What’s orange, ten and half feet long, and weighs 48 lbs?

My husband woke me up in the middle of the night on Wednesday to whisper, “I bought a kayak.”  In my half-awake dream fog, I pictured this to be a far off thing, like it was a kayak on layaway or something.  Fear not, by the time I got home from work yesterday, there was a ten and half foot kayak in my living room.  A bright orange ten and half foot kayak, mind you.  One that does not fit around corners or in closets or even spare bathrooms.  So now I have a kayak living in my living room.  I feel like I’m on Friends.  I laughed a lot and then shook my head, because really, when you’re not using a kayak, all it does is take up room.  Pull out a tape measurer ten and a half feet and it makes you go, “uh oh.”  That’s my life.

The kayak makes my husband really happy though.  He wanted to take advantage of living by the beach, hence the purchase.  He bobbed around yesterday in the marina, saw seals, pelicans, and even two dolphins.  I’m jealous, and also annoyed by how orange it is.  So I’m making the kayak a little kayak cover.  Not the decor choice I had in mind, but life doesn’t always care about decor.

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