Super Powers

I realize this is a subject that I have covered before, that being, “If you could have any super power, what would it be?”.  At the time I wished that I had the power to allow people to see the world as it was rather  than as they perceived.  Today I need a new super power.  Today I need D to be able to see inside my mind.

Ok maybe not everything.  But I do wish he could see some of my ideas.  We have a light that we purchased a year ago that needs to be hung in the kitchen.  Originally we had the idea (encouraged by the lady at the lighting store) that track lighting over our island would be a solution.  A year later, it isn’t the solution.

Those who know me, know I need a bit of whimsy in every room.  However, whimsy can not take over the room.  In this case, the lights are the whimsy.  The track lighting, in a 176year old house is just WRONG!

So here we are a year later.  The lights are still wrapped in their box, in the dining room.  I have imagined them suspended from driftwood, a weathered branch, a rake (yah that was just silly), a weathered post, a lobster trap (although really cool, the look on D’s face just now suggests that isn’t going to happen) and an apple orchard ladder.

When I suggest these ideas, he says, “Draw me a picture.”

I look back at him and say, “Seriously?  I can’t show you what’s going on in my head that can make any kind of sense to you.” But today he claims I have super powers.  They start in my eyes, go to my brain, run down my cheek to my neck and arm and poof in some kind of magic at my fingertips with the assistance of a magic pen make all things clear between my idea and his buying into it.

Like the rake….that’s just plain silly.  So the lights remain in the box, at least until I convince him the lobster trap is doable.