June 4, 2008
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At the Moment
There is a time in every remodeling project when it is perfectly appropriate to look around and decide that a can of gasoline and a match is the answer. What is not appropriate is actually using the gasoline or the match. Thus, I have hidden the boxes of strike anywhere matches that I keep for bonfires and candle lighting and I am certainly not going to waste perfectly good gasoline on a torch job so….rather than continue to live in chaos, the painting and cleaning continues.
The screaming desire to just burn the place to ground is brought to you by the fact that I am at the cds and dvds. May the good Lord help me. What to keep? What to send to the booksale? This is arduous. And of course they aren’t all mine so the stuff I would gladly send to the book sale I can’t because they belong to the Spousal Unit. He, were he participating in this, would get rid of my folk music and some of the classical pieces. And then I would have to hit him with a frying pan. Thus….it all goes in boxes until the joint is painted and arranged and then it all comes out of the boxes and goes back on the shelves.
I just keep reminding myself I am gong to love this when it is done. Yes. I am.
In other news the big TV has gone into Thomas’ room and one of these days I will purchase a small flat screen for the living room that will hide gracefully in the corner and not be the center of anything. I hate TVs being the focal point in a room. Makes me nuts.
In other news….Summer reading begins on Monday. I am excited. The kids are excited. The littlies are coming in already, looking expectantly in the Swuck, and looking disappointed when I smile and say “Not until Monday guys.” It is good. I still have a boatload to do before then but that’s all right. It will be worth it. I am excited and that will feed their energy. How can you not love those shining faces? They make me smile all day long. Even the middlies who really only want a balloon so they can suck the helium out of it.
And so it goes.
Comments (5)
LOL. You are so right about the match and the smiling faces. But sadly, arson is often very easy to detect.
Ok, inquiring minds need to know….what is the “Swuck”??????
On GMA recently, they interviewed some guy who pulled a real Danny Deckchair and ended up crossing one and a half states. When asked how he got his contraption to go down, he responded that he either popped one of the balloons or untied one and let out some of the helium, which caused him to talk like Alvin.
Your comment about the TV reminded me of a recent episode of South Park (yes, I do watch too much TV (pained smile)) where the entire Internet went down, everyone in town panicked until they remembered that they used to get their news off the TV, but when they found a TV the newsman just kept muttering something about not being able to provide any news because his Internet was down.
Do not become a torcher. It’ll be good soon. But I have sympathy!
I hate tvs doing that too but I never seem to sit where they are pointed anyway.
I had to come see what “swuck” was! And now I am still guessing!
Hide those matches.
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