So here's the deal, my life isn't incredibly busy, and I haven't gone off to any far away land, and nothing traumatic has happened, I just plain old have had nothing to tell everyone... until I realized that I did... today. So here I go.
I have a couple of friends who are conveniently as nerdy as I am, and are willing to put my nerdiest plans into action, and then make them better. A few weeks ago, I had the idea of making a fort. Like a real fort. Like twenty blankets stretched from couches to tables and chairs and shelves and harnessed all together with clamps and rope and heavy objects kinda fort, and then we would watch Harry Potter until we couldn't take it any more. And that was exactly what we did.
It took a good two hours, but by the time we were done, it wasn't a fort. It was a legitimate palace. Holy cow. I could have lived in that thing. The floor of the fort was covered with every pillow we could find, and the blankets we didn't need for the free standing 150 square foot fort. It was majestic. And then the idea hit us... since we are so good at this... why don't we make a business of it??
And the thought exploded. We would build forts for birthday parties and holidays... why not wedding receptions... Since I'm the one going into interior design, I would choose the blankets and pillows and what not, my engineer friend would plan out the structure, and my business friend would go into all of the advertising and business related things, and we would go around and build forts.... I mean honestly? Million dollar idea there. Patent in pending.
Now after that first fort, we have built other forts. The second one was a smaller fort and Disney movies. The most recent fort was the tallest fort we've ever made, and Star Wars. And that brings me to the light saber portion of this post.
Since my friend broke my light saber in battle (literally), he decided to be a good person and buy me a new one. So at the scene of the Star Wars fort, he gave me my new light saber, and this was followed by the three of us having a three way light saber battle, which is no simple matter in a household that contains six light sabers already. We each had two of them, and it really became apparent which light sabers were better for combat. The older models are much more sturdy than the newer, but the newer are more streamlined, and balanced, and go in and out easier. Someone using a newer model would never be able to beat an opponent with an older model by using just strength; but could easily beat them by quick jabs and swipes.
Either way though, I still came out of it with seven bruises on my stomach alone. I had lost my arms and legs about five times each, and died about ten times... but you know. They both died like twenty times so technically I won.
Anyway. So there you have it. Me and my friends are going to be millionaires in a few years... and what do we spend our free time doing? killing each other with light sabers. The world is a very odd place. :)
