Everything I needed to know, I learned from my couch….

Yes, it's a take off of Robert Fulgham's Kindergarten list. There's a *reason* there are so many of these lists out there……I don't know exactly what "it" factor it has, but it has "it"

Anyway…..

forget measure twice, cut once….I'd rather not have to cut a couch at all. BUT I did, and I have pictures to prove it.

Couches are not like Humpty Dumpty, they can be put together again….just like the pieces of our lives that are seemingly impossible at the moment. Time and perspective are great puzzle solvers.

Brain vs Brawn? I'm still not sure on this one, but quitting would have left me couchless, out of money and with a couch on a curb with no apparent disposal options.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Sometimes you cannot get a rectangular object through a series of other seemingly bigger rectangle openings….. reminding me of the importance of angles, vectors and other such shit I thought I didn't need to know in high school.

It is possible to punch large holes in plaster with the arm of the couch with a lot of pressure over time…….. and sometimes no matter how hard we try, sometimes effort and will are just not enough….and no matter how hard you try, if it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit. Will, desire, intelligence and strength be damned. Really, sometimes things really just do not fit.

I really don't give up easily.

I can take apart and reassemble a back from the couch. I'm still kinda impressed about that……..we all have talents that are hidden even from ourselves.

There may be more than one way to skin a cat ----- but I'm sure as hell glad I don't have to! There are also many ways to move large pieces of furniture through multiple hallways and openings…..and sometimes the first 35 don't work. I'm sure as hell glad I don't have to do this again for at least….a day? lol.

It took me something like 4 or 5 days to get this couch through this particular doorway. Sometimes, solutions comes way after the desired deadline…and you know what, things are still okay. Not ideal, but okay.

If I had to do it all over again-----I'm seriously considering inflatable models.