A year ago -
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shadesong said got me thinking. This year is better than last year...well, I can now go back and look.
We were in the middle of all those child abductions, about this time last year. Now? Well, Jim knows when an amber alert has been issued, he has television access during the day. I don't. They still happen, but they aren't front page news anymore - and that, to be honest, is just plain sad. Never did hear how the Farber case ended up.
We were taking stuff to the storage shed this time last year. I got one Saturday to myself, and found it heaven.
Better is hard - it's now apples to oranges. The Bell Estate could easily swallow me whole on a number of levels for months to come. I was looking at the "white space" at the top of the living room and discovered there is enough space up there to run a HO train track all around the top of the room at the ceiling, should I want to put it up there. Cantilevers? Power from below? I'm actually thinking of how the electrical could be run for such a thing.
I've always wanted one.
I'm driving Jim nuts - I'm sure of it. I want help doing stuff - whine about stuff - and when he does stuff, I pick it to pieces. Yanno, girl - you want it done your way - you're going to have to do it yourself or put up with some deviance from perfect.
I'm damn happy about the way the back bedroom turned out. If I could have had that bedroom when I was a teenager, I would have been a happy camper. It's 10 x 12' if I'm any guess, but it has a bed, two dressers, a computer desk and a bookcase in it with a closet and plenty of walkspace. Two of my uncle's watercolors on the wall, and the two dressers are the pieces I had refinished - 125 years old and gorgeous.
I think the best part of working all night was waking up this morning to see everything in place and looking damn fine.
However, asbigbigtruck noted some time ago - when projects of this kind take up most of your spare time, your creative juices hit rock bottom. I'm looking forward to shopping for a horizontal file, how banal is that?! Oooh, and extra hardware and shelves for my bookcases....ooooh. *slaps self*
I thought the DVDs were bad. Those TokyoPop manga books 0wnz one of my Billy cases. They threaten to take over the world. Bwaha.
Hiroshi and I had a snugglefest this morning - he is going to be such an interesting character. He's one of those that purrs and meows at the same time. And attacks random balls of lint. Randomly. From under the dresser.
But the bookcase Cliff and I built 18 years ago now has a back on it again, and is ready to be loaded with cookbooks.
shadesong said got me thinking. This year is better than last year...well, I can now go back and look.We were in the middle of all those child abductions, about this time last year. Now? Well, Jim knows when an amber alert has been issued, he has television access during the day. I don't. They still happen, but they aren't front page news anymore - and that, to be honest, is just plain sad. Never did hear how the Farber case ended up.
We were taking stuff to the storage shed this time last year. I got one Saturday to myself, and found it heaven.
Better is hard - it's now apples to oranges. The Bell Estate could easily swallow me whole on a number of levels for months to come. I was looking at the "white space" at the top of the living room and discovered there is enough space up there to run a HO train track all around the top of the room at the ceiling, should I want to put it up there. Cantilevers? Power from below? I'm actually thinking of how the electrical could be run for such a thing.
I've always wanted one.
I'm driving Jim nuts - I'm sure of it. I want help doing stuff - whine about stuff - and when he does stuff, I pick it to pieces. Yanno, girl - you want it done your way - you're going to have to do it yourself or put up with some deviance from perfect.
I'm damn happy about the way the back bedroom turned out. If I could have had that bedroom when I was a teenager, I would have been a happy camper. It's 10 x 12' if I'm any guess, but it has a bed, two dressers, a computer desk and a bookcase in it with a closet and plenty of walkspace. Two of my uncle's watercolors on the wall, and the two dressers are the pieces I had refinished - 125 years old and gorgeous.
I think the best part of working all night was waking up this morning to see everything in place and looking damn fine.
However, as
bigbigtruck noted some time ago - when projects of this kind take up most of your spare time, your creative juices hit rock bottom. I'm looking forward to shopping for a horizontal file, how banal is that?! Oooh, and extra hardware and shelves for my bookcases....ooooh. *slaps self*I thought the DVDs were bad. Those TokyoPop manga books 0wnz one of my Billy cases. They threaten to take over the world. Bwaha.
Hiroshi and I had a snugglefest this morning - he is going to be such an interesting character. He's one of those that purrs and meows at the same time. And attacks random balls of lint. Randomly. From under the dresser.
But the bookcase Cliff and I built 18 years ago now has a back on it again, and is ready to be loaded with cookbooks.
