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May 18, 2006
Soooo Boring
Suddenly, the barnstorming has become soooooo boring. The fact is, we're stalled. We're waiting for carpenters, insulation and wallboard, and that probably won't happen until after I get back from Alaska. Sigh.
But in the meantime, we get to do soooo boring things like prep the house (the current house) for sale. This mostly means cleaning, something which we haven't been practicing very much of lately. Yesterday, our real estate guru came over, so we frantically cleaned for a couple hours, and suddenly realized we have a damn fine house, if only we could keep it clean. We are very much looking forward to a smaller space, with more condensed dust bunnies.
We also were told that our house smelled sort of "doggish" which is way embarrassing. Though, I guess better that than "assish". An enzymatic cleaner was proposed.
And, I also spent a bit of time patching some plaster that had mysteriously given up hope in the kitchen. Hopefully the new stuff holds on - I did follow the directions.
And, we've finally bought paint for the kitchen, after saying we were going to paint it for two years and not doing it. In the future, I plan to actually do the things when I say I'm going to do them, instead of sitting on them until they are of no use to me anymore. Please remind me.
Posted by ribbu at May 18, 2006 07:07 AM
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This reminds me of those home makeover shows like "Sell My House" where they fix a house up all nice so that it will sell. They paint and get new furniture and make it into a totally different and always much more appealing place (how clever they are ...). I keep waiting for someone to say, "Gee, it's so much nicer now, we think we'll just keep it." But they never do.
Posted by: snikes at May 18, 2006 01:44 PM
Doggish!!?!?!? That sounds likes high praise to me. You know, 3 out of 4 Jodean-the-Drag-Queens say dog smells like wet work-out socks, curried chitlins and Wonder Bread. D-lish.
In response to the wild accusations of this Dogsmeller Pursuivant, I'm sending The Rubbler over this weekend to lecture on the true meaning of canine funk (PowerPoint slides and all). And since we don't want her to grow up thinking she can get free room and board at your house, I've taught Ruby to spackle. Please put her to work on your kitchen walls and any other rogue drywall in your house. Considering her remarkable lack of thumbs, The Rube really is a world class spackler, if she can resist eating said spackle.
Next week, I'm going to teach your website that a period is followed by two spaces.
Posted by: Yolanda Jones at May 19, 2006 12:23 AM
We eagerly await Ruby's wisdom (and PowerPoint presentation - please remind her though, that we all three have VERY short attention spans...).
And, since you have better sense than your dog (presumably) please refrain from teaching my website bad habits. Since the advent of the computer and automatically kerned type, double spaces are so passe. In fact, one of the most exciting things I do in this fabulous job of mine is to remove all the double spaces that philistines like you insist on putting in their copy.
Posted by: ribbu at May 19, 2006 09:54 AM
Wow. You put that way nicer than how I was told. My enlightenment came from a short little Swiss man yelling at me "are those double spaces? take out those double spaces, you're a designer!!". It was scary, but I haven't used one since.
Perhaps Ms. (Mr?) Jones should have a PowerPoint presentation of his own this weekend, courtesy of his little sister, all about the wonders of typography and the modern uses?
Posted by: amy v at May 19, 2006 05:12 PM