Crazy Artist Husband

Sometimes Husband Bear goes into crazy artist husband mode. Imagine Dexter from Dexter's Lab but replace all the beakers of goo with a mac computer and photoshop. He can't focus on anything else besides getting his work finished and his mind is reeling with ways to fix things or change them. Yesterday Andrew was putting together his final which is a type specimen booklet about a typeface called Bauhaus. He spent lots and lots of hours and a good amount of money on printing and decorating it. He realized he didn't have a distinction between the front or back so he got kinda crazy. Right then and there he should have spent a dollar to have the cover reprinted and bound with a new printed cover. He actually went looking for a dry transfer pen to do some magic with. After going to one store and calling many others, he bought some transfer paper since he couldn't find one. Long story short, he messed up the cover (even cut a whole in it) trying to refix and refix things. He got pretty sad about it and will probably reprint and bind the whole cover.

I love my crazy artist husband if not simply for the fact that he teaches me to make things happen and not get overwhelmed with the effort it takes to make those things happen. He is so persistent in getting his art exactly how he envisions it. When we were engaged, he told me that he wanted to take a piano in the woods for our engagement pictures. My brain reacted right away by telling him what he had to do to make that happen and how much work it would be. I don't have his vision and determination to make things happen. It upset him that I didn't believe in his ability to do a hard task. He told me that he has pulled off way harder things in the past. I decided to always believe in his vision and capabilities.

My crazy artist husband reminds me to make things happen in my life and calms me when I get overwhelmed with the idea of accomplishing them. He completes me in that sphere of life.