How you know when you are out of shape

Eric and I went to Ikea on Saturday and got a few more key pieces of furniture to fill out our new joint.

I think we all know how assembly-intensive these items can be. As I once joked in my days (day?) of doing standup comedy, "when you buy a rug from Ikea, they give you a sheep and a loom."

We split up the assembly for the two pieces which required the most significant amount of assembly: a bed frame and a 5-drawer dresser.

Two hours later our furniture was built and we were exhausted.

The next day we were both sore.

That's right - we were sore from assembling Ikea furniture. Which is ridiculous. But it does suggest that Eric's idea about creating an Ikea Olympics, where contestants race to assemble apartments full of Ikea furniture, might have more merit fitness-wise than we originally thought.