Everyone knows that you don't leave (people that act like) small children unattended for 15 hours a day - 12 or 13 MAX. Case and point? Here are some things that I have previously thought were good ideas when left to my own devices (SOME of these incidences took place after the influence of alcohol, but MOST didn't):
- I almost caught (ok did, but just a little bit) the microwave on fire after deciding to have a 'peep party' in which I arranged an entire box of Christmas peeps like the nativity in the microwave to watch them blow up. (I didn't have a baby Jesus so I had to use the stump of a Christmas tree (Jesus was a carpenter, and an alien) but the Snowmen made really good sheep.)
- Marshmallow baseball and marshmallow badminton. Both involved a living room, marshmallows, and several frying pans of varying sizes.
- Summer sledding. Here's how it works: take your bad roommate's mattress and duct tape a couple skate boards to it, then find the biggest hill you can. Safety equipment is optional since you're already on a mattress.
- I thought making cookie dough egg rolls were a good idea and got a kitchen towel to smoke from the bubbling hot oil - oh WAIT, that was actually Kyle...
THEN I GOT A BRILLIANT IDEA!!
I built a fort! It took me like 4 hours to get all the boxes emptied out, cut up, taped together, set upright, and put together.
Here's what it looked like before:
And this is what it looked like after:
Don't look at my dirty house is. You know I can't clean it because half the furniture in the place isn't ours and even if it was all ours I still need to go back to Ikea to get more places to put all the crap that is. Plus, honestly, I don't have to worry about friends stopping by...I don't have any of those.
Do you notice the drawbridge laying on the floor? I haven't quite figured out how to get it to 'draw ' yet, right now it's just a bridge...
Can you see the little tv behind the boxes? That's like a 45" tv...I would have kept going but I ran out of packing tape (the packing tape my mom bought Kyle for Christmas to move).
And this is my battle scar - the only thing worse then a paper cut under your fingernail is a cardboard cut under your fingernail.
I probably won't get to work on it tomorrow. I have to go to the post to mail a bunch of things and go to the Rieseburo to get our train tickets for this weekend, and actually pack for this weekend...we're going to Geneva (Swiss spelling: Geneve) since Kyle has ANOTHER day off on Monday.So, with any luck I'll get to work on it some more on Tuesday. Things still left to do (I may add more later):
- Get the drawbridge to draw
- Create the center sculpture for the garden
- Add some detail to the exterior with the markers I'm going to buy (I would have done it today but the only markers I had are my scrapbooking markers - there was no way I was going to use my $20 a box acid free markers to draw on some cardboard that's eventually going to get torched; probably by Kyle)
- Create a moat with lazer beam sharks
- Build some more look out posts so that the castle can be fortified (it's not just for your breakfast cereal folks) against invasion from all sides
- Find a way to keep my wonderful fort, yet hid it, for when the temp furniture people come to take away all of their stuff. I don't want them to think I'm crazy or that I have too much free time...ok, you're right. We all know that I am BOTH crazy and currently do have too much free time.
Do you see this!?! I drank this all day to keep my energy up. It's some 'Cola Light' from the great country of Italy. Yes, you read the bottle correctly; it has a 'real American taste'. Now 57% more American!
2 comments:
Awesome fort. Good choice of activities.
anxiously awaiting updated views of the fort.
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