We’re having family drop in for a visit to enjoy the beautiful pollen-filled spring time in the Southwest. This, of course, requires a special level of house cleaning. Both guest rooms will be occupied and since these rooms don’t receive a lot of use during our regular life routines, they need some sprucing up for the level of hospitality you want your guests to experience.
One of the guest rooms, the “Green Room” (you guessed it), yep, its color theme (did I just write “color theme”?) is green, is my sports room and music room. All my tennis, golf, and training stuff is stored here and all of my guitars and assorted music stuff is there too. The Green Room gets a little more attention than the “Black Room”. This is Laura’s domain and is where all her gift wrapping stuff is. When Laura wraps ANY gift is it a museum-worthy piece of art. I kid you not. Whereas, after 40 years of wrapping various treasures mine resemble the result of an exercise for any creature without opposable thumbs.
Laura came back from our marathon road trip really sick, so I wanted to jump in and get these rooms in GOOD TO GO condition. Simple stuff, like new linens on the beds, dusting, vacuum, and the general once over. It was during these housekeeping exercises that I once again stumbled upon one of the great mysteries of the human condition – the abundance of pillows.
There are pillows of all sizes and shapes. There are pillows of all colors and textures. There are sleeping pillows, decorative pillows, and pillows that escape a description of function. There are pillows EVERYWHERE!
They seem to multiply in some bizarre genetic methodology that would stump even Francis Crick and James Watson (go ahead, Google them, I’ll wait…………).
I am befuddled by these pillows. I thought I understood the function of a pillow. I use two to sleep on and take three off our bed every night and then proceed to put them back on every morning. That’s just MY side of our bed. Now I’m good with the idea of design and the roll a pillow would play in bedroom creative decorum, but COME ON. What’s the appropriate number? I’m pretty sure that a combined 21 is a little high, like 106 degrees is a little high for the Jacuzzi. Is there some theorem that could be applied like the Pythagorean Theory or the Mean Value Theory?
I have made a living helping organizations understand and apply the principles of simplification and yet our pillows seem to expand like the Universe. Forget about comparing the grains of sand on our planet to the number of stars in the sky, I’m switching to a throw pillow scale.
I know this is a losing battle and in reality outside of driving me nuts, has little impact on the spinning of our globe, but come on . . . . .
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