ADJUST, ADAPT, ACCEPT (THAT LIFE COMES WITH CRAP)

or How To Make Something Good Out Of Something You Can't Rid Of

“You know… like our marriage.”

Shannon barely managed to avoid stumbling over her own words as she rushed to get them out.

I had been sitting at my desk in my housecoat for about 45 minutes staring at a blank screen.
In fact, I’m still sitting there right now but the screen is slightly less blank.

There are things I wish to write about and those things get put through a filter in my head that I call the Do You Like Being Able To Pay Your Mortgage or What filter. So, in a purely fiscally driven decision, sometimes those things get put aside for the time being in an effort to cooldown or ferment into a delicious homebrewed Fuck It cocktail.

Either result is the right one.

Back to Shannon’s zinger masterpiece.

I had been sitting waiting for ways to not write about what I wanted to write about when Shannon reminded me that we had spent the day yesterday digging up soil and shifting bricks that we no longer had use for after some concrete work that we had done.

After the sixth bin full of heavier than the heaviest thing dirt, I realized that getting these bins into my car and to the landfill was not feasible. Something would have to be done with the dirt here on site. Full of concrete, rocks and brick, the dirt wasn’t useable for a garden, so what use then?

I looked at where I had been storing our yard waste bins and it came to me.
The bins had been sitting on the ground next to our house.
If I used the dirt and some leftover bricks I could fashion a new base for them.
Then the bins would be… higher?
Higher is good isn’t it?

I set about constructing what turned out to be a lovely bricked patio foundation for our yard waste bins that will withstand the test of time and the elements up to a light misty rain.

I admit, it’s not the best structure ever built but it looks nice and it turned a negative into a positive.

So, what’s the lesson here?
I think it’s that there may be things that you encounter as negatives in life but there’s almost always a way to get something positive out of them.

You adjust your plans and make something positive.
You adapt your plans and make something positive.
You accept that life comes with crap and you sometimes just have to get on with making things better so stop whining and wasting your energy on being irate and get to work.

That last sentence may be directed entirely at me but if you can use it on you, feel free.

“You should write about how you used crap you can’t get rid of to make something good,” said Shannon.

“You know… like our marriage.”

She was very pleased with herself. Deservedly so.
Shannon is the looks and the brains in this show and she knows it.

I didn’t need to ask, it was assumed that I was the crap that she can’t get rid of.

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(Not Pictured: Author hides inside home and takes picture of person with actual construction knowledge)

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