Home Improvement and Aging
I am a newlywed and still very much love my husband, I want to make that clear. I think, however, his evil twin, who incidentally only revealed himself recently, should be banished from my home... but quick! There just isn't room for the four of us (the dog too)!
Let me explain by saying my husband was never really taken under the wing of his dad and shown many basic tinkering skills... what he's learned has been self-taught. Much like myself, whose mom wasn't much of a cook and I had to learn through trial and error... LOTS of error. I am so proud that my hubbie makes the effort and he has taught himself a great deal. Recently, he's been able to enlist the help of his dad and it has been wonderful to watch their mutual underlying admiration and appreciation for each other unfold. It has meant the creation of a huge improvement to our home in the form of a deck connecting our pool to our house. It's simply beautiful! But it's created a monster!
Now when asked to come out and give my opinion about something involving wood outside of the house, a spewing beast meets me whom I'm convinced at our next connection will spin his head around and spit green goo at me! Who is this person and what did you do with my sweet man?!
Suffice it to say, the dog and Bob the Builder can hang out in the back yard without me... (It seems weird that the trigger for the "beast" seems to relate to power tools) If my very new marriage is to stand the test of time... and if I don't want to enlist the help of a freaky priest who will surely cast out this devil, I'll just keep my distance... while the home improvement is carried out. A small obstacle... I will agree ..but you have to tackle the small ones before the big ones get easier!
AND
To the two ladies at Zellers who gave me the "senior's discount" the other day. I think you thought you were being nice by offering the discount on "Senior's Day" to someone who is almost two decades away from collecting, and I think you both saw the bewilderment in my face when you told me you were giving me the discount and thought, "Uh oh, she thinks we're insulting her!". To you, my lovely ladies I say, "Thank you" for you made me realize a couple of things. 1) It may be time for the long overdue dye job I keep putting off. 2) I am far cheaper than I realize because I happily took the discount and said NOTHING to the contrary and 3) Obviously it didn't bother me THAT much because when I went home and my husband told me how beautiful I looked without prompting (maybe leftovers from the Bob the Builder conversation), I actually believed him, discount or not.
We are only what we believe we can be and I believe in greatness, around me and in me!
Let me explain by saying my husband was never really taken under the wing of his dad and shown many basic tinkering skills... what he's learned has been self-taught. Much like myself, whose mom wasn't much of a cook and I had to learn through trial and error... LOTS of error. I am so proud that my hubbie makes the effort and he has taught himself a great deal. Recently, he's been able to enlist the help of his dad and it has been wonderful to watch their mutual underlying admiration and appreciation for each other unfold. It has meant the creation of a huge improvement to our home in the form of a deck connecting our pool to our house. It's simply beautiful! But it's created a monster!
Now when asked to come out and give my opinion about something involving wood outside of the house, a spewing beast meets me whom I'm convinced at our next connection will spin his head around and spit green goo at me! Who is this person and what did you do with my sweet man?!
Suffice it to say, the dog and Bob the Builder can hang out in the back yard without me... (It seems weird that the trigger for the "beast" seems to relate to power tools) If my very new marriage is to stand the test of time... and if I don't want to enlist the help of a freaky priest who will surely cast out this devil, I'll just keep my distance... while the home improvement is carried out. A small obstacle... I will agree ..but you have to tackle the small ones before the big ones get easier!
AND
To the two ladies at Zellers who gave me the "senior's discount" the other day. I think you thought you were being nice by offering the discount on "Senior's Day" to someone who is almost two decades away from collecting, and I think you both saw the bewilderment in my face when you told me you were giving me the discount and thought, "Uh oh, she thinks we're insulting her!". To you, my lovely ladies I say, "Thank you" for you made me realize a couple of things. 1) It may be time for the long overdue dye job I keep putting off. 2) I am far cheaper than I realize because I happily took the discount and said NOTHING to the contrary and 3) Obviously it didn't bother me THAT much because when I went home and my husband told me how beautiful I looked without prompting (maybe leftovers from the Bob the Builder conversation), I actually believed him, discount or not.
We are only what we believe we can be and I believe in greatness, around me and in me!
