What's the stupidest thing you've done recently?

I'm not even reading it much anymore. I figure if it gets really bad, somebody will tell me.

Okay. More stupidity. Everybody knows that 16:59 is nearly 5pm, right? Well... somehow in my paint-addled brain, all during the day while turning it over and over in my mind how I was supposed to be at the airport at 15:59... I decided that was 6pm and I didn't need to get there until 7 (figuring deplaning, customs, etc.). Am madly finishing the last of the room when we get a plaintive call from the airport. Are you coming to get me???

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*Editing out: a double post*

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Oh no, Piffka, but at least he came home safe and sound. Is the room finished yet? How did he like it?

This all just goes to show that the twenty-four hours clock and paint fumes just don't mix, damn them.

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Maybe the stupidest thing I've done is taking my husband back.

But just maybe if I hadn't, that would have been the stupidest thing....

Hmmmmm.

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drÃ²m_et_rÃªve wrote:

Oh no, Piffka, but at least he came home safe and sound. Is the room finished yet? How did he like it?

This all just goes to show that the twenty-four hours clock and paint fumes just don't mix, damn them.

Heehee. Yep! Durn twenty-four hour clock, fumes & brain! An awful combination....

He came home easily and quickly on the airporter which drops off within a mile of our house, so I didn't have to fight the (awful) traffic to get to the airport. He's gotten so comfortable with public transportation that he recovered quickly from his dismay and it was not a problem for him to figure out how to get home on his own.

He is glad to be home and he loves, LOVES his room. It hadn't been painted since he was 10, and was the original all-one-color of cream. Horribly beaten up over the teenage years with lots of young guys up there falling into walls, throwing things, spilling things... y'know? Ugh!

I repainted the ceiling in a bright white (we've got some fluorescent paint & we're going to surprise him with a night sky constellation scheme... so we needed that to be bright white). As you enter the room, the wall behind you is maroon glazed with gold, below the chair rail it is taupe. The walls to the left & in front were repainted cream. That front wall is the window wall and it was glazed with gold as well. The wall to the right is a short wall (this is a sort of attic room) and it was painted taupe, too. Amazingly, it all works, the taupe makes things recede and the room seems bigger. That glaze is amazing; over red, it looks like old gold, over cream, it looks like sunshine. My big splurge, even though it was bought on sale, was a queen-sized bed to replace his twin bed. I also put his two best posters into frames. Pictures look great on that red wall! There are some small pieces of furniture that have to be painted, but the room looks finished. He's very happy with it and I am too. Dang, I'm good! (Forgetful, and stupid about 24 hour clocks, but otherwise... good.)

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Clary? You OK?

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Piffka wrote:

drÃ²m_et_rÃªve wrote:
Oh no, Piffka, but at least he came home safe and sound. Is the room finished yet? How did he like it?

This all just goes to show that the twenty-four hours clock and paint fumes just don't mix, damn them.

Heehee. Yep! Durn twenty-four hour clock, fumes & brain! An awful combination....

He came home easily and quickly on the airporter which drops off within a mile of our house, so I didn't have to fight the (awful) traffic to get to the airport. He's gotten so comfortable with public transportation that he recovered quickly from his dismay and it was not a problem for him to figure out how to get home on his own.

He is glad to be home and he loves, LOVES his room. It hadn't been painted since he was 10, and was the original all-one-color of cream. Horribly beaten up over the teenage years with lots of young guys up there falling into walls, throwing things, spilling things... y'know? Ugh!

I repainted the ceiling in a bright white (we've got some fluorescent paint & we're going to surprise him with a night sky constellation scheme... so we needed that to be bright white). As you enter the room, the wall behind you is maroon glazed with gold, below the chair rail it is taupe. The walls to the left & in front were repainted cream. That front wall is the window wall and it was glazed with gold as well. The wall to the right is a short wall (this is a sort of attic room) and it was painted taupe, too. Amazingly, it all works, the taupe makes things recede and the room seems bigger. That glaze is amazing; over red, it looks like old gold, over cream, it looks like sunshine. My big splurge, even though it was bought on sale, was a queen-sized bed to replace his twin bed. I also put his two best posters into frames. Pictures look great on that red wall! There are some small pieces of furniture that have to be painted, but the room looks finished. He's very happy with it and I am too. Dang, I'm good! (Forgetful, and stupid about 24 hour clocks, but otherwise... good.)

I'm glad to hear that he got home in one piece; what was he doing in London, anyway? I never asked. Was it a college exchange? For how long was he there?

Wow; I can get a good image of it now; it seems to me that you have put lots of care and consideration into redecorating the room... I'm glad that he likes it. (Although I knew that a) he would like it and b) you'd pull it all together into something amazing.)

I know what you mean about 'teenage' rooms... mess on the floors, remnants from late nights; when I was sharing a mixed flat in my first few years of college, it seemed as if few of the others had moved out of this phase, and were still bringing their washing home. That living room carpet had the most extraordinary spectrum of colours and spills... yack.

My congratulations Very Happy

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Clary wrote:

Maybe the stupidest thing I've done is taking my husband back.

But just maybe if I hadn't, that would have been the stupidest thing....

Hmmmmm.

Yeah; what's up? You know that we're all ready to listen, if you want.

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drÃ²m_et_rÃªve wrote:

I'm glad to hear that he got home in one piece; what was he doing in London, anyway? I never asked. Was it a college exchange? For how long was he there?

He was participating in a program through his community college along with 30 other students from the Seattle area. They started in September -- he took classes in Cultural Anthropology and British Life & Culture, which meant a lot of time in museums and touring. Great fun learning how to live in London though his homestay (arranged by the school program) was weird for him -- a three-bedroom house with seven people in Northfields. It was good for him to learn that not everybody can afford to have one bedroom per person. He shared a parlor room with another student from his program... the bedrooms were given to two girls from Italy doing their own college's exchange, a girl from Japan, and the landlady's son. The landlady packed 'em in and slept on the couch herself. She was a Serbian who had fled to London during the Bosnian war.

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Wow... that was a homestay choice quite out of the ordinary, yet it provided him with a view of England beyond the over-romanticization of Pride and Prejudice days- of an attitude that's no longer here, of'The Queen,' fish and chips, strong accents and football, and so it has to be a worthwhile experience! Did he make friends with the very international crowd? Every time I go down to London, I'm more likely to be talking Spanish or trying (and failing) to understand a few words of an erratic Slavic language than hearing English... it's quite amazing. So, is he back to studying at the college, now, or is he going into the world of work?

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Yep, very different from some family in tweeds, that's for sure. He liked the Italian girls and said the Japanese girl was nice, too, but at 31, a little old for him. She cooked them sushi which he appreciated. He'll be going back to school in January and plans to get a part-time job.

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drÃ²m_et_rÃªve wrote:

Clary wrote:
Maybe the stupidest thing I've done is taking my husband back.

But just maybe if I hadn't, that would have been the stupidest thing....

Hmmmmm.

Yeah; what's up? You know that we're all ready to listen, if you want.

Thank you drom, part of the story can be seen on Suicide-should it be legal? which I joined on Nov 13th. It's all a bit happening just now, maybe I will sort it out and come to a conclusion in a year or so. Just thought it might spice the thread a little! Sometimes the seemingly stupid things can turn out for the best.

By the way, Piffka's son's student experience in London sounds typical. I run a language school here in this little town, and some of our students have escaped from London - they often have host families who speak no English, and yet they are here specifically to learn it! 2 of my sons are in London - they share with foreigners and love the international buzz.

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I'll have to go look up the suicide thread. I took my husband back, as they say, and then it didn't work out, kicking self. Not without humor though, some time later.

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Piffka wrote:

He'll be going back to school in January and plans to get a part-time job.

Wait wait wait this is significant, no? Is military receding?

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(Heh, I think Piffka is holding her breath on this, Sozobe, but not sure.)

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re: the subject of this thread---

I grinned at the camera.

and posted it.

J

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Aw!!

Lookit that face!

Lookit that grin!

Such a sweetheart.

(Keeping various things crossed for Piffka.)

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