Happy Holidays to all SOIDs Everywhere!
We at SOIDs International wish you a joyful holiday season. We trust your marriages are strong and your interior design projects are few!
It's been an eventful year here at SOIDs International headquarters. The release of the movie My Architect, as well as legal and ideological clashes with an organization calling themselves "Significant Others of Interior Decorators" have conspired to make this, our first year, one of our most challenging years ever.
We're happy to report that we've come through it all with flying colors! Our timely and compassionate advice helped SOIDs around the world deal with the critical threat to their marriages posed by My Architect. For many SOIDs, what could have been a disaster was instead turned to our advantage. Marriages were saved!
A different approach was required in our dealings with the Decorator people. Not exactly "tough love", we at SOIDs HQ call it "tough civility". We politely but firmly informed them that their lives are easy and that they should just get over it. Being married to an Interior Decorator cannot reasonably be compared to marriage to an Interior Designer! The latter (as we all know) is fraught with danger, while the former is, by comparison, a cake walk! After only an hour of testimony from true SOIDs, a Federal Judge agreed with us --at one point she had to call a recess, as she was actually moved to tears! Predictably, "Significant Others of Interior Decorators" is no more.
The holidays can be a dangerous time for a SOID. While other spouses can get into the holiday spirit by helping decorate their homes for the season, SOIDs must be extra careful not to appear to be making any sort of interior design decisions. The line between decorating and designing can be difficult even for experienced SOIDs to discern. If an Interior Designer detects that a SOID is attempting to make any sort of aesthetic decision that might reasonably be made by an ID, disaster may result. So we at SOIDs headquarters have come up with the following short list of rules to help you survive the decking of the halls:
Remember, safety first!
Twin Cities SOIDs member Tim R. discovered what may be the perfect gift for your ID. Take a look at this book.
We at SOIDs HQ love the idea. The book appeals to the Designer's sense of superiority over what (to them) is obviously bad design work; while subtly reinforcing the notion that "good taste" is somehow an objective standard, and not merely the arbitrary fashion that we SOIDs suspect it is. Your spouse will love it!
Well, that's it for now. Have a happy and safe holiday season, from all of us here at SOIDs International Headquarters. And remember, we're here for you!