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fredericksWe were painting my room, so mine was the docked iPod. Bro, of course, had to add his two cents.
Bro: Who is this, the artist who sounds like she's dying.
Me: ::puts down the brush, listens more closely:: ...Tori Amos.
Bro: I thought as much.
My total room make-over has *finally* begun, two months after I went crazy in Ikea buying furniture. Actually, this make-over should be categorized as half-assed: I'm still planning on pulling up the carpet but I should be taking hammer and chisel to the plaster walls, because they are cracking and chipping all over. However, since my vacation wraps up in five days (*sigh*) I don't have time to deal with all that craziness. I'm spackling up the more horrendous holes and keeping a can of paint on hand for when the inevitable fallout occurs.
I never knew spackling was so evil. I mean, if you want to update Greek mythology instead of having Sisyphus push a damn boulder up a hill you can have the man work on spackling a large hole in drywall. You get the spackle in the hole, right? then you start smoothing the stuff out. Only thing you have to try not to get *too much* spackle outside of the hole, or the whole thing will look...like you've spackled a hole in drywall. So you smooth and you remove excess and you smooth some more, only thing you end up disturbing the slightly dry spackle on top, leaving the product crater-y and uneven. Then you start smoothing and removing again, maybe adding a little more spackle here and there...you get my point. I spent something like 15 minutes over one large whole, only giving up after my brother threatened to leave off helping me altogether unless I put the paste down. The area still looks pretty uneven -sandpaper will only help so much, I'm sure - but I'm leaving the tools and the spackle alone. That shit'll drive me bonkers.
What we accomplished today? Got the paint from Home Depot, (Optimus) primed the ceiling and 1.5 walls. Painting is hard, yo. Double-coating, making sure the walls are clean, running for wet towels like a maniac after getting primer on your nice pair of jeans...it's draining work. It'd probably go a lot faster if it was slightly warmer out and I had a couple of beers chilling but, oh well. I highly doubt I'll have any furniture up by Saturday, but I've put most of my old stuff *out*, so, progress. If I can get the paint down and carpet up I'll be set.
I picked up tickets for moms, the aunt-unit, bro, and myself to see Xanadu on Wednesday. Second time around for me, but I figured I owed myself as I'd missed the first thirty or so minutes last time. And bro and I have stage seats. Hopefully Kerry and Cheyenne are in; understudies, while great folks, aren't worth the monies I doled out.
I'd picked up the Xanadu tickets last Wednesday (?) right before heading in to see Spamalot. I found myself really wanting to *like* Spamalot and laughing a bit, but wasn't able to say I really enjoyed myself. Maybe it was because I knew so many of the sketches/jokes as they came out that they lost a little of their luster. And the way in which the fourth wall was violated (and when I say "violated", I mean waaaaaaay more than semi-carnally) in the second act. Tweaking I can take. Picking it up, half-nelsoning it, and then wacking its bottom for thirty minutes? Not so much. If Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce, and Tim Curry were to show back up I would go back in a heartbeat. Otherwise? Meh.
I have entirely too much primer on my hands. Dammit.
Links:
Oh, Maple Leaf-ers? Why didn't anyone tell me about this?
And Chaucer says "STOP YOUR SCLAUNDRES OF BRITNEY!". I would listen to the man.
Bro: Who is this, the artist who sounds like she's dying.
Me: ::puts down the brush, listens more closely:: ...Tori Amos.
Bro: I thought as much.
My total room make-over has *finally* begun, two months after I went crazy in Ikea buying furniture. Actually, this make-over should be categorized as half-assed: I'm still planning on pulling up the carpet but I should be taking hammer and chisel to the plaster walls, because they are cracking and chipping all over. However, since my vacation wraps up in five days (*sigh*) I don't have time to deal with all that craziness. I'm spackling up the more horrendous holes and keeping a can of paint on hand for when the inevitable fallout occurs.
I never knew spackling was so evil. I mean, if you want to update Greek mythology instead of having Sisyphus push a damn boulder up a hill you can have the man work on spackling a large hole in drywall. You get the spackle in the hole, right? then you start smoothing the stuff out. Only thing you have to try not to get *too much* spackle outside of the hole, or the whole thing will look...like you've spackled a hole in drywall. So you smooth and you remove excess and you smooth some more, only thing you end up disturbing the slightly dry spackle on top, leaving the product crater-y and uneven. Then you start smoothing and removing again, maybe adding a little more spackle here and there...you get my point. I spent something like 15 minutes over one large whole, only giving up after my brother threatened to leave off helping me altogether unless I put the paste down. The area still looks pretty uneven -sandpaper will only help so much, I'm sure - but I'm leaving the tools and the spackle alone. That shit'll drive me bonkers.
What we accomplished today? Got the paint from Home Depot, (Optimus) primed the ceiling and 1.5 walls. Painting is hard, yo. Double-coating, making sure the walls are clean, running for wet towels like a maniac after getting primer on your nice pair of jeans...it's draining work. It'd probably go a lot faster if it was slightly warmer out and I had a couple of beers chilling but, oh well. I highly doubt I'll have any furniture up by Saturday, but I've put most of my old stuff *out*, so, progress. If I can get the paint down and carpet up I'll be set.
I picked up tickets for moms, the aunt-unit, bro, and myself to see Xanadu on Wednesday. Second time around for me, but I figured I owed myself as I'd missed the first thirty or so minutes last time. And bro and I have stage seats. Hopefully Kerry and Cheyenne are in; understudies, while great folks, aren't worth the monies I doled out.
I'd picked up the Xanadu tickets last Wednesday (?) right before heading in to see Spamalot. I found myself really wanting to *like* Spamalot and laughing a bit, but wasn't able to say I really enjoyed myself. Maybe it was because I knew so many of the sketches/jokes as they came out that they lost a little of their luster. And the way in which the fourth wall was violated (and when I say "violated", I mean waaaaaaay more than semi-carnally) in the second act. Tweaking I can take. Picking it up, half-nelsoning it, and then wacking its bottom for thirty minutes? Not so much. If Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce, and Tim Curry were to show back up I would go back in a heartbeat. Otherwise? Meh.
I have entirely too much primer on my hands. Dammit.
Links:
Oh, Maple Leaf-ers? Why didn't anyone tell me about this?
And Chaucer says "STOP YOUR SCLAUNDRES OF BRITNEY!". I would listen to the man.
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Date: 2007-09-18 08:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-18 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-18 12:14 pm (UTC)You didn't enjoy Spamalot? :( I'm dying to see that show. Although, I would kill (not really, though) to see the originals in that show. The soundtrack is so much love.
Enjoy Xanadu...again! ♥
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Date: 2007-09-18 09:12 pm (UTC)I wasn't too fond of Spamalot. Not that it didn't have its good parts, but it's the one show I've seen on B'way so far I didn't leave with an urge to see it again. I did pick up the soundtrack, and I completely concur - it's good stuff.
Thanks. Xaaaaaaaa-naduuuuuuu!. I love that show. :)
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Date: 2007-09-18 04:43 pm (UTC)BNL Cruise? I WANT!
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Date: 2007-09-18 09:14 pm (UTC)And I want too! I wish I'd found out about the cruise earlier. BNL and Guster? FTW!
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