Fall is starting, even though the last few days have been sunny and 97.
AS PROMISED - The lamp
I wish I could say I am in love with it - I guess it's okay for now.
I think it looks better in person.
Boxed in the base, applied thin wood to the base box, glued them, and then added metal stripes we had laying around - sprayed them black to give that industrial look.
Finally found shades - but they were not cheap.
Still trying to decide whether this project was even worth it.
I'm just glad it's done.
Now I want to paint the inside of my house. Just the walls - not the ceiling.
Thursday night we went out to dinner - Friday night we had a birthday dinner at Navy's place - celebrating along with his mother-in-law, whose birthday was Friday.
Saturday I stayed home while my Husband went hiking.
Sunday was church and then we went to dinner at the home of a new friend couple. We don't really know them - it was all my husband's doing. He's Mr. Social Butterfly lately.
When we left and got into the car, we were both quiet - and as we drove home, I'm thinking,
"I'm not going to say anything because he will think I am being negative."
Then, he broke the silence by asking what I thought of the Evening.
"It was fine," I answered. "What about you?"
To make a long story short - he wasn't too thrilled with the evening either. We all just didn't click. I have never had this happen to us before. Is it us? Is it them? Did they feel it, too?
There were 2 other couples that they knew really well - so it was one of those situations where we just weren't privy to the inside jokes and there were no initial introductions. So I didn't know who was who, where they belonged - nothing. I was lost in their conversations most of the time.
One man friend of theirs disagreed with something my husband said - no biggie but he got really mad and said he refused to argue about it.
No One was arguing but him. The man's body language showed he did not like my husband. He just refused to look at him. He did later admit, he has "pride issues" but come on Bud, we're adults here.
So THAT was very awkward.
So we continued to nitpick the whole evening - and decided that we just didn't feel comfortable with them. They like different things than we do - we just don't have anything in common.
So that was disappointing.
I didn't sleep well that evening - thinking about the whole evening - "what did I do?" "Was it something we said or did?"
Why do we always think it is us when it could be the other couples. Actually, there was one couple there we enjoyed - but they are moving and that was their last evening to see them.
Thank God they had 2 cute dogs - a Labradoodle and a boxer.
I'm still bothered by it all - I need to just let it go.
