Kill the light.
May. 15th, 2017 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigo_rose99T: Kill the light!
me: No! I like the lamp!
T: Mangle the light!
me: No! I'm not going to mangle the light!
T: Internet shame the light?
me: Fine. I'll internet shame the light tomorrow. Happy now? I'm going to turn the light off.
So here we are. Shame on the lamp! Lamp, light, whatever. You get the idea.
me: No! I like the lamp!
T: Mangle the light!
me: No! I'm not going to mangle the light!
T: Internet shame the light?
me: Fine. I'll internet shame the light tomorrow. Happy now? I'm going to turn the light off.
So here we are. Shame on the lamp! Lamp, light, whatever. You get the idea.
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Date: 2017-05-16 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-05-16 04:39 pm (UTC)Back in high school, I hung out with a great guy who lived pretty close to school, so we'd go back to his house after school a lot. It was an older house with a furniture style best known as "eclectic" - nothing matched, but everything was comfortable and some of it was stylish, but all of it was in the browns and oranges of the '70s.
Sometime in the early '90's, my friend's mom got the idea to redo the living room/dining room areas more to her taste. The old shaggy brown carpet came up, and a new green carpet with shorter pile was installed. The furniture was replaced with modernist black leather chairs. The beaten old wooden tables were replaced with chrome and glass. One end table was made entirely of glass, with a clear top and each leg a different color of translucence. Your lamp would have been right at home with the green and the glass thing going on.
But for completeness' sake, I have to tell you about the dining room area. The far wall of the dining room was painted a lighter shade of green, so it was neither a match to the carpet nor to any of the furniture. And then every painting that she owned and was not otherwise already displayed was hung up on that wall. Mismatched frames, colors, sizes, styles were all displayed about 4-8 inches apart all up and down that wall. And for visual separation, between the edge of the dining area and the living room area, she put up a glass mobile of amorphous shapes and random colors.
And she was happy.
So, one time when my friend's mom was not home and I was sitting at the dining room table gazing upon the masterpiece of visual cacophony on the wall, I finally asked "So, what does your dad think of your mom's new decorations?"
"Dad loves to see mom happy. Also? Dad's completely color blind. All of this is grey to him."