Saturday Night Home Improvement
She Said: In my restless youth, I never thought I would realize the simple joys of staying home. Friday and Saturday nights used to be for going out and partying with friends, which I still occasionally do. But now there's nothing I enjoy more than spending the night in with my husband.
We had the greatest weekend. After a low-key Friday night of movies and Guinness, we spent Saturday running errands. Errands were never as much fun alone as they are with Tony. We went to Target in search of a few specific items. We didn't find what we were looking for, and we somehow ended up trying on almost all the sunglasses in the store and each bought a pair we liked. Hungry and thirsty, we headed over to Lost Coast Brewery for some good food and beer. We lingered over a nice lunch and a few pints, then contributed a little more to the local economy before returning home.
Who needs to go out to have a great time? We cracked open a couple more beers, put on some music and got to work resurrecting our old entertainment center as shelving. This is the true meaning of conservation of resources. This thing was sitting in one of our spare bedrooms, waiting for us to get around to listing it in the classifieds. It's not the greatest piece of furniture, and has endured some wear and tear. We may have gotten $10 for it--$15 if we were lucky. In the meantime, we would have spent three or four times that amount on new materials to put much-needed shelves in our storage-lacking laundry room.
This was fun! Beer and power tools! Good music and time spent with my favorite person. We accomplished something that will greatly improve our quality of life for as long as we live in that house: we created space.