Unmitigated

A Sunday Post

When 21-year-old Girl moved across the street with Lovely Young Man in May of 2010 (when she was still 20-year-old-Girl), I decided that Buddy and I would move back into the room she had vacated. It's the largest of three smallish bedrooms, and our king-sized bed would finally be in a room where it would fit. It only took me 8 months to pick out a paint color, then another 5 to talk to Handy Jeff about doing the work.

              

Beh Premium Plus colors...Frosted Lemon on three walls, and Mineral Water on the fourth. I don't know about your monitor, but on mine, that frosted lemon has a peach-tone, which it does not have in...person? In paint? You know what I mean. In reality. (What if your color yellow is not my color yellow, man? Sorry. I don't mean to harsh anyone's mellow.) Out of the can, it's the same yellow as below on the quilt.

Which he did two weeks ago. Within a few days, 19-year-old Boy had gone in to remove the old carpet, which was hiding a lovely golden oak floor. On Thursday, Handy Jeff came back and put down the new moulding around the floorboards. 

Yesterday, Buddy and I made a trip to JC Penney, as I wanted to go a step beyond the usual Target bedding. We have ordered some curtains, which won't arrive until September 1st, and bought these...

          

...the Shelly quilt set and a set of Spring Stripe sheets. Minus the froofy pillows. We have a rather large number of regular pillows, don't need no stinkin' Euro-squares.

Go ahead, call me the queen of Matchy-Matchy-Town, see if I care.

1812 Military Encampment

Quick! What do you know about the War of 1812?

I'm betting 'not much.' Me, too! Lucky for both of us, The Henry Ford will be hosting a War of 1812 Military Encampment, August 20 & 21, 2011, in honor of its upcoming bicentennial.

 

Follow that link up above for more information. Want to get in free? Drop me a line!

Disclaimer: Although I am an employee of The Henry Ford, I have not been compensated to write this post, and any opinions expressed on this blog are mine, and not necessarily those of The Henry Ford.

Austin-tacious Turquoise and a Northern Lights Top Coat

And that's not all! Isn't it amazing how complex toe nails can turn out to be? One of the side injuries included with my fall of four weeks ago, is the fact that I nearly ripped off the nail on my second toe. It is slowly working its way off, and the second toe on the left foot is bruised, making it a rather darkish brown.

My darling Lily, who works her polishing/massage magic, suggested that the sparkly-blue Austin-tacious Turquoise (from OPI's Texas collection) was a little sheer. So she added a coat of Yodel Me On My Cell underneath.  In the sunshine, the Northern Lights topcoat is dazzling!

My feet are recovering from all the mistreatment of the past weeks, and starting out with the Signature Pedicure at Gina Agosta was the best, first step (get it? feet? step? nevermind)

Nobody paid me to write any of this, I just love getting a pedicure, and picking out the color is half the fun!

Stolen From an E-mail. Shut Up. I'm Tired.

If I disappear for too long, Captain Dumbass will send me an email checking to see if I am still alive. He sent one early this week, and I sent him a short reply, and claimed there would be more details later. Later turned out to be two days later, but basically, I sent this (after his snarky reminder of my lying lyingness):

In the last four weeks, I have:

• Run two very complex, week-long teachers' workshops
• Volunteered for 3/4 of a day at Maker Faire Detroit
• Learned that the grant that pays 2/3 of my wages is not being renewed for next year
• Gone to Buddy's family reunion, for which we hosted FIVE people, including his mom, who lives 30 minutes away
• Given Buddy two totally awesome gifts, one made by Michele, the other by Tera
• Refrained from strangling my boss, on more than one occasion
• Turned forty-fucking-eight, and celebrated our 26^th wedding anniversary by collapsing at 7 p.m.
• And tried to get the swelling in my leg to go down from the injury I got four WEEKS ago

Later today (Saturday), I have a pedicure scheduled, and we will be going to a party celebrating Handy Jeff's elevation to the level of Sifu in the style of martial arts that he, Buddy, and almost-20-year-old-boy all study (Wing Chun Do).

Then, I still have two more days to recover, since I took Monday off. Theoretically, I will have time to blog again.