Some time soon, I will paint a small tacky
pink knock-down computer desk. I found it on the side of the road the other day. The desk will be periwinkle. I started to paint
the inside of my cloffice that color, but decided against it because we live in a rental, and the landlord probably wouldn't appreciate me painting the closet such a color. He's funny that way. My heart is
set on painting something periwinkle.
(Once I painted the bedroom in my house periwinkle with
bright white trim, with a brushed silver ceiling fan. Then I moved.
The tenant painted the walls dark taupe... breaks my heart, but since I didn't live there, it was okay...
That's one reason I want to move back - so I can paint the room periwinkle again!
Either that or take the ceiling fan down and bring it back up north with me... It's my house, after all... Sadly, the fan wouldn't fit in any of the rooms in our Snowbird Palace. I guess if I want periwinkle walls and a really cool brushed silver fan we will have to move down to GA, at least for the winter.)
You should have seen me trying to get that desk in
the car! It got stuck halfway in the door... I had to drive (with the door open
and the desk hanging out) to a small parking lot across the street and try to
get the top off so I could take the desk out of the car and hope it would go in the back seat sans top. For some reason, all the tools had been removed from the car!!
Luckily there was a gas station/garage in the parking lot, so I went in to
borrow flat and phillips screwdrivers. "Are you guys laughing at me
yet??" I asked with a smile as I walked in. One guy disavowed any such
thing. The other guy laughed and said "I sure was!" He then kindly went to get
the screwdrivers for me.
The desk top came off without incident, but
the rest of the desk had been glued together so it was a bit challenging to get it in
the back seat. At least the desk came out of the car. And back in the
car so I could bring it home. Somehow, it just didn't seem right to
consider dropping off the desk at the location I picked it up. So, I was
stuck with it...
And I remembered to return the
screwdrivers! Nice guys. I must remember to make them some goodies. (And not eat what they don't get...)
Oh, how I wish I would have taken pictures
of that little fiasco! You guys would have loved it!
As I was taking the desk out of the car,
debating where to put it, it dawned on me that I had just a week ago wondered
what I would use for a desk in my new craft/office/sun porch room. You
know what I'm gonna say next:
Thanks, Lord, for one more thing on my 'list'! It's so much fun watchin' God!
p.s. Guess what I found in the pocket
of the driver's side door afterwards? In my defense, if tools are going
to be in a door pocket, it's usually the passenger side, and I did look there...
If there isn't a picture of the finished desk, please leave a comment to remind me!
What have YOU found on the side of the road that just filled the bill for you?
