| Tapes and Tapes. And Painter's Tape. |
 Tapes and Tapes. And Painter's Tape.
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Apr. 28th, 2008 @ 10:17 am 
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Breakfast this morning. Not ashamed. It was delicious. Okay, maybe a little bit ashamed. Still delicious, though.
Zach found a pair of tickets to the Supersnack benefit for sale on Craigslist. This makes me feel alternately proud and kind of sad. Proud because: we have arrived! Our event is being re-sold on Craigslist! And sad because, I'm not sure. I guess because this person isn't coming to the show.
By the way, if you're wanting tickets, here's that link.
Today continues my home remodeling project. I am repainting the purple wall in the living room back to white (actually, cream. ACTUALLY, "lotus flower." hee) and we are going to make it a wall in flux. Fun! Doing the spackling and subsequent sanding makes me feel like Donna Reed in "It's a Wonderful Life" (only the scene where she was doing the home remodel, though), and there is something eminently satisfying about seeing those silty dried grout particles snow down and running my hand over the newly smooth wall. I love redecorating. I love everything about it. And while I paint: rocking some muxtape.com. It's great, even if it does make me feel like a grandma due to the high percentage of bands I not only know nothing about but have never even heard of.
The cat is going to be a great help, obviously:
EDIT: Crisis! Apartment's reserves of precious "Lotus Flower" eggshell paint dwindling to extinction, with project only 90% complete! Hoping to thwart home remodel disaster, off to hardware store to fetch another gallon - possibly the last gallon. Please observe my fly "running to the paint store in the rain" costume. Note: Cat, ever assiduous, still helping.
EDIT #2: Victory! Well, sort of. Paint store, as feared, was sold out of rare "Lotus Flower" version, so I was instructed (by unfriendly and authoritarian Hasidic men who run the paint store) to choose another color. Rather than drive myself mad trying to match, from memory, Lotus Flower to any one of the dizzying array of off-white shades I was presented, I decided "Fuck it, it's off-white, no one will ever know the difference" and hastily set about making my selection based on which paint color name sounded the most unintentionally gross. Colonial Cream, Mannequin Cream, and the effectively-if-tersely-named Mayonnaise were all on the short list of contenders, but of course Cream Froth (!) took home the ribbon. I am off to go cover my wall with it. |
look at him diligently holding down that dropcloth for you!!
yeah, we did our bedroom and living room but the rest of the house is painted with crap flat paint that scratches if you look at it askance. so we're waiting to do the hall and kitchen until after the move, because, you know... movers. whee!
tonight is packapalooza. i may die.
It's about time Ned started helping out! My cat has been living with me for almost 13 years and do you think she pays rent? No! Do you think she helps with the groceries? No! And she certainly never helped me paint. Slacker.
Ned requires you to stop that nonsense and pay attention to him. Also, when you start painting leave the paint on the floor so he can get his tail in the paint tray and deposit paint throughout your home. Said paint will not be discovered until it is dry and difficult to remove.
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I'm very disappointed this post did not actually have Tapes & Tapes in it.
It could be worse. Boris helps whenever we pack to leave (like right about this week) by getting upset and meowing at us to stop. I mean, how dare we move anything in his home.
A) Love the outfit. B) How can they be out of paint? Don't they mix the colors there like they do at Home Depot? C) Did you get enough paint to cover the entire wall and not end up with a 90% Cream Froth wall as opposed to a 90% Lotus Flower wall? And last but not least, D) Why does "Cream Froth" look peach on Benji's site? (Benjamin Moore and I go way back so I'm allowed to refer to him as Benji.)
Okay, Cream Froth is gross, but Mannequin Cream?! I mean...MANNEQUIN CREAM? That is definitely the winner! You cragey!
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