Monday night
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same_skyUpdate on the present situation: I ordered something for M's sister, so now we just need the mom and dad. Still no firm ideas on what we're sending them, but I appreciate the ideas for those who volunteered them. We've decided to send them all together after all, which means his mom's present will be late, but she said that we didn't need to send anything, so we think that late will be okay. :)
I spent the day doing icky stuff, for the most part. I went in to the store just before lunch and then started in on the stupid cabinets around two. There's a kitchen in the back room, and so we've been trying to get all the cabinets cleaned out and shelfpaper put down. This really sucked. I said this approximately fifty times while doing it, just in case anyone forgot that I thought so. :) I didn't mind the shelf-paper all that much, though. And we finally got it done, at least.
Actually, to tell the truth, I'm somewhat of a Contact-paper fanatic. I actually wallpapered my kitchen in it. ;) This does not appear even slightly as tacky as it sounds. See, we have an old trailer, with dark panelling on the two main walls. The third wall had this icky crackled yellow horrible.. I don't even know the word for it. It looked awful, in any case, so I covered it with ivy contact paper before we even moved in. (There isn't a wall on the fourth wall, by the way. Just a sink and counter.) (See a picture here and ignore the junk on the fridge. Magnus likes to put things there for some reason. The stuff I covered up was also in the bathroom, and you can see that here.. this has also been covered (with actual wallpaper this time..this was taken just before we put it up, hence the open sockets and missing towel rack and stuff) and the light fixture replaced, of course.) I've done other interesting things with Contact paper, too. I covered three built-in kitchen shelf-type things and the medicine cabinet in the bathroom (twice, but I'm not happy with the second implementation, though I doubt I'll get around to fixing it.. the thing needs replaced, really.) And there's even one ceiling cabinet that's covered in dark green paper. It's handy stuff. I have a roll on my desk right now, as a matter of fact.
All this talk about home improvements reminds me of how much work we've actually put into this place and how sentimentally attached I am to it. We've made a few incredibly weird cheap fixes that are highly on the tacky side (if you've ever decorated with sheets or cardboard, you might be a redneck..) but now it looks pretty good inside, if I do say so myself. Well, when it's clean and if you don't look at the carpet. ;) And luckily for us, we could care less what the outside looks like. ;) If we were the outdoorsy sort, we'd be freaking out by now. I'm just so uninterested in grass and flowers and stuff.
Then again, sentimentality is nice and all, but man, am I looking forward to moving outta here! I want a house! I could learn to like grass and flowers! Really! Just give me a chance!
I spent the day doing icky stuff, for the most part. I went in to the store just before lunch and then started in on the stupid cabinets around two. There's a kitchen in the back room, and so we've been trying to get all the cabinets cleaned out and shelfpaper put down. This really sucked. I said this approximately fifty times while doing it, just in case anyone forgot that I thought so. :) I didn't mind the shelf-paper all that much, though. And we finally got it done, at least.
Actually, to tell the truth, I'm somewhat of a Contact-paper fanatic. I actually wallpapered my kitchen in it. ;) This does not appear even slightly as tacky as it sounds. See, we have an old trailer, with dark panelling on the two main walls. The third wall had this icky crackled yellow horrible.. I don't even know the word for it. It looked awful, in any case, so I covered it with ivy contact paper before we even moved in. (There isn't a wall on the fourth wall, by the way. Just a sink and counter.) (See a picture here and ignore the junk on the fridge. Magnus likes to put things there for some reason. The stuff I covered up was also in the bathroom, and you can see that here.. this has also been covered (with actual wallpaper this time..this was taken just before we put it up, hence the open sockets and missing towel rack and stuff) and the light fixture replaced, of course.) I've done other interesting things with Contact paper, too. I covered three built-in kitchen shelf-type things and the medicine cabinet in the bathroom (twice, but I'm not happy with the second implementation, though I doubt I'll get around to fixing it.. the thing needs replaced, really.) And there's even one ceiling cabinet that's covered in dark green paper. It's handy stuff. I have a roll on my desk right now, as a matter of fact.
All this talk about home improvements reminds me of how much work we've actually put into this place and how sentimentally attached I am to it. We've made a few incredibly weird cheap fixes that are highly on the tacky side (if you've ever decorated with sheets or cardboard, you might be a redneck..) but now it looks pretty good inside, if I do say so myself. Well, when it's clean and if you don't look at the carpet. ;) And luckily for us, we could care less what the outside looks like. ;) If we were the outdoorsy sort, we'd be freaking out by now. I'm just so uninterested in grass and flowers and stuff.
Then again, sentimentality is nice and all, but man, am I looking forward to moving outta here! I want a house! I could learn to like grass and flowers! Really! Just give me a chance!
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Date: 2003-04-08 05:40 am (UTC)I was somewhat of a contact freak myself in "my other life". I contacted anything not nailed down. The kids were fascinated that Santa gave other kids games in wrappers, but that he actually gave them games with EVERY box and card pre-contacted...even ALL the money in Monopoly... I still cover my books even in Sweden, and I'm slowly converting Lars-Göran to the joys of contacting!
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Date: 2003-04-08 11:48 am (UTC)