People are right. It is hard to build a house. Even once you've got it built, you're constantly trying to tweak it. Change the windows, put in new carpeting, knock this wall down, knock that wall down, put that wall up, add stairs here, add a window there, push the yard back further, bring the yard in, paint the outside, paint the inside, add a garage, fill the garage with boxes so you have to add a driveway for the cars. It can sometimes seem like the house just isn't right. Sometime you can work so hard on it that all you see anymore are the individual corrections you've made, but not the house as a whole anymore. You see the scratches in the paint over there, the new floorboard in the hallway, the patched roof, the basketball hoop in the back yard. You see all the changes, one piled on top of the other, but just don't recognize the house anymore. And the harder you try to make it into the house you've dreamed of, the more it takes another shape. It is at this point that you realize that only thing left to do is knock the foundation out from under it and start over again.
I'm not saying this is what you should do or what one should always do. I'm just saying that sometimes it's the only thing left to do.
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My house is pretty new and there are always a ton of thing that need to be done. There is no way will we do any of the sorts of major alterations like you've just mentioned but the little things seem to be enough anyways. Also, I'm too lazy to even google the meaning of veintitres.
it's spanish for 23. i would like to see your house again. mainly because that would mean that i would be visiting you guys. i look forward to having a house one day to put my personal touches on. like an indoor basketball hoop or soccer goal or really big fridge or something. oh yeah, i dream big.
congrats on being a graduate... again. 2008 is the year to graduate, i have heard, so i will soon follow suite (and by soon i mean december, since i'll be too late for a summer graduation by the time all my grades transfer from hannover). by then, the cubs will have also snapped their 100-year curse and will have won the "world" series.
i'm listening to a song right now and the guy is saying "i will possess your heart." what does that make you think of? my mind is mush at the moment, but all i can think is that it sounds like a really really hard task, to possess someone's heart, and i'm not even sure what that entails.
veintitres?? cool!!
miss you alot
victor!!
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