"pinterest is a virtual shit show of do-it-yourself fails and redneck crafts beautifully photographed to make one feel that they are making classy shit for their home. pinterest results in hours of letting fat accumulate on your ass while you "pin" weight watchers recipes and toddlers walking around tarred and feathered with glue and glitter." - me
there is one pin that when i saw it i immediately "repinned" it with a smile from ear-to-ear wondering in the back of my head (as i do with everything i see on pinterest) "why didn't i think of that?!" this pin actually evoked raw emotion from me - i immediately yearned for warm weather and shishkabobs marinating in the refrigerator. i imagined all of my friends and family gathered in a nantucket-ish backyard barbeque and we are all wearing crisp white linens, just standing around shitting out rainbows and unicorns. at one point, paula deen joins us with a robust "hey ya'll!" as her two flaming gay sons walk in with mouth-watering layered salads. here is the "pin" that made me title a money-saving envelope as "summer 2012":
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| You take a picnic table, remove one of the boards in the middle of the table and replace it with a gutter. Fill the gutter with ice, and you’ve got yourself a beverage cooler extraordinaire! Brilliant! |
later that evening on the way back from dinner i'm explaining to tj this brilliance i have stumbled upon. as i viewed this pin online, i was daydreaming about social elegance and food network stars. when tj clarified what i was asking his assistance for, the more realistic picture of this project dawned on me: there i am 7 months pregnant sweating my ass off holding a kid on my hip and filling our brand new beer-gutter up with some miller lite bottles while people look out their windows explaining to their children what a hillbilly is.
i took my earnest savings from the summer 2012 envelope and transferred it to the baby 2012 envelope and vowed to stop the pinsanity.
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