While watching Disney on Ice. . .
Drama Queen sees "Ariel and Eric" KISSING. "Mommy! They are KISSING! Are they married?"
Mischief sees the wildebeests stampede and Mufasah is run over. "Mommy! Are the werewolves taking Simba's daddy to the doctor?"
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Chaos Theory
I talk a lot about the chaos in my life. It seems sometimes to be all encompassing. My job, the studio, the laundry, the dishes, the children and their toys. The list goes on. How are you? Oh you know. . .crazy busy. Its my default setting. But sometimes its in the chaos that you see the beauty of someone else. F is an amazing man. Really - I have a tendency to harp on him a bit, and there are things about him that I'll never understand - but sometimes in the midst of insanity he just amazes me.
Case in point: We are redoing our living room. We are moving the big old TV to above the mantle and this requires a change of our entertainment center. We are getting rid of the three cabinets that currently sit on the floor and replacing them with two cabinets that will hang on the wall on either side of the TV. Now if you had asked me to do this. . .I would have taken a drill, some screws and molly bolts and hung the cabinets. I might have gotten out a tape measure and a level at some point. Then I would have hung the TV between the two cabinets and then realized I needed a hole in the cabinet to run the TV cables from the DVD player to the TV.
F? He measures everything. . .the cabinets, the TV, the mantle, the ceiling and the wall. He then centers the TV over the mantle, centers the cabinets between the edges of the TV and the wall, and the floor and the ceiling. But wait! I mean - he centers them on a drawing he has made where the living room is mapped out to scale. You didn't think I meant he hung them already right? The he draws with a pencil everything out on the wall. Perfect lines, perfect proportions. THEN, he cuts a large rectangular hole in the wall where the cabinet will hang. . .and reinforces the studs with a 2x6 piece of wood. And then patches the hole. THEN he cuts a smaller rectangular hole in the wall between where the TV will go and the cabinet will go. And proceeds to install a 2" PVC pipe in the wall so that the wires can go from cabinet to TV without even being seen. And patches the hole. When all that drys and the sand has settled - then we'll paint the walls. And then we'll hang the TV and cabinets.
So my living room is a nasty mess of sheet rock dust, wood chips, DVD cases, books scattered around the floor. But there is a method to his madness - and really - there is a lot of beauty to the chaos.
Case in point: We are redoing our living room. We are moving the big old TV to above the mantle and this requires a change of our entertainment center. We are getting rid of the three cabinets that currently sit on the floor and replacing them with two cabinets that will hang on the wall on either side of the TV. Now if you had asked me to do this. . .I would have taken a drill, some screws and molly bolts and hung the cabinets. I might have gotten out a tape measure and a level at some point. Then I would have hung the TV between the two cabinets and then realized I needed a hole in the cabinet to run the TV cables from the DVD player to the TV.
F? He measures everything. . .the cabinets, the TV, the mantle, the ceiling and the wall. He then centers the TV over the mantle, centers the cabinets between the edges of the TV and the wall, and the floor and the ceiling. But wait! I mean - he centers them on a drawing he has made where the living room is mapped out to scale. You didn't think I meant he hung them already right? The he draws with a pencil everything out on the wall. Perfect lines, perfect proportions. THEN, he cuts a large rectangular hole in the wall where the cabinet will hang. . .and reinforces the studs with a 2x6 piece of wood. And then patches the hole. THEN he cuts a smaller rectangular hole in the wall between where the TV will go and the cabinet will go. And proceeds to install a 2" PVC pipe in the wall so that the wires can go from cabinet to TV without even being seen. And patches the hole. When all that drys and the sand has settled - then we'll paint the walls. And then we'll hang the TV and cabinets.
So my living room is a nasty mess of sheet rock dust, wood chips, DVD cases, books scattered around the floor. But there is a method to his madness - and really - there is a lot of beauty to the chaos.
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