By way of an explanation

On that short post I made yesterday evening:

Nothing terrible happened, but the thing is that I had one beer too many (I had two, as a matter of fact, and a glass of Retsina at my favourite round-the-corner-Greek-tavern) and I was so pissed at something that one of my colleagues had said earlier that day... And I know myself: When I post in that kind of mood, my thoughts come back to that post (and the being pissed) the whole night. And I didn't want that - I rather wanted to sleep. Hence, no post. :-)

I didn't sleep too well though, as I usually don't when I've had one beer too many. *sighs* Serves me right. Well, now I'm a little tired, but ready to go to work.

I'll write a post on work later this week or maybe during the weekend, because I have to say a lot about work. I love my job (and that's not meant in an ironic way, I really, really do) and I can go on and on about it *g*

Have a great day, everyone!

*hugs flist*

Blogging Challenge - Post #4

I'm a bit tired already (left the house at ~7.30am and returned a couple of minutes ago), but a deal is a deal - and so I post! :-D

Blogging Challenge #4: On The Picture That Isn't Crooked Anylonger

The Picture That Isn't Crooked Anylonger

About half a year after we moved into this flat (let me calculate... We moved here in April 2007, so we're talking about October 2007, circa), I bought a picture a friend of ours, who is an artist, made. It's a photograph of the ruin of a mosque near Tanger and it looks almost like a watercolour because he used a very special printing technique and very special paper etc. What you see is mostly a stone ruin (or: ruined stone walls, grass in the gaps and the faintest hint of blue on the inside of one of the archways (it may be a kind of reflection or faint paint, I'm not sure) - hell, I might take a picture later and post it along with this...

Anyway, said friend of ours came to visit and had some of his new works in his luggage, as he always has. We looked at the pics and liked that one so much that we instantly decided to buy it and asked M. if he was willing to sell it to us, which he was, so YAY!!!

The deal was (since I had more money in my bank account at that time) that I buy the picture and my husband was to have it framed and hang it to the wall in our living room. We'd even decided where we'd wanted to hang it as soon as we'd bought it. So all was well.

After about a year (we're talking October 2008) I bought a frame (it's just a stupid, cheap glass frame and I definitely have to buy a better one asap) that cost only a couple of Euro. But I really wanted to have the pic up the wall and I was a bit tired of waiting for my husband to have it framed.

It stood against the wall, framed, of course, because I put it in that silly frame, in my husband's office for another 6 months (est.). My husband then was asked a favour by another friend, who also is an artist and who wanted to do some kind of performance/installation-thing at yet another friend's art gallery - it was kind of an "open gallery thing", basically every artist who wanted could come and bring one piece of work and have it hung at the gallery at the evening of the performance, thus creating a "spontaneous exhibition" that would be showcast at the gallery for the next week.

The favour our friend asked of my husband was to be the "master of art hanging" on that evening. My husband agreed and hung about 150 pictures that night, hammer, nails and all.

Nobody at the gallery believed me, of course, when I told them that we had a picture at home that had been waiting for over one and a half years to be hung and was still waiting back then.

After I had teased my husband enough, he finally proceeded to hang our picture (without a water-level, of course!!! *headdesk* There were two nails! TWO NAILS!!! Even I would have used a water-level... Well, anyway.) this summer. No need to say it was OF COURSE crooked.

We had a terribly crooked picture hanging in our living room since summer 09.

*nods*

Till today.

*wibbles*

Because apparently my husband has FINALLY FIXED IT!!!


YAY!!!!

You can see the nails/hooks or whatever he used above the top of the frame now, but who THE EFF GIVES A DAMN ABOUT A LITTLE DETAIL LIKE THAT????

And that was that.

:-D

( Not Crooked!!! (Picture) )