In preparation for the entry of a new life into this brave new world, it has fallen on the Simians to ensure suitable accommodation for all occupants, both current and imminent.
Thus, with the new baby destined for the nursery (after the first few months bedside, so as to make the nursing gig easier on my wife), the spare room has had to be remodelled into a little boy's room for Declan. This spare room, aside from housing the occasional guest, also had enshrined within my valued Anakin Skywalker Force FX lightsabre. (Drives the dogs nuts when it flares to life.)
During the demolition phase of the room, I cast a heavy and heartfelt sigh as I removed the wall mounts and prepared myself, psychologically, to relegate my icon to the basement with the rest of the Star Wars toys.
Upon seeing my melancholy, my darling wife assumed a sympathetic stance:
"You know Si, instead of taking that downstairs, why don't you just put the mounts up in our bedroom and you can keep it there?"
Oh yeah, baby. She totally rocks!
Jerry insists on keeping a ceramic lamp in the shape of a deer with a huge fluted lampshade with a large brown velvet bow on it that belonged to his grandparents. And a faded red plaid chair with an ottoman that needs refinishing. What a woman won't do for the love of a man...
Posted by: Linda | Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 04:50 PM
She gets full points. That is good-wifery on a level nonpareil.
Posted by: Mark | Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 05:23 PM
Ooooh! You've got the Anakin Force FX!
Declan's going to love that in about another 3 or 4 years!
If the lightsaber survives him long enough, you'll have to get another for baby #2 so they can wage "mock" battles. My lightsabers ended up in the swimming pool a couple times too many and stopped glowing and shorted out the motion-sensor sound effects; and that was *before* they cracked the blades in half. (Detail: mine were *not* the sophisticated Force FX replicas ... they were considerably cheaper!)
Santa brought us ...er ...I mean, brought my son ... an authentic Darth Vader helmet with voice modulation for Christmas though!
Posted by: Jim | Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 08:29 PM
I should never have taken you to that first Star Wars triple feature downtown. I never thought that it would go this far.
Grampa
Posted by: Grampa | Thursday, 20 April 2006 at 05:41 PM