I need help from all 1 or 2 of you who read this. The time has come to do something with the chouch. What is a chouch? you may ask yourself. A chouch is an interesting piece of furniture that is something between the size of a chair and a couch. I have posted a poll on the side of my blog to help us make this important decision.I know it is important to make informed decisions, so I will give you a not-so-brief timeline of the life of the chouch.
- May 2002: Newlyweds Sean and Katy decide that they, like their neighborhood buddies, can upholster a piece of furniture with just some fabric, scissors, and a staple gun (the best part, by the way).
- Sep 2002: Sean and Katy finally get around to tearing off the old fabric and then buying and measuring new red and brown fabric purchased in some kind of exhaustion-induced psychotic episode. Chouch is reupholstered.
- Sep 2002: Sean is immediately impressed. Katy values the experience more than the chouch.
- Feb 2004: Sean and Katy move the chouch for the first time. Katy suggests getting rid of the chouch since their new apartment is extremely small. The chouch comes to the new apartment.
- May 2006: Sean and Katy move again. The chouch comes. The once-brilliant red and beige has faded to some kind of burgandy and dirt.
- 5 Oct 2008: Sean and Katy prepare to move again. Katy suggests that the chouch has seen better days and should be retired to D.I. The chouch prepares to be moved again.
- 15 Oct 2008: Katy asks a nice guy who is helping them move to light the chouch on fire. He laughs and puts the chouch in the moving truck. She was not joking.
- 16 Oct 2008: Dan, helping Sean and Katy to shuffle things on the very top to save space, inadvertantly steps on the underside of the chouch, tearing a hole. The chouch remains in the moving truck and is moved 2000 miles cross-country.
- 25 Oct 2008: Katy arrives at the new apartment, which smells like a potpourri of a pet store, smoke, and mildew.
- 27 Oct 2008: The chouch is moved AGAIN! to a new and significantly less-smelly townhome. Katy and her mom quickly organize the living room so that there is no place for the chouch.
- 1 Nov 2008: Katy notices that the chouch has retained some of the old apartment's smells. Sean sprays the chouch with Febreeze.
- Nov 2008: Sean brings the chouch upstairs to his and KATY'S BEDROOM! It doesn't fit in the door. Sean breaks the legs of the chouch to make it fit, and then fixes them once he has put the offensive object in his and KATY'S BEDROOM!
- Nov - Dec 2008: Katy gasps for air everytime she comes into her febreeze-drenched, chouch-filled room.
- 15 Dec 2008: Sean suggests that we should "do something" about the chouch. Katy votes to burn it. She gets a dirty look, but was (once again) not kidding.
6 comments:
Now Katy...I voted to burn it, But I think you should first let everyone hack away at it until it is just pieces of firewood....kids of all ages love to be let loose to destroy things.....
Oh my goodness that was so fun to read. It has been too long, I miss you guys!
I think letting the kids "hack away at it" sounds like a very fun Southern way to dispose of it, but then you couldn’t burn it you would need to leave it in your yard for a while. And maybe let the local animals hibernate in it for a season or two. Im sorry did I offend anyone with that comment; I say it with affection having lived in the south for a year & a half.
I agree with angela - that was a fun read. I am first impressed that you all reupholstered it. Wow that is ambition! Because I wouldn't want to have to clean it up I would just light it in a pit- no hacking involved.
It would seem that my son is attached to the chouch for some strange reason -maybe memories - maybe he doesn't want to spend the money replacing it with something new (I am leaning towards the later).I have a box of his toys downstairs, he doesn't let go of things easily (a good attribute most of the time).
I say "make" a new memory with him and donate or burn the chouch,
That was too funny to read! I loved it. :) Anyway, I vote it has seen the last of it's days.
You are so funny! This post brings back so many good memories of the lovely 'chouch' crammed into that tiny apartment! What fun times those were! How I miss sitting out on our porch and letting the kiddos play while we got to chat for hours! :) Ahhhh, the good ol' days!
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