Saturday, January 29, 2011

Life With a Green Couch



Why did we name our blog "Life With a Green Couch" you ask? That, is quite the story. I found this couch on KSL for 40 dollars. Can you believe that?! Neither can I. This couch was and still is my most prized piece of furniture.

Here is where the story gets good: Johnny and I tried to move it into our little home. We live in a basement apartment (photos coming soon). The couch wouldn't fit! Johnny and Ian tried every which way and it just would not budge through the door. Unfortunately, the couch is all one piece too! I couldn't take it apart and bring it in piece by piece. It'd be a total understatement to say I was sad, I was completely and utterly devastated. I may have even shed a few tears over it.

I spent that entire evening brainstorming ways to fit it into the house. I brought my friend Gwen over to help me move in and I told her that I was going to get that couch inside if it was the last thing I'd do! Gwen and I soon realized that the only way that was going to happen was if we did something wild and reckless like saw off the legs.

That is exactly what we did. We took a power saw to that baby and chopped off each and every one of those legs. We shovedit through our bedroom window, and with Tara's help (who showed up a bit later), we gorilla glued each leg back on. It's now the sturdiest couch on the planet...well maybe that's an exaggeration, but it's pretty dang sturdy.

Jack of All Trades...Master of Luna

A while back, someone made a comment to Johnny saying, "Wow, you're the jack of all trades but the master of none!" Quite the ego boost right? Wrong. So we were out the other day and Johnny kept saying this about himself and talking about how he wants to become the master of something. First off, it is important to mention that Johnny has an incredible gift of being able to do just about everything he tries well--he wasn't necessarily discrediting that, but just wants to push himself even more.

Another to note about Johnny: He hates when someone comforts with something like, "Oh, everything will be alright!" or "Don't worry, it will all work out." He likes encouragement with basis and reason behind it. How do you garuntee to your husband that he will become the master or something? This is kind of how that might go:

Me: "Oh hunny...no worries, you're going to become the best at the next thing you try!"
Johnny: "How do you know that?"
Me: "Well...you see...I don't."

Obviously that wasn't going to be a good option. Well luckily, we got a puppy. Her name is Luna and she is 6 weeks old. She is blue heeler, red heeler, border collie, and australian shepherd. Yeah, I know, we're crazy, just like we were when we decided to get married after three weeks, or got married after only dating six months, we are just plain crazy. But so is she, so she fits right in.



Long story short, In order to comfort Johnny I decided to say, "It's okay! You're the jack of all trades and the master of Luna!"