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Home Improvements – 2
I want our bedroom back! I can’t watch T.V. or read at night. If you sit on the foot end of the bed, the head end of the bed will raise up. The whole room is a mess and there aren’t any blinds on the windows. Take a look:
The window sills needed to be repaired and patched. We had wall paper removed so there was quite a bit of glue left that had to be sanded. We also had a chair rail removed so that left many holes to be filled. There were hammer marks from nails that had been pounded in after the room was originally finished. We ended up with a few hundred patch spots.
Our room was textured and tomorrow it will be painted. I can’t wait!
One more thing, I had Eddie, the repair guy, move a phone jack and add one for the satellite T.V. When he was done, the phone didn’t work. I made a diagram from the upstairs phone jack and then re-wired the new jack. It still didn’t work! Luckily, Roland-the engineer was home and gave me a phone splitter to test the new jack. After plugging in the splitter and testing the phone in L2 (line 2), the phone worked just fine. I love engineers, well my engineer anyway.
The Fox and the Hound – Say Goodbye
I’ve been working on our children’s site:
http://www.kritiquekritics.com/children/
I want the site to be “purrfect” for the new school semester; I’ve been looking at videos to add to the story sections. I came across this video and it just moved me.
The Fox and the Hound – Say Goodbye
The Cat Lady’s Dog
I’m not really a dog person; a cat is much more my style. Although, I have loved every dog I’ve ever had. Right now, we have one German shepherd named Dakota. She is seven and very devoted to my husband, Roland.
Sometimes, I would like to kill Dakota. Like today, yesterday and the day before. Ever since, she peed in the hallway about a week ago. I accidentally put “dog shampoo” on it. The container looks a lot like “Nature’s Miracle.” It would be a miracle if I could get all the shampoo out, not to mention the smell and the stain.
Our carpet is old–really old. However, we aren’t planning to replace it in the near future. So I have to look at the large (two feet square) stain many times a day. No my dog doesn’t have that much urine–remember the part about the shampoo. Every time I clean it (three times so far), the stain gets bigger.
This might not seem like a big deal. But, when you add it to all the anomalies of the past month, I’m on overload. I still have to figure out how to get the stain out–call a carpet cleaner!
Writing and Editing a Story
I’m trying to write a piece for a two-hundred, fifty word, first page contest entry. This is my first line, now, “Screaming like a banshee, I enter the hospital for the third time in one day.” I’ve also used, “It starts late Monday morning with a sharp twinge on my left side.”
I written and edited this piece so many times, I’m beginning to wonder if someone else should be writing about my kidney stone nightmare. Writing isn’t difficult for me, but editing is time consuming and miserable. After several passes, everything begins to look the same.
One thing I think is that I wasn’t empathetic toward my sister when she had a kidney stone the day our mother died or the day after. I wasn’t mentally or physically able to help her when she needed it. But, of course, I can’t go back and I don’t have room in the story for regrets or things that I felt or thought while enduring the pain for thirty-three hours.
Facebook Fever
Am I the only one who has gotten Facebook Fever? Do others check their walls and inboxes several times a day to hear all the news and see who has posted comments? Are other writers finding that their prime writing time gets eaten up with social networking?
I used to get up, make coffee and dive right into my novel or a short story. Now I check e-mail, Facebook, and the blogs. I love feeling that I’m not alone staring at this screen. That others are out there with hugs and smiles. But still I’m only on Chapter 5 with another 65 to revise and it isn’t helping me to get the job done.
How do others deal with this?
Home Improvements – 1
I don’t know how much longer my husband and I will be able to tolerate another person around and all the mess repairing and improving the house brings. I want the improvements, but I want the person gone, too. I need to remember that many people would love to have this problem–I wanted this problem for a long time.
Here’s some of the finished work:
Author Launch Party
The cat lady has a friend, Destry Ramey, who loves dogs. She has just finished her second “pugs” book in the series. I had the pleasure of hearing the audio version last Friday night and I was stunned at how great it is. Please don’t miss this author launch party:
http://www.kritiquekritics.com/?page_id=3691
Check out her cute website at:
Home Improvements
We’re having some work done around the house. The inside hasn’t been painted in ten years, so you can imagine how much attention it needs. We’re starting with the bathrooms and the laundry room—wallpaper removal, texture coating and painting is making them look like new.
I bought lights, mirrors and towel racks for the bathrooms, which wasn’t easy. I love living in a small town until I need to buy something—few stores don’t give you much of a selection. I bought one bathroom light on the internet and bought some of the mirrors in Los Angeles, when I was visiting my uncle.
I looked all over for new sconces and ended up reworking the old ones—they turned out nicely, though.
How I fixed an UGLY sconce!
Here is a picture of the unsightly sconce(s), five to be exact, I have lived with for the last ten years:
How did I make the “ugly” into “I like them, in a few steps?”
1. Made template for thirty-one wholes in upper and lower sconces (sixty-two each or three-hundred and ten holes).
2. Disconnected sconces from wall (electricity off).
3. Disassembled sconces.
4. Sanded off old flat paint and washed and dried surface.
5. Followed directions from American Accents’ Authentic Patine (available at OSH for $11.00.)
6. Re-assembled sconces.
7. Re-connected sconces to wall (electricity off).
Here’s what one of my new sconces looks like:
I especially like that you can tell they are metal and that the inside is no longer flat black.
I put this job off for a long time. However, it wasn’t difficult, it was just time consuming.
If you like the new sconces, make a comment. If you don’t, keep it to yourself–I worked a long time on these.
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