo!!

We also got these little lovelies for our windows.. hurray and hurray!  Now to get it all put together!!

After Ikea I came home and decided to make this orange chicken stuff that we had picked up at the grocery store.  Its one of those things that you like stir fry and add sauce, make your rice and you're good to go... or so I thought.  I spent 40 minutes... yes you read that right...just trying to make my stinkin' rice!! I finally gave up on regular rice and used "boil in the bag" rice...  craziness...and then the food ended up being kinda bland...so we added siracha sauce.... all in all it was an epic fail!!  My rice ended up looking much more like oatmeal or grits...oh well.  Next time I cook I'm sure it will be MUCH better :o) Live and learn... I think I need a rice cooker!  What a day!