One word.
Posted: December 18, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized 6 Comments »
Have you seen this email?
Describe me in ONE WORD…just one word! Send it to me only, then send this message to your friends and see how many strange things people say about you! This could be fun! Just hit reply and send me my one word back.
Then forward this message on to your friends (including me) and see what they say about you!
GAME ON!!
I got it from my Aunt Phyl. It is hard. I wrote “creative” and sent it back and then kicked myself. She is very creative, but is that the best word to describe her? She is so much more than that.
I sent it to some of my friends. I was perplexed by some of the responses and humbled by others. A few: accurate, passionate, determined, incredible (hee hee, I needed that), loyal… But the answer that I would never dreamed of getting – and I didn’t, rest assured – is laid-back. I am not laid-back.
Case in point. My house is a wreck. It’s a wreck for a good reason and I’m going to love it when it’s done. But it’s really and truly, and I’m not exaggerating, a wreck. The kitchen table is sideways and upside down in the dining room. The dining room table is in the living room, along with all 12 chairs from both sets, a sofa, chaise, 2 desks and a club chair. Did I mention the kids’ computer is in there too?
I just set the table – the dining room table – for dinner tonight. In the living room. With all that other stuff shoved aside far enough for us to fit at the table. It’s quite a sight. But damn it, we’re sitting down for dinner. If it kills me. And it might.
I think I was doing fine until yesterday. I was handling the mess. I was working around it. But now, there is no working around it. I guess the good news is, I’m a lot more relaxed than Andrew. He’s in a fetal position somewhere out of the work zone.
Hang in there, it will allllll be worth it when it’s done. I painted the majority of my house this summer, and THEN I decided that I could paint a mural on the back side of a suspended cabinet over the July 4th weekend. Three days turned into 30, with scaffolding, ladders, and 100 bottles and tubes of paints, brushes, and buckets…
You ARE going to love it!
And, my word for you, knowing you like I do, is:
dynamic
You’ll love it when it’s done. My first house was a fixer-upper; we replaced drywall in all but one room of that 1000 square foot house. During the time we spent drywalling our bedroom (both of us working full-time and my drywall skills pretty damn poor!) we slept on a mattress in the kitchen. SIX MONTHS sleeping in the kitchen! (actually, I think it may have been only two weeks, but it felt like forever!)
You’ll make it through. And you’ll always remember the Christmas you spent with the kitchen in the dining room, the dining room in the living room, and a partridge in a pear tree.
just one word? that’s a hard one for someone like you. i think i’d say passionate. about your family, about your work, about your volunteer work, about making a difference in your world and the people around you. definitely passionate.
Thank you for your support! Yes, it will be great when/if it is ever finished. AND I am very grateful that I’m not sleeping in the kitchen. That sounds dreadful!
Gnightgirl – I’d love to see that mural! (and I love your word – thanks!)
oy! someone else already sent you passionate. i feel unoriginal
but at least i know it’s appropriate.
Kristin – I love your word, too! Thanks