Requiem for a Shelf
Last week The Wife and Kid Sis did some decorating here at Casa AIH. They set up shelves, hung (hanged? I can never keep that straight) art, and generally spiffied up the place.* I was wise enough to stay the hell out of the way and then show appropriate appreciation for what the ladies can do when they get me out from underfoot.
The masterpiece of their efforts is what I have taken to calling the Wedding Shrine, a lovely little display of assorted artifacts related to our wedding, including some lovely pics of The Wife, a heirloom pen (for signing guestbooks), and, most importantly, the really awesome (and rather fragile) champagne flutes that The Wife customized for the wedding.
Today, the shelf fell down and went boom.
The flutes did not survive. Not even a little bit.
The good news: No one was seriously lacerated on the broken glass, which has (I think) all been cleaned up. The shelf is back up and (I think) more stable now, with nothing fragile on or under it.
All in all, not an awful Friday the 13th.
*Fun Fact: The Wife has four shelf-feet of Mr. Potato Heads.
The masterpiece of their efforts is what I have taken to calling the Wedding Shrine, a lovely little display of assorted artifacts related to our wedding, including some lovely pics of The Wife, a heirloom pen (for signing guestbooks), and, most importantly, the really awesome (and rather fragile) champagne flutes that The Wife customized for the wedding.
Today, the shelf fell down and went boom.
The flutes did not survive. Not even a little bit.
The good news: No one was seriously lacerated on the broken glass, which has (I think) all been cleaned up. The shelf is back up and (I think) more stable now, with nothing fragile on or under it.
All in all, not an awful Friday the 13th.
*Fun Fact: The Wife has four shelf-feet of Mr. Potato Heads.
posted by Ted @ 07:19
5 Comments:
At 14/6/08 20:35 ,
KAISER ANDY I said...
I'm sorry to hear about the wedding stuff getting broken, but gravity is not just a good idea- it's the law. And, it's not like the flutes breaking, while unfortunate, make you un-wed.
And to clarify things, people are hanged, inadimate objects are hung, unless you decide to go on and make a dick joke here.
At 16/6/08 02:09 ,
Yankee John said...
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At 16/6/08 14:32 ,
KAISER ANDY I said...
No full names on the radio, please.
At 4/7/08 16:08 ,
Yankee John said...
you're in danger of being lapped, sir.
At 8/7/08 19:41 ,
KAISER ANDY I said...
I realize that you have a stressful job and can't always dump your workload off on some chump, and that you recently bought a house, but are you spending your time cleaning the deck with a toothbrush or something?
John just poked fun at you, even though he hasn't put in a new entry since English switched from "hath" to "have."
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