Pivot. Pi-vot. PI-VOT.
Sometimes I wonder if, when I mention a problem or an issue I am dealing with on here, if it’s blatantly obvious to everyone who knows me exactly what I am talking about. That fear has kept me from publicly processing one of the bigger things I have been dealing with over the past few months, which makes me feel like my entries are lackluster since they don’t actually touch on the things I’m pondering.
Since our anniversary is fast approaching, I thought I would recycle some blog entries from my very first (very defunct) blog that I wrote around the time of our first anniversary. Here is a story that is still very close to my heart.
When we moved in our two-bedroom apartment, we put the desk and computer in the second bedroom, but we had no bed for it. My parents generously offered us the use of their old couch bed, so I went to get it. I had some trouble getting it to the apartment (read: it rained on me and I had to pull into a gas station where a very nice man on a motorcycle helped me tie tarps over the couch), but when we finally set it down in the living room, we realized we had a slight problem (besides the fact that couch beds are very very heavy). Our hall is kind of short, and the couch didn’t really fit very well into the hall to get it through the door. Undaunted, we twisted and turned the couch until half it was in the room, half of it was in the hall, and the rest was stuck in the doorway with no sign of moving. Mike and I were on opposite sides of the couch, unable to see each other, and making idiotic comments such as, “I’ll kind of push it this way . . .” “Which way?” “This way!” and getting nowhere. Fortunately after about 10 minutes and some painful bruises, Mike in all his genius realized where it was stuck (I still don’t know what he did), and we got the couch in the room, taking only a very little bit of the door frame with us. I’m sure some paint will cover it up.
Teamwork in action, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much.
The really funny thing (to me) about this story is that we didn’t watch much Friends at that point, and I had never seen the pi-vot episode. If you have seen that, well, that’s a fair approximation of what we looked like. And, you know, we had no trouble whatsoever getting the couch out of the apartment. (I say “we” when I mean “Mike and some strong guys.” So I may have been the weak link.) But just thinking about how much trouble that couch gaves us still gives me the giggles.
May 19th, 2005 at
That reminds me of While You Were Sleeping…there’s a great couch-moving scene in there, too. “I’m gonna try an old family trick.” “What’s that?” “Push really hard.” “Oh. ……..well? are you going to push?” “…..I just did.” And then he pushes for real and she falls on her butt and knocks over a vase. Hehehe. (So that wasn’t an exact quotation…but an approximation is better than nothing, right?
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I shudder to think how we’re going to get both of our couches AND our bed through the door of our townhouse, since there’s a little fence right in front of the door that I’m sure is going to make things difficult. Maybe we get Mike to advise us on how to get things un-stuck so we will be armed with helpful information beforehand.
May 19th, 2005 at
Yes, Mike and I can come and advise. hehe.
I like that moment from WYWS. That movie is cuter than it really should be, mostly because of the cuteness of Sandra Bullock. (Here’s where Brian chimes in.)
May 19th, 2005 at
Uh Kari, she said MIKE, since you, he got it through the door.
So what does this years ann. hold?
May 20th, 2005 at
Sometimes I wonder if, when I mention a problem or an issue I am dealing with on here, if it’s blatantly obvious to everyone who knows me exactly what I am talking about. That fear has kept me from publicly processing one of the bigger things I have been dealing with over the past few months, which makes me feel like my entries are lackluster since they don’t actually touch on the things I’m pondering.
The people that would know you well enough to know what you are talking about… would it be so bad if they DID know exactly what you meant?
I wonder the same thing myself, but then I think…. why do I feel like I have to hide things from others. If I want to say that I’m transparent, I should be transparent.
Not to mention there is always the option to password protect posts that shouldn’t be for all eyes.
Anyway, just a thought.
May 20th, 2005 at
Sometimes, yes, when there are other people involved, I think my frustrations shouldn’t be aired publicly.
May 20th, 2005 at
Ah… okay, I misunderstood… I agree that the public arena is not necessarily the place for airing personal frustrations (particularly when they are just frustrations with other people).
I guess I thought you meant musings about your life in particular….. but maybe there’s not much of a difference depending on your personality? It can certainly be challenging when someone reads something you’ve written about them.
This has been my dilemma in keeping an online record of my life for over 4 years though…. sometimes when I write about something, it’s not even about anything related to someone that would be reading, and yet people read into things and believe they are about them. I has caused some trouble in the past, but oftentimes it has made me realize that there are things in those other relationships that need to be dealt with. It’s tough to be faced with that at times, but I do find it rewarding in the end when the friendship/relationship in strengthened.
(Sorry to be doing self-therapy in your comments section).
This must be why some people blog completely anonymously.
May 20th, 2005 at
In general I don’t mind posting musings about my life in particular, but I try to keep frustrations with specific people off the blog. Sometimes musings do spring from issues with other people, and I think that’s been the case lately, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to talk about online. Which is how it goes sometimes.
May 20th, 2005 at
We have a piano in one of our back bedrooms that will probably be in the house until it is demolished. We had to almost dismantle the whole thing to get it down the hall and into the room. That was many years ago, but I feel your frustration. It’s funny now, but ………
May 20th, 2005 at
good story.
so if your old blog is defunct, where’d you get the old entry?
May 20th, 2005 at
I have all the old entries saved on my computer.