Erica’s Blog

This one’s going around right now.  Could have some interesting results…

Tell me what you remember about me, or my evil twin or something, BUT:

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don’t speak often, please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL MEMORY OF YOU AND ME. 

It can be anything you want–good or bad–BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.  [My only request is that you keep it clean, folks.  My kid reads my blog sometimes.  My mother-in-law reads my blog.  My mother reads my blog!]

When you’re finished, post this on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON’T ACTUALLY remember about you.

Lest any of you out there fret over how hubby and I are doing together in light of this whole futon/fireplace mess:  Don’t worry. 

January is officially “Hubby Appreciation Month” since it ends on January 31st with his birthday.  He’ll be 39.  Yupp.  He will no longer be able to deny that he is in his late 30’s.  Of course, I’m in my early 40’s, but that’s OK.

Anyhow, how could I possibly resist that face?  Plus, he does stuff like:

• vacuum w/o even being asked
• put RainBlade on my windshields so I can see and don’t kill myself driving
• fix the Roomba (Go, hubby!)
• get me a really snazzy printer for Christmas
• parent the Things in a most excellent way
• work very hard to “keep” me (read: so that I can be a SAHM)
• love my wonderfully dysfunctional family
• help people move
• fix things around the house for little old ladies from church
• let me lie in bed unbothered when I have a migraine
• etc., etc., etc.

As the Things say, “Daddy’s the bomb!”

 I.  Will.  Conquer.  This.  Pattern.  If.  It.  Kills.  Me.

18 rows done.  I have a question and am anxiously awaiting a reply from Zib.  I seem, however, to have sent my email right after she went to bed, so I’ll have to wait a while.  It’s almost 6:00 a.m. in Italy now, though, so perhaps I’ll get an answer soon.  Of course, by then I’ll be too sleepy to knit anything that uses my brain at all, but at least I’ll have my answer.

Perhaps I’ll be able to wear Gioia next Sunday….

Ahem.  I sense a need for some clarification.  This comment was just left by hubby on the post “Hubby’s Way”.

Something everyone has to remember, there is a plywood board blocking the fireplace BECAUSE IT DOESN”T WORK!. It is not a fireplace. It is a hole in the wall. That hole just happens to have a mantel to make the hole look acceptable. We can not “admire” the fireplace. We can only admire a piece of plywood painted white surrounded by a white mantel piece.

We have no plans of repairing the fireplace. It would be better to pull out the mantel piece (Marky Mark’’s suggestion) and close the hole until we are ready to repair the fireplace. Then, when it’’s repaired, we can put in a new better mantel piece. NEW, BETTER = Erica gets to spend some $$.

OK.  Herein lies the real crux of the problem:  Hubby and I have opposite opinions on this whole fireplace issue.

Hubby - Either tear down the mantel and fill the thing in and forget about it or put in a pellet stove insert.

Yours Truly - Pay the $2,000 necessary to fix the chimney, get a grate, andirons, a fireplace screen, and fireplace tools and USE that puppy as the real, wood-burning fireplace it was meant to be!

So, you can see that this is the real issue here.  If you don’t plan ever to use the fireplace, yeah get rid of the 62-year-old mantle, etc., etc. and put whatever piece of furniture or electronics (that’s what hubby really wants - a wall-mounted, flat-screen TV) you want there.  If you DO plan to use the fireplace, of course you wouldn’t think of putting anything in front of the fireplace.

Then, of course, there’s Thing Two’s immediate response when she saw it, “But where will we put our stockings???”

It is extremely likely that, at the very least, we’ll put the end table and glider back where they used to be.  I’m right-handed, so having the table on my left when I’m knitting just isn’t working for me.  If we do that, we’ll put Jenna’s bed over where the end table is at the moment.