Monday, June 23, 2008

On becoming a pauper to sleep like a Queen


The highlight of my mix weather weekend (beautiful spurts of sunlight, intermingled with ridiculous thunderstorms) was the purchase of a beautiful chandelier for my ‘harem’ themed bedroom.

I spent all last night delighting in its majesty. Cranky Putz is well on her way to putting together her dream bed room. Only detail left is the over sized mirror, placed strategically in front of the bed, to do my make up ofcourse…..

The chandelier was installed courtesy of my dear fixer upper father. He arrived early to the chandelier’s first mangy cousin. It was an anorexic thing, who I thought would do the job saving me a cool $100. I got daddy dear to install it and we painstakingly hooked in each little crystal, only to find that we both didn’t love it.

Off we went to home depot, to get the real deal. The hot shottas of chandeliers; the queen bee. And we repeated the same process. It felt like putting together a snazzy Christmas tree, delicately hanging those intricate ornaments. Yet the end result was definitely worth the effort.

Later in the night, my dear family began to calculate how much I would owe them should they have been general contractors:
Cranky Pop: About $50 and hour, plus expenses
Cranky Brother: Plus delivery and gas
Cranky Mother: About $60 an hour for the dinner

A good thing that family debts can be re-paid in hugs and kisses.

12 comments:

Dee said...

no pic huh?

Pepper said...

yeah how u wicked suh

and yay for hugs and kisses...lol

Adrienne! said...

amazing.
your room looks so fabulous. like something out of a magazine. i love it.
i have a few questions for you about a new health/beauty product.
shoot me an e mail at
adrienne@matchstick.ca
and we can discuss.
thanks,
adrienne

Crankyputz said...

Adrieene, are you trying to sell me soemthing???

ruthibel said...

interstin pic, pepper. Brings other images to mind, lol...

oh, yeah, nice room.

Unknown said...

Well the reward of such hard work is wonderful isn't it!

Yeah we all love those over sized "make up" mirrors. lol!

Anonymous said...

So... your DAD helped you to set up that harem style bedroom? It looks irie. Send him to Cayman to help me out too nuh?

owen said...

I have this thing about complicated none functional equipment :|

Crankyputz said...

All: The pics is from google, Ill get you guys a real pic, once i've got the finished product,

MB: Hate to break it to you, but as Michael Jackson put it, Your "Looking at the Man in the Mirror"

Owen: I love how you put that...

that girl said...

please send me your email address. i had to make my blog private and i want you to be able to read it if you like...

Pepper said...

lol ruthibelle its only a pepper :P

gishungwa said...

Family the best loans board ever, can be repaid or un repaid over eternity LOL. Now i wish my family was near.