I like to make cool things.

 I like to make cool things. I think I make the most amazing stuff on the planet. First of all, obvious! Check out these cool ghetto chairs! I have so far made three, and each one is different. I use wooden pallets to make them. So second, they represent A LOT of work. Pallets are a biotch to take apart.  The cool side of this is that you feel like a total badass while you are doing it. You get to use power tools, crowbars, hammers, and a really fantastic tool that is actually called a fubar. Using power tools and fubars makes you internally very awesome. This means that you feel awesome while you are doing it, and that mojo has the potential to make you externally awesome. It doesn't always work-I know quite a few power tool using DICKS-but power tools can add to your awesomeness if you use the mojo for good. Third, though they are heavy and hard to disassemble, pallets are a joy to work with. You end up with a pile of crazy funky cockeyed wood and you have to figure out how to get that wood to become something that needs to stand straight, be solid, and serve a particular function or two. You start with an idea of what you are going to make and how you are going to do it and the wood informs how the plan gets executed. That is why none of the chairs turn out the same way, even though you cut the same amount of wood into the prescribed lengths when you begin. (insert deep metaphor for the workings of the universe being by nature serendipitous here as it applies to your particular life situation-if you don't understand what I mean I suggest you spend some time looking into it)

By the way, I made the table in front of the chairs too, and did all the painting based on what free paint I had collected and what was playing on the radio when I started. Can you tell it was Bon Jovi?

Fourth is the coolest. The stuff I build is the living breathing incarnation of Donna Summer's "I Will Survive." For better or worse I spent a pretty big chunk of my life thus far with a particular person who was very willing to tell me what I could not do and how I was doing it wrong. Their communication of their opinion was very clear, took various forms, and was fairly constant. So I look at my chairs, furniture, and cool things that I've made and I see that I can do things. I can do cool things. I have good ideas and I can do stuff I never thought I would be able to do. I can have ideas, work through them, even if it makes a big mess, takes months, and I loose a couple of toenails doing it (I have since learned to always wear closed toed shoes when I do construction-only took two toenails to cement that idea into my brain). I can do things that make no sense in the beginning but turn out cool in the end. Why did I start dissembling shipping pallets to make furniture?
Because I can.