Have you ever had a project that you envisioned would be a project to out-do all other projects? A project that--if executed correctly--could be your personal Colosseum, your Mona Lisa, your Canon in D? I seem to have a lot of projects like that. My lofty plans, however, seem to be constantly thwarted by the fact that 1) They always involve something I'm inexperienced in, and 2) There's just so much other stuff to work on in life that it takes me a MIIILLLIIIOOONN years to finish!
This week, for example, I set out to build a rabbit hutch. Yeah. It's a little bit extreme even considering some of the crazy stuff I've decided to make in the past (ear-hats, anyone?) J-bug recently acquired a bunny named Oreo, though, and after convincing her it wouldn't fit in a hamster cage, I decided to make her a rabbit hutch.
This is what I envisioned:
This is what I had at the end of the day:
Tom Magliozzi of NPR's "Car Talk" once said that happiness equals reality minus expectations. But sometimes it is just SOOOOO hard for me to let go of that picture I have in my head of how I think life should work! Guess I need to keep working on that... In the mean time, though, it's a good thing I don't make rabbit hutches for a living :)
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