Shades

Golden Week is finally over. My husband had ten consecutive holidays and I couldn’t do much of my private business. 
During GW, we wanted to do some household chores that we cannot do on ordinary days, such as cleaning the veranda, but after all we didn’t do anything on some pretext or other. Oh my! 

There was one thing that I could settle during GW. That’s finding shades. I’d been troubled with the choice between drapes or blinds for my living room. Now there is only lace curtains there, but we have to save electricity, especially in the summer, so I decided to prepare something like a shade. My living room is very hot with the evening sun shining in. On searching for one, I disagreed with my husband. He is a 'curtain person' but I am a 'blind person'. Actually, I’ve yearned for a blind, so I decided to replace the lace curtains with blinds. I never thought he would disagree with me, but he wouldn’t budge an inch. Umm, I was in a fix! I tried to send for a blinds catalog and take him a house with blinds. So he gradually got to like blinds and said that I could do what I like. I’d won! 

Well, how do you think how it turned out in the end? Ha-ha, I ordered curtains. When I went to a furniture showroom, I found beautiful curtains. I thought that this is it!