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tesla (original poster member #34697) posted at 2:45 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
Starting another part of my NB today: builder of playsets. The weather is good...I've read the directions a billion times. I have the local hardware store on speed-dial. I have an adult helper and I guess Teslet will serve as foreman. 
I can do this. I can build something and not have it fall apart...I hope.
Pictures of either an awesome playset or pile of rubble to follow. 
"Thou art the son and heir of a mongrel bitch." --King Lear
SouthernGal ( member #27315) posted at 2:46 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
Whooohoooo!
You got this, Tesla! We're looking forward to the pics!
BS (Me) XWH (him) M nearly 16 yrs
1 DD (teens)
D-day #1 12/09, #2 2/10
Divorced 10/6/10
gahurts ( member #33699) posted at 2:48 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
If the directions show pictures of a happy, smiling couple enjoying together time as they put the play set together then run quickly and buy extra beer. You will probably need it.
JK. Good luck!
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indominable will" - Mahatma Gandi
"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." - Aubrie
kernel ( member #27035) posted at 3:07 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
"On particularly rough days when I'm sure I can't possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100% and that's pretty good."
CharlieFoxtrot ( member #38010) posted at 3:09 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
**LUCK**
You got this, tesla! One step at a time 
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
dlmos ( member #36839) posted at 3:55 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
BH (32)
DS - 7, DD - 6
Divorced
wildbananas ( member #10552) posted at 4:26 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
You got this. 
Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light. ~ Yogi Bhajan
courageous ( member #34477) posted at 5:10 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
Good luck!
It will be so much more enjoyable because you put it together. I hope you have an easy time and that the instructions are in English.
Me: BW (in my 40's) Him: ExWH EA/PA with MOW coworker(also married). He ended up marrying his mistress.
nutmegkitty ( member #33882) posted at 5:11 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
Me - happy!
2 DDs
Very happily divorced from an NPD since 2013.
Sad in AZ ( member #24239) posted at 5:16 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
You've got this! Have fun while doing it. (Get Teslet a hard hat!)
You are important and you matter. Your feelings matter. Your voice matters. Your story matters. Your life matters. Always.
Me: FBS (no longer betrayed nor a spouse)-63
D-day: 2007 (two years before finding SI)
S: 6/2010; D: 3/2011
k94ever ( member #11176) posted at 5:37 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
Swingsets are easy.
You've got this in the bag and Teslet will LUUUURVE it and LUUUUURVE it even more because MOMMY BUILT IT FOR HIM!!!!!!!!!!
You got this girl.
k9
BS:61
WS: 53
Betrayed: 24 years
Affairs: 15 (2 lasted 3 months. Rest were ONS)
WS died: 16 May 2011
Do not stay in your hurt forever. Choose to move out of it.
FaithFool ( member #20150) posted at 5:51 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
You can do this!
I'm useless at assembling things myself.
DDay: June 15, 2008
Mistakenly married Mr. Superfreak
20 years of OWs, WTF?
Divorced Dec 26, 2011
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget
to sing in the lifeboats". -- Voltaire
bbee ( member #17840) posted at 6:52 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
I just hope it didn't come fron Ikea. 
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
All's Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene 1
Amazonia ( member #32810) posted at 7:04 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
You've got this!! And I'm looking forward to seeing photos of your handiwork.
"You yourself deserve your love and affection as much as anybody in the universe." -Buddha
"Let's face it, life is a crap shoot." -Sad in AZ
h0peless ( member #36697) posted at 7:13 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
That sounds like fun! Imagine the satisfaction you'll feel every time he plays on it knowing that you built it!
nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 7:48 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
With Teslet supervising? Piece of cake.
You can call me NIK
And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane
Survivor3512 ( member #37946) posted at 11:34 PM on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
Me (BS)- 36
Divorced
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Just keep swimming, just keep swimming- Dorie
tesla (original poster member #34697) posted at 1:19 AM on Monday, April 15th, 2013
Oh goodness. Fucking directions. I swear I had it right by all the diagrams just to discover that I had to switch and flip the corner posts 180 degrees....after the floor was on!! Luckily, I've played jenga before and was able to get everything fixed. Only set me back a couple of hours instead of dismantling the whole thing and starting from scratch.
Here's the progress...I'll try to get the roof on after work tomorrow.
"Thou art the son and heir of a mongrel bitch." --King Lear
nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 1:25 AM on Monday, April 15th, 2013
Woo hoo! Looks fabulous, Tesla. And look at the foreman up there, checking your work.
You can call me NIK
And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane
tesla (original poster member #34697) posted at 1:28 AM on Monday, April 15th, 2013
I know! Little stinker had a bag of cookies and wouldn't share!!!
"Thou art the son and heir of a mongrel bitch." --King Lear
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