With that lengthy but necessary context given, here's one of my most current examples of how I simply make things way too complicated which ends up causing stress or simply adding one more thing to my already long to-do list which in turn adds CLUTTER to my over-taxed brain:
I have a lovely comforter on our bed with coordinating shams & extra large accent pillows. And yes, I'm one of those gals who loooooves & I mean loves having a fluffy bed with lots of layers & tons of various sized & shaped pillows {thud}. My husband is constantly kidding me about how if I add one more pillow to the bed it will eventually take him at least 30 minutes to take them off at night when getting ready to go to bed. Just last night we had another conflict while I was changing our sheets about me putting the pillowtop back on {thud} which he had taken off the bed while I was in the Middle East. (And why did he remove it? Because it makes him hot (insert whiny voice here). So, now I'm trying to figure out how I can keep the pillowtop on just my side without it looking wierd....& thus another dilemma & one more thing to think about {thud}. A normal person would probably just bag it up, take it to Goodwill, & be done with it but oh no, not me!)
Back to the subject at hand: ever since purchasing the bedding over 5 years ago, the extra large accent pillows have been a pain to deal with becasuse they have annoying albeit beautiful tassles on each corner which refuse to stay on. It would be over the top detail-wise (even for me!) to explain the way they were put on, so suffice it to say that almost without fail when making the bed or taking them off at night, a tassle or two would fall off. I would put them back on or Neal would supposedly fix them permanently or sometimes I'd just stick them in the nightstand so I didn't have to think about my imperfect pillows {thud}. Of course, every time I made the bed, I'd have to position the pillows correctly so the tassle-less corner or corners didn't show...which everyone knows would totally ruin "the look"! {thud, thud}
I was making my bed a few weeks ago before heading out for a Control Freaks job, and Tori, my BFF/business partner was waiting on me (so what else is new? she would say...again, all because of my lack of life simplicity!). I fussed aloud about the tassles once again as I made the bed {thud}, and she stated oh so simply, "Why don't you just take them to an alterations person? They could probably sew them so they'd stay on." Cha-ching! "Brilliant idea", I mused. She offered to take them for me to the place she uses. Even better! (I call Tori my "Girl Friday because she always seems to be taking things here & there, picking up this or that for me because I can never seem to get all my errands done.). Problem solved or so I thought.
After our job, we ran a few errands in Mint Hill (the town I live in) & I spotted an alterations place I hadn't tried, so we whipped in only to have the gal actually tell me I should be able to fix that myself & no matter how I explained it to her, she just kept saying in her cute little accent, "You can do, You can do." {thud x 10} So back to the car I walked with pillows in hand & a very annoying look on my face.
Tori had a hair appointment that day or the next...I can't quite remember, but the hairdresser is located right near the alterations place. So the perfect timing for her to drop off my increasingly time-consuming but oh so beautiful, tassle-less accent pillows. For some reason, she forgot to drop them off which eventually led to me taking them back & telling myself I would drop them off when I had my next haircut appointment {thud}(yes we go to the same girl...don't all BFFs do that???)
So with no minutes to spare, I was finally able to get to the alterations place yesterday right before my haircut. I anticipated a heavy weight being lifted momentarily as I handed over these beautiful, tassle-less & aggravating accent pillows. Definitely a wrong assumption on my part. The girl on the other side of the counter just looked at me with this very puzzled look and said in her cute little accent, "We cannot do." {thud}
It was about the time I reached my car with my 2 ton oh so beautiful, tassle-less, aggravating, annoying accent pillows in tow that I had a visual image in movie form scrolling through my mind's eye of all the brain-power, energy and time I had wasted on these pretty but totally unnecessary tassles! And suddenly, I saw with instant clarity how to solve this problem:
Remove the tassles!
Or more simply put:
Take a pair of scissors & cut those stupid little things off!!!
So what if the pillows had no tassles? They were still beautiful, I wouldn't be out any money for paying someone else to fix them (which I of course should have been able to do myself anyway or so I was told). So upon arriving back at home, I promptly retrieved my scissors & whacked the remaining tassles off. I then walked back to my bedroom, stuffed the inserts back into the cases and voila, problem truly & permanently solved!
The only thing now is....what to do with the 8 oh so beautiful tassles??? For now, they are in a baggie sitting on the dining room table headed for the upstairs closet where I keep things like this for who knows what.
As I wind this blog down, I'm pondering what the Word says about all this? The following scripture has just come to my mind which is reeeeally interesting since I've just started a small group study with a group of women and our topic of study is the fear of the Lord. Coincidence? Absolutely not.
"Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and turmoil with it." Proverbs 15:16
P.S. you might be wondering what all those {thud}s throughout this blog are? the heavy weight that kept getting piled on me as I continued to choose complicated over simple.
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