Fun Monday #26
Angela over at The Lurchers is the host for this Fun Monday. Her assignment is.....
So continuing in the spirit of "being interested in people", I would like to know, or see, what's on, in or under your bedside table! So open those draws and bare your soul to us! Is there anything special there that has a story or a memory that you can tell us about? Books that you keep there to delve into from time to time? Trinkets that you don't know where else to put? Let's see!
I'm sorry but I couldn't help laughing at this assignment. And only because I happen to have some friends who keep some pretty interesting things in their bedside table. But maybe I just hang with pervs. I'm sure none of the fine upstanding participants of Fun Monday would have those kinds of things in their nightstands. Nightstands. I've never heard it called a bedside table before but either way, it's a good thing none of my pervy friends blog or there might be a few blushing Fun Mondayers.
And after that we now move on to my nightstand below. We have two nightstands, one for each side of the bed which I think is pretty standard in most homes. With Gregg hardly ever home I get both nightstands to myself which isn't anything special because I barely have enough things to fill one nightstand little own two. On this nightstand I have the phone/alarm clock and the remote control for the tv. And you can't see them because they're specially made to fit my ears and made out of silicone so they're hard to see, but there are ear plugs beside the remote control. Why are there ear plugs? Because if the dog is downstairs and completely on the opposite side of the house....and farts? I hear him and wake up wondering what the hell all the noise is about. Let's just say I'm an insanely light sleeper.
99% of the furniture in our home has either been handed down or is used furniture. The bedroom furniture were from friends of ours who were moving into their big new million dollar home and didn't want their old furniture. The great thing about millionaires is when they want to get rid of things they sell it real cheap. And since we are not millionaires we like to buy real cheap so it was a perfect deal. The lamps I found and fell in love with at an antique shop and each lamp weighs about a hundred pounds. Ok not really but those suckers are heavy. This room needs some 'major' renovations done to it so that's why the walls are such a boring color and there are no pictures.
The picture below is inside the top drawer of this nightstand and it holds dust along with photography magazines and a sewing book I thought I had lost. Note to self....get on with buying new sewing machine already so you can use those cool new sewing books you bought ages ago.
Next picture is the second drawer to the nightstand and it holds dust and Part One and Two of Season Six of the Sopranos. I like to go to bed with Tony. Wait a minute. I like to go to bed with Tony by my side. Wait that's still not right. Oh never mind. I also see the coil bound Christmas Card List book I thought I threw out and then there are two CD's...one U2 and one Barenaked Ladies. Underneath everything is an extension cord and there should be a heating pad in there but bloody hell if I don't see someone took it out.
So there you have it. Completely dull and boring just like me.
Hi Joy, all pretty normal and innocent there, I've been trying to think of an obscure reason that calculator might have been in my nightstand... I'm still clueless though.
Posted by: Peter | January 28, 2008 at 03:47 AM
Okay..........well, I just couldn't get past the lamp!!! That is awesome! so, so pretty.
My fun monday is shared. Won't you drop by sometime? I love visitors!
Posted by: Hootin' Anni | January 28, 2008 at 03:56 AM
OMG!! I never gave a thought to THAT kind of thing in bedside tables!! *falls off chair laughing* I wonder if anyone will own up to having any in theirs!!
Posted by: Aoj & The Lurchers | January 28, 2008 at 04:31 AM
I like the lamp. Is that snow out your window?
Posted by: Cynthia | January 28, 2008 at 04:52 AM
well, golly. not boring. just tidy. which is probably better than being a slob like yours truly.
Posted by: laurie | January 28, 2008 at 05:41 AM
Your room looks very elegant. The lamp is wonderful. Is that snow I see out the window?
Posted by: ellen b | January 28, 2008 at 06:26 AM
Beautiful lamp! If you look back at mine you see where I had a bottle of which I didn't speak of. LOL! I think you get the picture. :)
Posted by: kitten (Katie) | January 28, 2008 at 06:29 AM
those lamps are gorgeous!!!
btw-- my very close friend just got the first season of the Tudors!!! I can't wait to steal it from her!!!!
Posted by: frannie | January 28, 2008 at 06:35 AM
Gorgeous lamp! I, too, have occasionally found things next to the bed that have gone missing for a while. Hope you find your heating pad!
Posted by: Sieglinde | January 28, 2008 at 07:04 AM
Yeah, I am hoping everyone participating has only tame things as well. :) I LOVE your lamps! I don't think you're dull and boring at all. :) I think you just tucked the exiciting things over on Gregg's side. :)
Posted by: Lisa's Chaos | January 28, 2008 at 07:05 AM
I love the lamp...and it's reflection. Snow outside?
We know you aren't dull and boring ! Heavens to Betsy. Everyone knows the exciting stuff is tucked away UNDER the BED.
Posted by: Swampy | January 28, 2008 at 07:07 AM
Oh yes I LOVE your lamps! I like the music in your drawer. umm... I have something in common with your friends!
Posted by: kaytabug | January 28, 2008 at 07:28 AM
Oh man, I love that lamp!
Posted by: Mahala | January 28, 2008 at 08:29 AM
Like everyone else, I think the lamp is gorgeous.
You need to educate your friends. Naughty things don't go into the nightstand where children can find them. Naughty things go into a box underneath the bed. Geez.
Posted by: kaycie | January 28, 2008 at 08:39 AM
I LOVE that lamp. (Note to self: such a beautiful lamp would be immediately destroyed by a whippet tail.....can not have such beauty in my house.)
Posted by: Celeste | January 28, 2008 at 08:57 AM
The lamp really caught my eye. Now I want to see the rest of the room. Hope you find the heating pad.
Posted by: Kathy b | January 28, 2008 at 09:06 AM
I have lamps similar to that in my living room. I like the colors they provide. Of course, my kids have knocked mine over a time or two.
Posted by: Beckie | January 28, 2008 at 09:53 AM
Wish I had rich friends who sold god stuff cheap, all my stuff is wearing out!! I love the lamp, it is really beautiful. Your drawers are very neat~ I would soon have those filled!
Posted by: chrisb | January 28, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Your lamp is to die for!!! I almost didn't do Fun Monday today...my side table is so boring...and I also laughed when I saw today's assignment I guess we have some similar friends!!
Posted by: Heather | January 28, 2008 at 10:20 AM
I love your lamp! And I'll admit, I'm one of those people who'd have to either own up to keeping er... certain things in her bedstand or who would have to remove them before taking the pictures.
Luckily, I don't participate in Fun Monday, so I don't have to own up to anything! ;)
Posted by: Catwoman | January 28, 2008 at 10:42 AM
OK, the lamps are the bomb. Since my "kids" are practically ancient, in their late 30's, I don't worry about the "naughties", but They're not in me bedside table, but close by, too.
Posted by: Jan | January 28, 2008 at 11:04 AM
hmm i guess i'm a perv? its all my husbands fault. he seemed to think we needed some sexual education as we were both virgins.. yeah. so i guess i'm a perv. although kaycie's are under the bed, and we dont have kids so i guess that's good enough.
and YOU have bare naked ladies in your nightstand? jeez. naked ladies? that's pervy enough.. just kidding..
Posted by: jill | January 28, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Yes, you win the most beautiful bedside lamp prize and what a find you have. I keep reading these bedside table posts hoping to run into some of your friskier friends!
Posted by: Faye | January 28, 2008 at 11:22 AM
Oh my gosh, I have serious lamp envy! Those are absolutely gorgeous!
Posted by: Sandy | January 28, 2008 at 11:28 AM
I can see why you fell for those lamps! Gorgeous!
Posted by: nikki | January 28, 2008 at 11:30 AM