P has offered to do the painting while we're away. My job will be to get everything taped off before he leaves. A monumental task on its own, I might add. We've abandoned 'Desert Fortress' and gone with another P-appropriate color called 'Hopsack.' My beer brewing hubby thinks that's an equally acceptable name for a wall color. It's another neutral brown, but with the weird pale terra cotta tiles on the floor, our palette was limited. Still gotta get some blinds up too.
So, on top of the taping I'm also trying to get ready to leave for 10 days of vacation. This includes a plane trip and 2 days of driving on either end of the trip. I have to have 2 bulletins ready, all the laundry we need done, try really hard not to forget things like warm pjs for the cool Canadian nights, L's sun hat, my flip flops, etc., and it all has to fit in one suitcase and a backpack. Somehow, I have a feeling my sanity might have to be left behind to make room for L's stuffed giraffe.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
My Collection
I've started rather a collection of blogs lately. I have different ones for some of my main interests. Yes, I could put them all in one place, but why? I feel more organized this way, and hey, since organization is not something oft found in my life, I take it where I can get it.
On the home front, we've finally gotten all of the professional repair work done on our house after the tornado back at the end of April. Now the rest is up to us. Mostly painting. Arg! Anyone out there like to paint? We've got plenty to go 'round. We decided that rather than just painting the same color over the places where there is new plaster, to go ahead and change the color of the room since it's a rather ugly pinkish-beige, "Sell My House Neutral" as it were. Not to mention it is high gloss on heavily textured plastering. Ick! Plus, we have these pale terra cotta colored tile floors that we have to try to find something to go with. So it will probably be another brownish neutral, but something a little bolder and less pink. We're leaning towards "Desert Fortress." You can see why that might appeal to Patrick, yes? We're hoping to get something picked out this weekend and get started soon. Now that they are done around the windows, we need to get some blinds up too. Our living room has been a fishbowl as of late.
On the home front, we've finally gotten all of the professional repair work done on our house after the tornado back at the end of April. Now the rest is up to us. Mostly painting. Arg! Anyone out there like to paint? We've got plenty to go 'round. We decided that rather than just painting the same color over the places where there is new plaster, to go ahead and change the color of the room since it's a rather ugly pinkish-beige, "Sell My House Neutral" as it were. Not to mention it is high gloss on heavily textured plastering. Ick! Plus, we have these pale terra cotta colored tile floors that we have to try to find something to go with. So it will probably be another brownish neutral, but something a little bolder and less pink. We're leaning towards "Desert Fortress." You can see why that might appeal to Patrick, yes? We're hoping to get something picked out this weekend and get started soon. Now that they are done around the windows, we need to get some blinds up too. Our living room has been a fishbowl as of late.
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