It's no big secret that i've been having my own mental meltdown here in wonderland. Somehow I've been able to be completely shut down while still running the show with a great big smile on my face. My poor husband who has delt with me deserve a fucking metal. I keep thinking I'll just WAKE UP and feel better one day and we can just move the frick on. Anyhow.. its these little things that make my madness all the more wonderful. I've hidden it from Tommy. I can't throw it away because.. well, I know better. Its a singing Holiday card from my mom some 10 years ago (because of course the cats name is on the card and she died at least that long ago). Anyhow, the card is barely working. It skips. Tommy thinks this is FUCKING HYSTERICAL! Then he decided it had to be fixed. So for some reason my husband has a ton of these random batteries. (HA!!) I got all Macgiver and changed the battery and it worked for about 30 seconds. Enough for him to hear the song and decide that he wanted it to skip again. So... i went back in, changed the batteries back and now.. its a crap shoot. When you open it, it MAY sing the song, it MAY skip.. or Now tommy's favorite.. it sings in very slow motion as the battery is on its last breath of life. Just thought I'd share that with you..
The reason we're here tonight is because of my kitchen table. We fell in love with this table 6 years ago, and loved that the seats were stools (high off the floor). High table etc. Nice. Yeah well, 6 years later, 3 pugs and an autistic teenager later... we were down to one chair (that had a back). The others had been sawed off from being thrown. Or the legs destroyed being thrown. We had 2 mismatched ikea stools we were using in place of 2 that were UN-salvageable. Tom's mom doesn't do the whole animal thing. The is what you call, a GERM-A-PHOBE! She'll pet the dogs, interact, and wash violently. She wont sit on our furniture because the dogs do. So, she sits at the kitchen table. a LOT. The whole 2days and 17 hours she comes to visit at a time. (She doesn't like to leave her place). I GET THIS and am very sympathetic to it. Where our tree is set up, I have a nice reading area for her to go relax where the dogs have NEVER been. (its my destroy free room. from the dogs AND tommy. the ONLY room UN destroyed!!) This morning however, the LAST chair with a back on it broke. It just wasnt repairable. We dropped a lot of money on this set (thought we'd actually treat ourselves to nice stuff.. BAHAHAAA!!) We decided we couldn't afford a new table so hopefully we could find her.. a nice stool lol.. With Christmas and things happening with adjusting to home school.. NOW is not the time to start changing things. My husband... the house genius, did some searching. And, just so happened to find someone on Craigslist selling.. our EXACT set. We spent maybe 1800 for the set.. this one, $250. For EVERYTHING!!!!!!!! 4 chairs. NEW table (unchewed by dogs, undented by utensils)
 |
| As you can see. These were the last 2. Tommy refused to sit on the backless one. He would act as if he were falling off of it constantly. |
Before dinner was done being ready, Dad arrives home with this...
 |
| Identical. All 4 chairs. ALL will back. Even covered with this plastic stuff so the cushions don't get all re-gross. Mother in law is going to be THRILLED! lol The Autism gods were with us tonight. I mean, this table was 6 years old. And she wasn't even the original owner. She found it at a consignment shop and the wood colors didn't match or whatever. I'm just thankful to not have to deal with something ELSE. |
Therapy (FOR ME!) tomorrow BEFORE all of this.
Holy Jebus I hope a cancellation comes for this psych visit. These meds are APPARENTLY NOT helping my situation.
Oh wow!! What a blessing! I should take a picture of our dining chairs. We have chairs that are missing the spindles in the back, one that is broken and wobbly. We have 3 chairs total - for 6 people. Chad and I get a chair. A lucky child gets a chair. Usually, Spike sits on the toy refrigerator (which I am about to freecycle because the kitchen set is making me CRAZY), Pouty sits in the chair, Samoo sits on one of those plastic drawer things (that we actually put toys & coloring books in), and D sits on an upside down clothes hamper. We're praying for Christmas money so we can get new chairs. LOL
ReplyDeleteI like the term "re-gross." I think I'll start using it.
ReplyDeleteI have a water-logged ten foot kitchen table (ok, not really ten feet... maybe only eight) with about thirty MISMATCHED chairs (ok, not thirty chairs... maybe only twenty-four) that I LOVE!!!! I mean, we got the table for free, the chairs were free (from various different places/people), and I made the cloth table cover (I did mention that it is "water-logged" right?). I LOVE this table, and I don't know what I will do when it is time to get another one (due to the chairs beginning to fall apart)!!! This table is the ONLY solid wood thing I have EVER owned, but Lilly still "finds" ways to break the legs, little "cross beams" on the chairs, and the underside of the table (the matching "cross beam" thingies). I KNOW I would not get so lucky as to find one like this online (I think this table is the very one that Jesus and the Disciples ate at during the Last Supper)!!! Way to go Tom!!! As for the therapy- I am SOOOO jealous!!! I want to spill my guts to someone... who gets paid for it and won't stop "being my friend" because I am just too much work. hahahahaha Hang in there tomorrow, and feed the man-boy LOTS of brownies during "The Troy" time!!! Good luck!
ReplyDelete@Lena- We really didnt have the $ to spend... someone is taking a hit on a Christmas. I think its one of the STILL PENDING medical bills from Tommys summer trip to the hospital lol When the kids were younger they used one of those fisher price or 1st step (whatever) picnic table. OMG they used that thing forever. Our last table is in the basement. Its in great condition and the chairs actually all MATCH!! But, the word BLUE is carved into it. Tommy used to like the movie LIAR LIAR and the part where Jim Carrey says "THE GOD DAMN PEN IS BBBBLLLUUEEE!" yeah.. Tommy carved BLUE into the table. *sigh* Its just too SMALL.
ReplyDelete@Jillsmo Resolve did NOTHING for what the cushions were like lmao Tommy eats like he needs a trough. Something we're "working on". Food spills on the floor and he says "oh its ok, puppies eat it" *smh*
OHHHHHH Betty. These last chairs... i seriously told Mike (the Teacher) please don't sit in these chairs. I can not guarantee that they won't collapse lmao Not that he's a BIG guy.. (just very TALL) I had about 30 wood screws drilled into each chair holding them together lol. VERY classy!
I like the new table. You're getting all fancy.
ReplyDeleteim RE-fancy Jim. Its the same table. just new again lol
ReplyDeleteHope all went well with Mike and Troy... Love the "What the Troy?"
ReplyDeleteThe table and chairs are looking fabulous in the photo!! Someone's looking out for you and I'm glad. Now "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire" is stuck in my head...