The Fan

Does your spouse own something that you wish very much to hide at the bottom of your DI box so that you can rid it from your life?  I do.  Jake brought lots of wonderful things into our marriage but one thing I wasn't too excited about was a little black fan.

I never liked that fan ever since the first time I saw it.  It was dirty; and it was small.  I asked Jake about throwing it away once but he dismissed my idea.  I didn't understand why he was so fond of it.  It's not like it moves a lot of air anyway!  But we kept it and I dutifully pack it every time we moved.  My feeling of dislike towards the fan slowly turned into something much stronger.  I started to hate it and so I always put it in the far back corner of a closet or under the bed to make sure that I won't have to lay my eyes upon it until our next move.  To be fair, we did use it a lot when we were at Stanford because our student apartment had no air conditioner.  There were lots of nights in the summer when Ethan and I drifted off to sleep to the sound of the little black fan whirring in the background.

We were playing in Ethan's bedroom this afternoon and I accidentally saw the fan in the closet.  Urgh!  It was a ghastly sight. The fan had gotten abhorrently dusty and gross through our (almost) four years of marriage.  I couldn't stand it anymore so I leapt up from the floor, grabbed the fan, and started cleaning it like a mad woman.  If it is going to stay with us for the rest of our lives then it's better for it to be clean!

Man did I clean that fan.  I got into all those little gaps.  I even used q tips to clean the spots where my fingers couldn't fit into.  Jake was surprised, to say the least, when he came home and found that I had cleaned the fan.  He asked me what it was that had possessed me to do such a thing.  I have no idea either but it sure felt good to have finally made peace with the ugly fan that he brought into my life four years ago.

And since I didn't take any pictures of the fan, here are a few snapshots from the day.

These squeaky eggs are Ethan's newest toys.  Aren't they adorable?

New sole protectors.

I took a picture of this ugly earth dog because it is actually one of Ethan's favorite toys.

It makes a really loud and clear rattle noise but it's just so dang ugly!

This toy company needs a new product designer!  Or maybe not, since the child loves it so much.

We hope that you're having a good week!  We are very much looking forward to the long weekend!