I know I’m not the only one who leaves town for two weeks and comes home to this.
Right?
“OH! But it’s just an exercise bike and a weight bench!” you say.
Yes, it is an exercise bike and weight bench.
Hanging.
From.
My.
Ceiling. (and walls.)
And in case your worried about coming to my house and having an exercise bike fall from the sky and render you unconscious, don’t worry, it’s being held in by SIX BOLTS AND A CHAIN.
After seven years I’ve come to expect nothing less.
I’m so in love with someone so unbelievably odd.
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I guess I should explain the stuff hanging on the walls…it kind of explains why I’m not peeved about it.
Whilst I was gone he found a big cherry wood desk on CraigsList for $100. (a $1500 desk mind you.)
The desk is so huge it took over where the fancy “home gym” used to reside. It also left six enormous holes in my walls and knocked out a door jamb. *sigh*
He got it so that he could come home at night and have a place to be with his “girls” when he studies.
So instead of him being at school from 6am to midnight I get to have him home a few extra hours and in exchange I get to have sporting goods on my wall. Both of which he can reach quite easily (my baby is all kinds of strong) and uses regularly. And yes, this really was the last (not necessarily logical) place to put the stuff.
Did I mention I married a packrat? Because I totally did, despite trying to beat it out of him for the last seven years the pack rat has clung on tight and refuses to die.
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and um… is that Cody’s interpretation of Art?
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Okay… you have got to be the most understanding wife ever! I am sorry to admit that I think I would freak out. Thanks for being such a good example. 🙂
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I.Would.Be.SO.Pissed. You are a saint to see any kind of charm in this!
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Wow, that is surprising. How on earth does he use it if it’s tackled to the wall? Does it come off easily? Or is this exercise-inspired artwork? lol
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If it weren’t for the pictures – I wouldn’t believe it. How does it all work?
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WHOA! I am so confused. Does he use it while it is hanging there? Surely it isn’t suspended from your wall just to “get it out of the way”???
What the heck was your husband thinking?
The last time I left town without my husband the dog chewed up the carpet on my stairs…. I guess he was sad that I was gone. Next time, I hope he’s *sad* on a chew-toy!
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Ok so the question you didn’t answer is why… Does he think it looks cool? I think I would make my husband take it down immediately!! You are a better wife than I am for letting him leave it there!!
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BTW… I am a fellow Hoosier!! I live about 45 minutes north of Indianapolis!! I have been meaning to tell you that but I just keep forgetting!! But I am a born and raised Hoosier!!!
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Oh my. I’m sure there is a good reason for the “hanging from the walls and ceiling” part. Right? Right?
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is it weird of me that I don’t get it? Am I missing something….modern art?
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Suspended like that it looks like some kind of torture device or sex toy, no? ;P
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Hmmm. Is the stress of law school getting to him? Or he was just so incredibly lonely it made him crazy? Kind of like Jack Nicholson’s character in the Shining?
More questions — did he have help? I can’t imagine that was easy to do by himself!
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I take it that it does not fit under a bed or in a closet…the wall really is the next progression.
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I’m so lost… Is he seriously using that as a source of decoration?
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Ummmm….
Uhhhh….
WHAT?!?!?!
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Wow. Yeah, he’s really lucky to have you. I would have been soooo pissed. We’re talking no speaking, no food, no…..well, anything…..Pissed.
I have to admit that I really had to read this twice to understand it. You must have been shocked. You know that we’ll need a follow-up post to this.
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Updated!
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well…it is one beautiful desk…
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Can’t say I have ever come home to that. If I had, it wouldn’t be finished. The husband would have put three bolts in the wall and left it at that. He’s notorious for not following through on things.
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That’s pretty clever, actually. A good use of space. Maybe I can hire Cody to come get some of the crap off our floors because when Mads starts crawling, we are screeeeeeeewed.
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That’s um… very… creative! I’m the pack rat in this family. My husband leaves his crap everywhere, but when I tell him to organize it he just throws it all away. This is the guy that moved cross-country in his car… twice! While I had to have a small trailer, my car, and my parents car just to move to the neighboring state!
Welcome home, by the way!
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Wow.
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I’m so glad my husband isn’t a packrat for I am the exact opposite of a packrat.
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Holy Cow. Never seen that before.
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(um, i kind of think it looks a little bit cool. is that wrong?)
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Ummm yeah, that’s hideously unnacceptable.
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See, I knew there had to be an explanation!
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Greatest line ever: I’m so in love with someone so unbelievably odd.
I know how you feel 🙂 But it makes me so happy.
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that is the funniest thing i have ever seen.
ever.
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Am i the only person who thinks it looks kinda cool hung up there like that?
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You’re taking it way better than I would. I’d be, um, slightly irked.
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The bolts and chain I trust. The MV walls…not so much. 🙂
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This is too funny!!! Every time I leave my hubby by himself he always rearranges the house. I’m glad to see that it isn’t just my hubby 🙂
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Talk about resourceful! And cool desk your husband scored!
One question, is that right over your front entryway?
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Now that is just funny! Are you a freak in hiding?
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My paranoia makes me worry about that thing rendering you unconscious. If you say it’s safe, well, OK, I’ll trusy Cody’s handiwork.
The desk? Sweet & awwwwwww.
Welcome home!
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Glad you cleared things up. I read this earlier today and was totally confused. Now I get it. I think it’s rather ingenious of him. And I LOVE the desk. Gorgeous.
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It’s modern art!
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I think I would kill my hubby if I came home to that:)
You are a good wife!
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I…cannot…even…fathom.
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Yep, 12 years and still a packrat, I think it’s genetic. Pretty hysterical.
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I LOVE the desk and think that might make up for it but my paranoia would drive me insane. I’d be totally terrified of that thing falling! How did he even get it to hang there?!?!? Oh the mysteries.
Can’t you just store it in the garage? 😉
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It’s over our stairs to the upstairs, which is about seven feet from our front door. So unassuming people would never know what kind of people we are if they just came to the front door. Phew.
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It is THIS post that has made me add you to my g00gle reader and will make me pilfer through your archives. Hilarious … I love it!
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Okay, all those things I said to my husband about not having room to store anything? Um, I’ll shut up now.
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That’s KAY-RAY-ZEEEE!!! I’d be flipping out if I came home to that stuff bolted to my walls.
BUT, his good intentions with the desk sure are sweet! 🙂
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Yada, yada, yada, to the weird crap on the wall. It’s the UofU pennent on the wall I’m impressed with. Not BYU? WHOOHOO!
And PS. if you don’t see him whilst in law school, just wait until he starts working for that big law firm…he’ll stop existing.
Around about the 7-8 year mark (out of law school), you will get him back, but only because he is so burned out he’ll be a new depressed version of himself. But on a happy note, you get law loans paid off by about the 10 year mark. And he can be free to find a job where they don’t systematically suck out his life for 14 hours a day!
Do I sound jaded about all that?
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Yeah but that desk is GORGEOUS! Craig’s list never has anything like that here – stoopid craig’s list! Besides, think of it as modern art like those buildings with chairs on the side of them … you are one classy household to have that kind of avant guarde art going on!
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Is it art? Or storage? Either way, he is a lucky man. Because if my husband did that, he would be missing some man parts.
How is it you’re so patient with that? Go out and get yourself some feminist art of labias and stuff just to counteract the testosterone on those walls 😉
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Does he still use the equipment?
(My head is tilted trying to figure out the why)
If so, it would be a pain (and add lots of damage) to pull it off the wall every time–probably way more then the savings from craigslist.
Oh, wait, maybe that’s the exercise? Ah cheaper than a gym.
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