Tuesday - Burning Down the House
Jan. 31st, 2006 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninanevermoreToday on my drive into work, I was thinking about my house and the resolution I inadvertently made this year in regard to it.
I don't make New Year's resolutions, because they have never worked for me. The last official New Years Resolution I made was about 10 years ago when I resolved never to again make a New Years Resolution. But it occurred to me this morning that when you make a statement that by next New Years Day something had better change or you will do something drastic, that you have, in fact, made a New Year's resolution. So after a decade I have broken the only resolution I had ever had any luck keeping for any length of time.
Rats.
On New Years Day, I was looking around at my house and all of the half-started and need-to-start projects in it, from the old wallpaper that we still needs to be finish removing from the dining area to the bedroom dresser and armoire that are still in the living room because we still have to finish the work in the master bedroom.
"If this house still looks like this next New Years," I told my husband in my calmest, most reasonable tone, "I am going to burn it down."
Jeff glanced over at me and then glanced around the living room. He looked worried.
"OK," he said, "We'll get to work on it."
"I'm not kidding," I told him, just in case he had any doubts.
"I know you're not," he said, "Where do you propose we live after you burn down the house?"
I shrugged my shoulders. I hadn't planned that far ahead.
"Just make sure none of us are in it when you do," he said.
"I will," I said, and I gave him a kiss.
"Thank you," he said, and he hugged me.
It is good to have an understanding spouse who accepts your peculiarities. I'm a lucky girl, indeed.
I don't make New Year's resolutions, because they have never worked for me. The last official New Years Resolution I made was about 10 years ago when I resolved never to again make a New Years Resolution. But it occurred to me this morning that when you make a statement that by next New Years Day something had better change or you will do something drastic, that you have, in fact, made a New Year's resolution. So after a decade I have broken the only resolution I had ever had any luck keeping for any length of time.
Rats.
On New Years Day, I was looking around at my house and all of the half-started and need-to-start projects in it, from the old wallpaper that we still needs to be finish removing from the dining area to the bedroom dresser and armoire that are still in the living room because we still have to finish the work in the master bedroom.
"If this house still looks like this next New Years," I told my husband in my calmest, most reasonable tone, "I am going to burn it down."
Jeff glanced over at me and then glanced around the living room. He looked worried.
"OK," he said, "We'll get to work on it."
"I'm not kidding," I told him, just in case he had any doubts.
"I know you're not," he said, "Where do you propose we live after you burn down the house?"
I shrugged my shoulders. I hadn't planned that far ahead.
"Just make sure none of us are in it when you do," he said.
"I will," I said, and I gave him a kiss.
"Thank you," he said, and he hugged me.
It is good to have an understanding spouse who accepts your peculiarities. I'm a lucky girl, indeed.
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Date: 2006-01-31 08:31 pm (UTC)Just a thought.
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Date: 2006-01-31 08:38 pm (UTC)Which reminds me, if you want any of your stuff that I am storing for you, you might want to come get it before next year. :P
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Date: 2006-02-01 09:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-01 09:08 pm (UTC)