so here is a funny story about interior design...
i get this chair, it is a really nice lazy boy chair recliner, deep blue, in good shape, great bones. it came from a coworker who was getting rid of it because her kids are now off to college or own their own, she got it from another coworker who didn't want it who got it from her mom when she went into "the home", so this chair has history. it is the most comfortable chair i've ever sat in, as soon as i sunk into it and reclined i wanted to take a nap, it is that good.
we mostly live with portable stuff, partly because i'm too old to be carrying heavy stuff up and down stairs and this is not my permanent home, and partly because this is how my family has always done it, the no permanent home thing. card table and folding metal chairs for dining, larger folding table for desk, $5 Walmart camp chairs for furniture, we also eat off paper plates because i hate doing dishes. "it's just like camping" is the joke in my family. camping is good.
anyways, we clear out a spot and vacuum the floor area and the chair, and omg is this thing soft. my kid is in summer classes for extra high school credit and he is doing well, which is good because he's gonna need scholarships or student loan debt to follow his dreams of being a scientist, ever since he saw that mar's movie. so monday through thursday he goes to class and on fridays he is off, and yesterday before leaving for work i ask "so what are your plans today, text me if you leave the apartment". he says "this is all messed up dad, it don't fit, i am going to do some interior design". wtf? well i guess that is better than hanging out at the park and feeling some girl's boobs or smoking behind the 7-11. this is even odder because my degree is in architecture, design and planning. so i just say "knock yourself out kid, what you got?" and i leave for work.
when i get home everything is moved. elliptical machine is against the far wall, dining card table moved a bit, desk slid down further, bike parked in the corner, but get this... the only thing in the living room area is the tv stand, big screen tv, and "the chair". he is laid out full recline mode with a blanket over him, not 6 feet from the screen in the middle of the room, and he is jamming gears of war, full horizontal recline physical stasis but his mind is running hard, like neo from the matrix before he pops. he made himself a gaming palace, tv stand next to the chair with three hot pocket wrappers and empty coke cans stacked on it, he rollin hot.
i just shake my head and say "nice work, not how i would've done it, but nice work". at least he's learning something, both in school and out.
have a good weekend, off to the big city for a ballgame and some school clothes shopping.