It's a photo version of how things go in my head

Believe it or don't there are photos today!!!  There will be cute pics and there will be admissions of guilt and stupidity.  There will be trips down Memory Lane. And!  If that weren't worth the price of admission, you will get to be the first people to see the new table.  Yay!!!

So, let's get started, shall we?

Look at my new friend, Scruffy!  Isn't he the cutest?  Scruffy was on Death Row until my brother-in-law saved his life.  Scruffy had just had a bath and I was trying to photograph how his hair just naturally wants to be spikey and mohawk-y.

Next we come to some pictures of the very first house Mr. Big Ed and I bought.  Way back in 1983 we bought this little garden home and signed our lives away.  I remember clearly hearing the title guy say "Now, you are agreeing to make payments till 2013" and we looked at each other and thought "Whoa!  2013!  Damn, that sounds all Space Odyssey in the future!"  And all these years later we have moved more times than I care to think about and guess what?

It STILL ISN'T 2013!!!  That damn house STILL  wouldn't be all ours yet.  Good Lord.

But what I want you to notice is the 2 Wild Olive Trees in the front yard.  We planted them way back in the day and they were tiny little trees then.  They are big, gnarled and gorgeous now.  I just adore those olive trees and I would like to have some again.  Maybe we should find a place to put them in this yard?

While we were driving around looking at my old house we went by our old church and school.  This is where we chose to worship after we were married.  This is where my babies were baptized.  And also where we chose to start the kids in school.  It has also grown and changed over the years.

The first view is from the parking lot looking at the front of the school.  It didn't used to be green.  To the left of where I was standing is the Parish Hall.  And in front and to the right a bit is the actual church.

This one is the church.

And what do we have here?  This is the view from my front door waaaaaaay up at the top of the hill looking waaaaaay back down to the street at the delivery truck that brought my new coffee table for the living room.

And here it is!!!  Gasp!  It took me six years of searching and searching to find this table.  Notice anything?

Like maybe it is too f*cking TALL?  Like maybe this really isn't a COFFEE TABLE at all????


Like maybe I might have bought the wrong flipping thing?  I swear I read that this was a coffee table that the legs could be twisted up to be like a game table and then it opens up to be a spare dining table.

Let me back up to say that I bought this sight unseen.  Sort of.  I bought it on OneKingsLane where there were pictures and a description page.  And that is what I recall about it.  That and the fact that I saved $700 for buying it.  Whatever.

So I am going to have to go turn this thing over and find out if the legs actually do get shorter and longer or if I am going to have to chalk this up to experience and put it in another place.

I really, really, really don't want to have to tell Mr. Big Ed I could have screwed this up.  Cross your fingers for me.

I don't even know what to say about this table business.  I mean look at those legs do you see any possible way those things can telescope in on themselves?  It's too heavy for me to flip it over all by myself so it will have to wait till Sparky gets home this afternoon before we can start investigating.

You may want to cross more than your fingers on this deal.