Apparently, I have an small, teeny tiny bit of Arab in me. Some guy waaay up on my mother’s family tree was Arab.
So… yeah. That explains all the times people have asked me if I’m Egyptian. I’m not sure how I feel about this, although I suppose it could be worse. I could be French, [...]
At least, it does when combined with a weekend trip to Augusta and extreme busy-ness at work. (Spelling that as “business” just didn’t look right, so… there you go.)
So, very briefly:
Finished painting the room on Saturday morning, and it looks FABULOUS. There’s still stuff lying about (the “second storage room” picture below pretty much [...]
Today, I mean. Is Thursday. The day before Friday and two days after Tuesday. And my house? Still one massive storage area.
On a positive note, at least none of my painting experiences (so far) have compared to Miss Doxie’s. Also, we should be done today. I hope so, ’cause I don’t think Dan’s going [...]
So her house turned into a mountainous pile of crap.
At the moment, Sarah Cynthia and I have something in common — the mountainous pile of crap, not the refusal to take out the garbage. Take a look for yourself:
The study, AKA the storage room
The living room, AKA the other storage room
The recent multitudes of moving [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Like when my mother tells me half a dozen times to call her uncle, the only living relative I have that even remotely resembles a grandfather, and I keep pushing it off because I’m busy or because I forget, and then he ends up calling me. And then he’s not even upset that I didn’t [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...There are many — work and family and memory and paint and struggles at the plate by my second favorite Brave of the Moment. Okay, perhaps the last hasn’t been weighing on me quite as much as the rest.
I’m trying not to let it get to me, and one of the functions of that trying [...]
Stuart, master home remodeller, has pointed out the error of my ways. Apparently, Ralph Lauren paint is a good paint, not a runny paint. Apparently, I am supposed to let the primer dry for at least 8 hours rather than the 30 minutes it takes me and AM to eat ice cream and wash up [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Happy birthday Mandi, my most fabulous roommate ever!
» Read the rest of this entry ...Happy birthday Rashaad (today) and Uzmaa (two days ago)! And also Dave (yesterday)!
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