Setting its beauty aside, as hard as that is, it now leaves me with a dilemma. You see, when I wanted to break away from things and just relax, I had the bookshelf to work on. Measuring, cutting, routing, sanding, sanding, and of course more sanding, staining, sealing, mounting and finally, choosing the books and items to place on it. I reveled in it, because it was mine. From first cut, to final nick nack, it was mine.
But it is done now. Well, at least 90% done. I still have one shelf to fill with non-book items. I could put more foreign souvenirs, but I don't like the idea of putting up more than one from a country and I would quickly run into this problem. Now my though is baseballs, and I have more than enough to fill the shelf, but not many of them are worth putting on display. Essentially, I've hit a writer's block on the last paragraph. Frustrating. Ideas?
Really what I wanted to get at is that now I have completed the thing I wanted to get done for a while. Please, don't ridicule "building a bookshelf" as a task worthy of this honor, but for me it was. And I've completed it. What now? It was nice because for the hour or so a day, I wasn't thinking about the things I probably should be thinking about. Medical School, Marriage, Dating, and what happens if the first one doesn't happen. (Please don't ask me. I really have no answer. Ask Mike instead. He might actually have one. Not kidding. Smart money says he has much more a backup plan for me than I do.)
Now what? Here are my thoughts. Mind you, I work 32 hours a week. That's not nearly as important as the 48 hours I spend awake and unoccupied on days not Sunday during the week. Also, I have moderate funds, but not limitless. I only wish. The ceiling of the extravagance of ideas is to purchase the most beautiful car ever, and the restore it. Amazingly, I think this might end up costing only $3500 over the space of the next ten months. It doesn't take a math major to realize that means $350 a month. How I decide this being the cap? Because that's how much rent use to cost. Logical, as always.
The complications involved in such an undertaking are numerous, but not irreconcilable. Below that, it's wide open. Call it ADD. Call it needing a constant change of pace. Whatever it is, it's definitely something I need to resolve.
Oh, and I refuse to let Jake and Holli have a more recent blog post than me. Of course I'm that petty. I thought about Jared and Courtney, but I wouldn't have a shot. They simply have much more of an audience and therefore they need to please them much more often. Case in point, they've had a counter for roughly three weeks and they have had approximately 600 hits. Mine's been going for almost ten months. Finally hit 1000 yesterday. Ridiculous. Can't match that. Won't. Too intimidating.
There you go. Word.
4 comments:
I'm just up feeding Noah. Your blogpost was hilarious!
Although, I hear ya about not knowing what to do with the free time! At least you have 'moderate funds.' We don't even have that!
The bookshelf looks great. We just have pictures in frames in our empty space.
Its every man's dream, to some extent, to rebuild a car. If you have the time and means to do it now, then you absolutely should. I wish I was there doing it with you.
Well done on the bookshelf. You really went all out on it!
Ok, Ok, Ok. I've got it. Here's what you can do now... Make me one! I love it... it's awesome! It would go well with the future living room of my home that I wont have for probably ten years.
Dude, I'm not gonna lie, objectively speaking that is one heck of a bookshelf. I love it.
If I had the authority to do so, and if you were still 18 years of age or younger I would officially give you your wood-working merit badge.
As for what to do in your free-time, why not bust out the Bob Ross re-runs and and paint some scenic landscapes? I've always wanted to do that -- I'm jus' sayin'.
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