95 inch back door sliding glass door. Part VII. (continued from Part VI here) (or, start from the beginning here)
Most normal people understand that their first attempt at making something typically turns out sub-par results. Somehow I didn’t get lumped in with the rest. Whenever I put the blood and sweat and tears into something - its AMAZING, regardless of the turn out. Best job, ever. And whereas I understand this is very obnoxious - it still doesn’t change anything. I have to concentrate really, really hard in order to try to figure out if whatever I made or created or whatever is actually that good? Or is it my famed over-compensation? Anywho - imagine my dismay after slaving over these 7-story-long back door curtains, with all the adventures and newfound knowledge and everything… when Mike comes home from tour, take one look at the finished product and spouts off:
1) Ohhhhh. Babe. Wow.
2) Are those Moses’ old curtains?
3) What is that MATERIAL? Looks like Bible cloth!
4) Is that —-
I interrupt.
Dude. I happen to LOVE THEM. They’re, you know, real earthy. I was going for brown, earthy, calming.
4) EARTHY is right! Like back when the dinosaurs were around- earthy!
What?! That doesn’t even make any sense man! I’m like, look, are you trying to show off that you knew what the interior decorating fads were like back in the day, or are you trying to SUGGEST that my creation is NOT the most beautiful thing you’ve ever SEEN?!
Anyway, it turned out that his best compliment of the night was something like “Well they are really nice, even though they’re pretty bad. Maybe we can hang them upstairs? Yeah! They would go PERFECT up there! No one will see them that way! Awesome job babe!”
Grrr. We went to IKEA a week later and bought 2 panels for a total of 15 bucks. However, I am happy to report that the Moses curtains hang quite non-subtly in the master bedroom, where I get to see them everyday. And I still kind of have a grudge against the IKEA curtains.
