The (Pink) Elephant in the Room

My friend Sofia has one of the most generous hearts I have ever known. She is constantly thinking of what she can do for other people. Tanner and I are so fortunate to be some of the “other people”  in her life.

A friend of her mom was getting rid of a sofa set…for free. Sofia text messaged me one day and just nonchalantly asked me how our search for furniture was going. At the time of her text, we had (1) mattress set, (a few) bookcases, (1) fish tank, (1) TV set, and (1) office chair. Our walls looked fantastic, because we have a lot of awesome pictures to hang, but despite how awesome our new place looked, we still were sitting on the floor.  But that’s just how Sofia’s mind works. She sees people seated on the floor, and thinks of all the different ways she could find them a couch.

Within 42 hours of her text, we had a knock on our door and two strapping men (Devon and Nick, thanks!) delivering a free couch into our home. The best part about this couch, besides it not costing us a dime? No weird cat smells!

The issue we’re skirting for now, the “elephant in the room.” if you will, is that our couch is pink.
Tanner said it looked like it belonged in  brothel.
When I glared at him for that comment, he said, “No, it think it’s cool!”

 

Speaking of my husband, yesterday was his 29th birthday! I probably asked him a million times what he would like to do, because I don’t want to give him an excuse to say to anyone that he had a rotten birthday. So we slept in, had our air conditioner fixed, made a HUGE dinner, and he opened his presents. He went nuts over the belt buckle…for those of you who know him, it matches hs barrel of monkeys tattoo almost exactly. I also gave this an Optimus Prime key chain, just because he always picks it up at Walgreens but never buys it. Later on in the night when I asked him if he had the keys, he told me (in a husky Transformer’s voice) that “Optimus has the keys.”

After dinner, we went and saw the Incredible Hulk at the cheap theater with Sofia and Devon. After the movie, Devon and Tanner would respond to any statement with, “HULK SMASH.”

Well said, gentlement. Well said.