IKEA and Wine

IKEA (pronounced E-K-AH in Polish). Apparently, Polish people have no clue that there are other stores out there where you can buy similar products. Now that said, why was I there if I expected Polish people to go shop elsewhere?
Anyway, traffic to get there was horrible... a stupid roundabout that's being redone and renamed after the Tragedy in April. So, just getting to IKEA is ridiculous. Then, when you get there, 3 lans of traffic trying to get into the parking lot. did I happen to mention that IKEA is not fully finished apparently?!?! The building I see sprawling before me is only half done and it's massive enough already, so if they ever REALLY get it done, you could literally get lost in there for days.
That being said, I did get some good stuff. Spent around $70 and came out with 2 duvet cover sets (cheap ugly-ish ones mind you), a corkscrew, 2 lamps (which I pray are going to be bright enough for me to be able to keep the stupid overhead halogens off), light bulbs, a throw and a comforter. I picked up a comforter that I thought was the one I wanted and got to the cashier and sure enough, wrong one. Same thing basically, just a lower warmth rating and about twice as expensive as the one I THOUGHT I threw in my bag. Hopefully it'll all be alright. If I begin to freeze, I'll go back and buy the cheaper one to layer over the expensive one. Granted, for what I got, $70 isn't so bad. In an effort to be environmentally responsible, I bought one of the big blue plastic bags for about 60 cents... so now I have a huge blue IKEA bag. Which I've seen a ton of people with at school... maybe it's a good purchase after all.
Then, go to TESCO, the massive supermarket that's just like Wal-mart (sorry for this) only better! It's got loads more stuff, more variety and has a massive liquor store in it which has about as many kinds of Vodka as there are different millimeter marks on a meter stick (i.e. 1000 or something that like.) Then you turn around and glory of all glories, just as many bottles of wine. Wine from EVERYWHERE! I choose a nice semi-dry wine from Bulgaria (turns out to be very good choice) which costs me literally $3.33 and then a cheaper bottle which I will try, hopefully later this week (not any sooner lest I become a drunkard) which cost me about $2.00 and is from Spain. I have got a lot of wine tasting to do this year. I already know that Georgian wine and Bulgarian wine = GOOD STUFF.
So that's my day, ramble, ramble, ramble... And now cooking dinner. A pre-made, but not frozen Calzone, which could have any kind of thing in it and I honestly won't know til I cut the sucker open. Oh, and french fries.... What can I say. I love carbs!
Open house for parents tomorrow night. Wish me luck. Hopefully though won't see through my facade and say "You're just a kindergarten teacher... So you think you are smarter than a 5th grader?"