Wally and I have decided to decorate our new house. It’s only been four years since we moved in.
Okay, truthfully, I decided to finally decorate our house. Even though Wally also complains our house looks like we just moved in and wants it to reflect more of who we are too, I’m the only one who has gotten excited and energized over turning our house into a home, finally. Men.
Anyway, I’ve gang pressed Wally into service by making him design some art for the walls. And this MUST BE DONE BEFORE THANKSGIVING! I don’t know why I’ve set this deadline for myself. I guess I imagine my family walking into my home on Thanksgiving oooh’ing and aaah’ing over the new splash of style, the artful way I’ve transformed our home during the Great Recession through awesome Goodwill finds and my own personal slave labor.
What are the chances that will actually happen before they begin their roles of Frank and Estelle Constanza? Let me put it like this: I’ll turn it into a drinking game where for every 15 minutes that goes by without my parents commenting on the new decor, I’ll do a shot of bourbon. I’ll be drunk before 9 am. If I add in a shot for every time they yell at each other like Frank and Estelle, I’ll pass out before 10 am.
I love quotes and plan to incorporate them into some of the artwork Wally is designing. But I don’t want the “Live Laugh Love” or any of the other commercial sayings that are all the rage right now. It must be more original than that, yet thought provoking, yet not schmaltzy, but yet still short enough to fit in the frames I scored at Goodwill.
This is my latent anal-retentiveness coming out. It’s a life-long disease, really, one in which you may manage but never fully recover.
So I decided to make up my own quotes, ones that reflect the times in which we live, the things we currently value, spend energy on – you know, that kind of stuff, etc.
Here’s what I’ve come up with so far.
“I have 1,147 followers on Twitter.”
“My blog is in the top 1% of blogs.”
“I have integrity. Because I have an HTML-embedded badge on my blog saying so.”
“Have you felt my Twitter influence? I just moved up 5 places on the influence chart.”
“I get at least 50 PR pitches a day, my ability to whore products is that respected.”
What do you think?
No?
Okay, how about this one?
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.” -Oscar Wilde
That one is probably a better quote for bloggers but still not quite it.
“I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.” -Zelda Fitzgerald
Yes, that’s it. One down, two more to go.
(*I don’t always get 50 PR pitches a day. Sometimes it’s 0. Okay, most days it’s 0.)
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I like your quotes much better than the ones that come in the boxes. Truly. I’ve wanted to do something like that in my house, but yeah… that “Live, Laugh, Love” crap is not welcome in my home.
Good luck with the decorating! We’re working on that too, but we’re taking baby steps. We painted our bathroom last month. The first thing to be done in 4 years!
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I plan to do a wall quote as well. As of yet I don’t have a wall though. My husband is championing this quote:
“This is where we belong.”
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I once had an odd dream in which I painted the words to the song “Mame” all around the ceiling molding of my dining room. It started in one corner “You coax the blues right out of the horn……MAAAAAAMMME….You charm the husk right off of the corn (two, three, four) MAAAAAAAMMMME.” I’d be willing to give up the idea if you want it. I bet the Costanzas would love it.
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As a HGTV addict, I totally applaud this goal. Hoping we get to see pics of the final products.
Here’s some other good quotes:
“I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.” — Grandma Moses
“I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.” — Patricia Schroeder
“I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.” — Madame Curie
“We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.” — Madeline L’Engle
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How about, “Yes, this is Payton’s mother.”
jk (sort of)
“I have integrity. Because I have an HTML-embedded badge on my blog saying so.”
That’s my favorite. Or, you could just say “Trust me.”
And when you’re done at your house, could you please come decorate mine? I’m really good at wall color and furniture. Suck at actually decorating around it.
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I’d have to go with one from Phillis Diller; “Cleaning the house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”
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How about “Home is where the liquor is”?
Oh Zelda. Put up what you want to, heck with the relatives, they don’t have to live with it every day.
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sounds ….innovative.
i think you should totally go with the twitter quotes. because when you get around to re-vamping your house again in another 4 years, maybe we’ll all forget about what twitter even is.
i’d like to also admit that our house looks the same as it did when we moved in 7 years ago. we are sooo ready to change it. but- ack! that takes some time. & ideas. oh, and a little money.
(we’d love to just pay someone to do it all).
we have literally changed 2 rooms. the dining room (but the godawful curtain is still there) & the bean’s room (we painted a wall plaid!)
good luck to your deadline.
hope to see pix
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How ’bout, “Leggo my Eggo?” or “We save the good liquor for company.”
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My wall would have to have the same disclaimer as my blog, “May contain inappropriate language…this wall not suitable for childen”. I think my in-laws would totally dig that.
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