Archive for December, 2007

home alone

I’ve been home all week, save Christmas where David and I went to spend the day with family. David has been working a little bit so part of the week was spent alone, just me and Mojie. Did you know there’s not a lot of good on TV ALL the time? The internet has been boring me a lot too, but I’m sure I’ll be more interested once I get back to work. Being home so much has allowed us to finish a lot more painting work, put up a new kitchen light, new door handles, and hang about 57 frames with photos and artwork.

My least favorite, and most time consuming task right now is painting all of the wood trim and wood doors a high gloss white. It takes for-freakin’-ever! Drives me nuts. Regular wall painting=easy as pie. Stupid wood=work of the devil. I don’t know if painting them white was the smartest thing to do, but I bet stripping and re-staining them a darker wood color would not have been any easier. At least it was less expensive than replacing everything with new trim, doors, and everything.

David and I have decided to try for stained concrete flooring, I think it will look so nice. My old home renovation list has been updated slightly, and grown with a lot more details. Mostly with the kitchen revamping. The wall between the kitchen and living room is coming down to become a bar, and I need a new counter top but I still haven’t decided what I want, I’m thinking of concrete counters, but I’ll have to see if that will work well. The cabinets need to go, and new sleek modern ones need to come in their place. We like these white ones with some glass thrown in.

The plain rectangular bathroom mirrors with no frames I want replaced with contemporary oval mirrors like these from Ikea, with a stainless steel frame. I’ll need new sinks and vanities as well.

So, lots more work to do, but at least the bigger things will be done by someone other than me, hello contractors! I should get back to work painting some more trim, yay. I hope you guys had a great week and holidays!

instructions upon my death

I’m not going to make much sense, because my brain doesn’t want to work, but I know you’ll forgive me.

I’m sick. I haven’t been sick like this in years. I have a fever, painful steel wool throat, drips, drainage, faints, and aches. Edit: Okay, I totally over exaggerated. I had a cold, it lasted like two days, and I’m already getting better. Since I am certain that death is coming for me this week, David has been instructed to take my ashes and create a diamond from my remains.

The little sleep I got last night, was filled with dreams of the company that creates the human-diamonds, they were alien’s from another planet banking on the silly materialistic humans, something about extra cleaning services you could buy, and all these meaningless additions to purchase that added to their scam.

A tacky holiday sweater party I went to last week.

My mom and me at a dinner party over the weekend.

The cutest boyfriend trait: watching awful reality shows with me, like The Real Housewives, and acting genuinely interested at the comments I make about the characters.

back to short hair

I went in for the bob and I am very happy with it. My hair grows like a scary muscled man on steroids, so I’m totally not worried about growing it back out again if I get tired of this.

David took several photos of my new cut but none of them completely encompassed the awesomeness of the style. Not that David can’t take nice photos, I blame two dimensionality. This is the same reason why I think I look great in the mirror but get nauseated at the sight of myself in nearly all photos. Oh, the difficulties of time and space.