Every once in a while, I remember an old post I wrote back when my blog lived on Upsaid instead of Blogger (see the nevada project archives below). It may be a bit of narcissism combined with a much larger dose of nostalgia, but it makes me ridiculously happy to read many of those old posts. I love reading them for a number of reasons that I'm not going to explain in any detail whatsoever:
* It helps me remember who I was before I was here.
* It makes me feel more hopeful and optimistic about the future.
* It reminds me that I can be a decent writer when I choose to be.
* It makes me love all of you dear friends even more.
* It reminds me that I used to write more often about more interesting topics.
* It makes me feel whole.
Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts
Monday, October 18, 2010
Monday, June 22, 2009
monday night memory
This evening in the midst of a conversation with Rochelle, I stumbled across a memory that had long been buried in the farthest back recesses of my mind. Hidden in the far left corner under piles of old papers, childhood toys, layers of dust, and cobwebs was a beautiful memory. I will share it with you. Consider this my late-Monday night gift to you.
At some point when we lived together, we decided that we really detested the color of the vinyl on the kitchen floor. It was a lovely combination of mustard yellow and orange that really fit quite nicely with the whole 70s domestic look we had going between the floor, the hand-me-down dishes, the ugly couch, and the brown shag carpet. During some conversation we came up with a solution, at least for the kitchen flooring.
We decided that a perfect fix for the ugly floor would be to cover it with a patterned contact paper, like the stuff you would use to line drawers and shelves. It would be so simple and inexpensive. We would only need a roll or two, less than 5 minutes, and voilà -- shiny new floor!
I'm not sure that this idea ever came to fruition. I vaguely recall determining that the floor might end up being too slippery with the contact paper on it. Whatever actually deterred our innovative home decorating solution, it's probably good that this particular "genius" idea of ours was never fully implemented :)
At some point when we lived together, we decided that we really detested the color of the vinyl on the kitchen floor. It was a lovely combination of mustard yellow and orange that really fit quite nicely with the whole 70s domestic look we had going between the floor, the hand-me-down dishes, the ugly couch, and the brown shag carpet. During some conversation we came up with a solution, at least for the kitchen flooring.
We decided that a perfect fix for the ugly floor would be to cover it with a patterned contact paper, like the stuff you would use to line drawers and shelves. It would be so simple and inexpensive. We would only need a roll or two, less than 5 minutes, and voilà -- shiny new floor!
I'm not sure that this idea ever came to fruition. I vaguely recall determining that the floor might end up being too slippery with the contact paper on it. Whatever actually deterred our innovative home decorating solution, it's probably good that this particular "genius" idea of ours was never fully implemented :)
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