Long Time, No Post!

Apologies for being MIA. I just couldn't bear to go over to my mom's house recently. My dad would refer to trucks depositing new Army purchases at the house, and I would just stick my fingers in my ears and pretend like I didn't hear anything.

But Brad and I went over this weekend and both screamed Holy Mother of God when we saw the following:

Why is there a marble ALTAR covered with plants in the living room?! (The wood carving seems kind of temple like, too...I think my mom also got that from a thrift store, since it suddenly appeared one day, and not after a recent trip to Thailand or something). You might remember from previous posts that there's a skylight in the living room, and my mom is OBSESSED with placing her houseplants directly below it. She has bought at least 5 different pedestals/tables over the past few years, and she keeps swapping them out when she finds something bigger, better, and uglier at the Army.

Here's a sideview:

I'm in pain. The console table is also an Army purchase, as is the green patterned afghan on the couch in the background. I think my parents bought the painting at Fedco in the 70s. I know it's terrible, but I have a soft spot for it because I grew up with it. Unlike the other stuff.

So where, you wonder, did the glass tables that previously resided under the skylight go? Never fear, they just migrated to the next room:

Can you think of a more RANDOM arrangement of furniture?! The glass coffee/end tables are right up against the munchkin chairs, which are then pretty much right up against the piano. You can't get to the chairs. You will notice that the twin dolphins and the conchs have moved from the fireplace to the glass tables.

The conch shells are now filled with some cheap touristy shell necklaces that my mom purchased from some thrift store. She previously had the strands spilling out so it looked like the conch was vomiting. I think the current set-up is marginally less appalling.

In the background, you may have noticed the following bizarre structure:

My mom rearranged her stack of pots. The broken x-mas tree stand is still on the bottom, along with the pot and some random platters. I couldn't figure out what the thing on top was. My dad thought it was supposed to hold a plant, but it also looked like maybe it was a table with a missing top. I don't know. It looks like a ghetto Eiffel tower.