While you wait (and time flies) · 9:09pm Oct 11th, 2020
I'm not going to complain about having too much work (but I do).
When your time is short, you have to take the little things. For instance, I've had this one little poster that came with an AMT/Ertl model kit of the USS Enterprise, which I owned approximately a lifetime and change ago, that's been travelling with me in a cardboard tube since before the turn of the century (and I still get grumpy that I can say that without irony. oh well). I've been meaning to get it framed for most of that time, but I never quite had the... time. Or the money, or the space. Or the place to order a frame at a reasonable price.
I fixed that now. The frame arrived this morning, and up it went on my wall.
If you're curious, the model kit was destroyed in, I think, 1995, when an over-excited brother opened the door to my bedroom just a little bit too fast and knocked over a shelving unit, taking out a fair chunk of my collection. I did later get an old smoothie to replace it (the peak Enterprise kit at the time, so named because it didn't have pointless, random detail moulded into the hull), but never had the time to build the thing, and eventually had to give it away again.
It's an odd moment. You wouldn't think hanging a simple poster would have much import, but I've been holding on to this thing so long, promising myself that I'd get it framed, that it's taken on an almost totemic quality - as if achieving that is some big, important milestone in my life.
Of course, it isn't. It's just a poster, but it feels nice to finally get it mounted.
If nothing else, to me, this poster embodies all the joy and excitement, and the idealism of my youth, rolled (and slightly squashed) into one handy little artefact. I suppose, with all that's gone on this year, I needed a reminder that times can be better, and that, no matter how much some people try to convince you otherwise, it's okay to have hope and optimism for the future.
The satisfaction of finally doing so is almost palpable through your words.
Well said.
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If my satisfaction were any more palpable, it'd have censor bars.
Cherish yourself.
Cherish the wife.
Cherish the home.
Cherish the Jeep.