Antiquing When You Don't Need Nothin'!!!

I thought I had

no more room in my house!!!!!

Not a smidgen of an inch.................

Boy was I wrong!

Two years ago, I bought a tilting computer rolling table for my laptop.

(it's the table under the stack of newspapers.....)

I envisioned sitting in my club chair and typing away.....

I couldn't hold the computer on my lap

(even though it's a laptop)

because it was causing my hip muscles to ache.

I have one big laptop.

very big.

it's large.

and heavy.

Big!

Before I bought my ipad, I used to sit for hours with my laptop in my lap.

(sounds like a song.....)

I developed pain on the top of my pelvis,

what I refer to as my hips.....

I mean, when the clothing guy measures me, he measures across the curvy place just below my waist.

(that is, if I had a waist, which I don't)

(I kind of go straight down.)

And while I'm being brutally honest, I don't go to no clothing guy neither.

I don't need one for alterations to my sweat pants and T-shirts.

(where was I????)

oh yeah, my hips hurt.....

So, I thought I was going to need a hip replacement or something!!!!!

I was in pain all the time!!!!!

(I am a trouper.....and a big baby.....)

So I was trying to explain my pain,

(that rhymes!!!!)

to my doctor sister, Nancy.....

That's when I found out that "hip" problems, are supposed to be about the hips!!!!!

Which are joints!!!!!

Which are not just below the waist (if you have a waist)!!!!!

Soooooooo.....

I started scratching my head, and trying to figure out just....

what the hell was my problem, anyway?????

What had changed in the past year?????
That's when I realized that I had bought a new laptop, that I used

 all the time, 

and held on my lap.

Hummmmm.....

interesting.....

maybe I don't need a hip replacement.....

maybe I need a brain replacement!!!!!

So I decided to try an experiment.

I bought myself an ipad, and used that on my lap instead.

Within a month 

THE PAIN DISAPPEARED!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am #$% brilliant.

So this story is about my computer table, which I bought before I figured out that I didn't need one.......

So I didn't need the ugly computer table.....

Only problem was.....

I now had become addicted to having a surface on which to dump 

my newspapers and magazines and other stuff.

So, moving in my quick as lightning manner.....

I lived with this for two years.

Sooooooo.....

Weekend before last, I went to the local antique show that my buddy Connie and I go to each year.

Sometimes Fran comes along with us, but I don't need to tell you that, 

'cuz you don't know who she is, so you probably don't care.

Sorry Fran.

Anyway.....

I went with them, because Connie is always on the lookout for 

something.....

a little of this.....

a little of that......

So I go along just for the hell of it.

BUT I DON'T NEED ANYTHING!!!!

MY HOUSE IS FULL!!!!!

COMPLETELY DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least that was what I thought.

And then I found the perfect solution to my ugly computer table problem!!!!!

Two nesting tables that look like water lily leaves.

I tried to buy just one, but the lady wasn't having 

NONE OF THAT SILLINESS....

Boy am I glad she refused, because the two together function perfectly!!!!!

I love having two levels...

These tables tuck in next to my chair, are just the right size and height, and I love their style.

I couldn't have found anything better, if I had actually been looking for it!!!!!

I thought that I would repaint them.....

But then I thought.....

WHAT ARE YOU CRAZY?????

I try to make stuff look old and beat up when I repaint it.....

These are already old and beat up!!!!!

They look just fine the way they are.....

so for now,

I am leaving them in their glorious dilapidated state...

Working hard for me, and banishing the ugly computer table, that I put out with the trash, 

and someone scooped up (as I knew they would).

Don't you just love that stuff gets recycled when you put it out with the trash?????

On that note.

Later, Gator