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Paraphrasing a famous saying, if you are not busy improving your home, it is busy falling apart. So my wife and I, though our usual consensus building process** have decided to redo my daughter's room. My wife offers me this bargain: Honey, if you get all the furniture out of the way, and put down plastic, and do all the taping, I will paint the room. Does anyone else sense that this is similar to saying "honey, if you marinate everything and chop everything in advance and do all the cleanup, I will cook dinner?"
Anyway, I took the deal, knowing that in fact my only real alternative to the offered bargain was the implied "or you could just do it all yourself."
** Marital consensus process:
Wife: What is you first priority for our next home project
me: I'd like to finally build that hobby room and studio
w: I think we need to fix up our daughter's bedroom
me: Or maybe we could fix up the patio
w: I think we need to fix up our daughter's bedroom
me: uh, okay, let's do the bedroom
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For those who don't know, Warren's wife Kate is truly one of the most creative and talented people around. And she has cojones. Quite a combo!! Good luck, my dear brother.
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Coyote little sis,
I certainly don't know them but it was assumed... no man in his right mind would post such a thing if there were not an equal relationship of talented people, inherently respectful of each other and filled with humor. I like to think that after 37 years of marriage I have something similar... and I would have agreed, via mutual "consensus," to do the daughter's bedroom first as well.
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