life as i know it
drippy
but at least it's GREEN
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About Me
- *jeanne*
- * Life is change. ** Born in New Jersey. (A Jersey Girl, but I don't know "What Exit".) I went to college in Iowa. (NOT in a cornfield, but close.) I was a New Yorker. The proverbial Struggling Actor in Manhattan, and surviving pretty well for 20-something-ish years (I *heart* New York.) *** Now I live below the Mason-Dixon line. (But I'm born and bred a YANKEE.) ***For awhile, I was an avid-almost-rabid runner, running WITH my camera much of the time. I have been experiencing some "aging ? and other issues", but I still doggedly clod-hoppily-plod my way through events, camera usually in hand. Now I'm even SLOWER than I used to be. *** :-P *** ** I used to help socialize local humane society cats in their foster home, and take photos for the website, but my Haven kitties moved to a farm in Virginia in May 2018. ~meow~ Awaiting my next incarnation, or not....*** I still have a phondness for photography & a recurring Flickr Addiction, so go see my photos!
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- Fat Tuesday
- 10 Miles of Hilly Columbia
- The re-painted half-bathroom
- By George! 10K today
- Sleeping it off
- Images of past snow
- Nor'easter
- Bill in the Garden Mist bedroom
- Well, the COLOR sounds right.
- Cal and Blue
- life as i know itdrippybut at least it's GREEN
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- I wanna play TAG
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- A Most Peculiar Gray
- All Downhill From Here
- At This Stage of My Life
- Audrey's Running Shorts
- Born to Try
- Care2
- Cats in Sinks
- CowParade
- Dawn on the Run
- Deep and Slightly Random Thoughts
- E!!ie's Journey(s)
- Flo
- I Like Toast
- Lora Runs
- Nancy Toby: Run Big!
- Olga: Run More Talk Less
- plodding, plodding, plodding
- Rob: Running Further
- Run with the Black Knight
- SANTA!
- Team Boustead
- The WebSphinx Album
3 comments:
I really enjoy all your photos .... and the profile one as well.
Blue paint starts happening today at my house!
First it took me maybe 6 months to decide what colors I wanted. All those durn paint chips at the Home Depot & Lowe's and everywhere-darned-else-too!
Then I decide and it takes me HOURS of obsessing in the store before I'll actually COMMIT to my decision. Back and forth, to the paint-mixing desk, back to the chips, to the desk, back to the chips.
THEN I bring the paint cans home and it's the thought of sanding and scraping and cleaning and taping...do the ceilings, too, or not??
Ai-yi-yi, jose schmo-zhay...
So the paint cans sat in the garage for about a year. Then I did the parlor last Fourth of July, while my husband was out-of-town on a business trip (I'd wanted to surprise him with the paint job the ENTIRE fall of 2004. Nope.)
But I did it. Happy Independence Day! I HATED doing it. But thought, OK! Now the BIG, hard room is DONE! Time to do POOH ROOM. Now!
Ha-ha-ha!
Six monthes later. Same deal. But I have the paint...and ANOTHER can I got for $4.00 (a clearance mis-mixed paint. They had meant to do eggshell for some other customer, but mixed it in satin finish. So it was WAY inexpensive!) - close to the same blue the room the Pooh room already is. And now do I want to go ahead with my struggled-with-and-FINALLY-selected green, or stick with the pale blue? It's a pretty blue, but I'm a green gal...
but ON SECOND THOUGHT the room looks NICE in the blue, except for that spawned-in-hecht's (Sorry. In joke. I used to work in RETAIL. UGH. Bleeeeeeeck. Yuck-guck-sucky.) Pooh and friends the previous owner painted all over the walls.
GREEN. Went with green. As soon as green was done, I could see I'd made a mistake skipping doing the ceiling. The blue had been slopped all over the ceiling edges, and sponged down. You couldn't see it when the walls were reflecting blue against it. Now the walls were green.
It looked like #@*%*&#* (insert the worst swear words you can think of there. That's how it looked to me). I HAD to do the ceiling, or I'd lose my mind. Whatever mind I've got.
So I had to re-tape. Re-drop-cloth. And PAINT the ceiling.
But now I think it looks OK! There's still the ghost outline of Pooh & friends under the green, because sanding that fat b@$t@rd bear off was NOT 100% successful (We couldn't perceive THAT fact with the naked eye until AFTER the base coat was on.) Uneven walls. Faint flower & bear & Tigger & Piglet & such outlines. Too FLIPPIN' BAD! Jeez.
But it looks nice, I think! And I'm going to have pictures and furniture covering up most of that ghostly Pooh & friend stuff, anyway.
So TODAY I repainted the front half-bathroom. The one that was painted in matte paint that you couldn't CLEAN! Jamie was out-of-town. He'll be surprised! :-)
And I used the pretty blue that I got for $4.00. Jamie likes blue bathrooms, & my palette in there was pale spring blues/greens. Think Hydrangeas.
Oh, happy day! The brushes are all cleaned up and away! :-)
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