1. My newly-refinished dining room table has finally made it home! Clearly, it is now time to devise a dinner party. A small dinner party, I note, since the table will comfortably hold four. :) There's no saying there can't be more than one party, however. :) I note that this is the first actual wood dining table I've ever owned. Even the ( Read more... )

I officially give up.  I'm hiring a cleaning service.  It's a prescription for sanity.

Genuine snippets of progress have been made today.  None, however, involve all aspects of the cleaning (primarily vacuuming) that really needed to be done.  I blame a large part of this on the fact that I am quite allergic to dust and stirring it up by cleaning is ( Read more... )

Yes.  After months and months and MONTHS of kvetching, angsting and dithering over it, I finally wrote a note to Mr. Not-So-Good Vibrations next door to ask him if we can do some problem-solving together as regards the placement of his stereo/gaming system.

Still sitting down?  Good!

I actually put it under his door.

What finally made me act, do you ( Read more... )

Taiko was FANTABULOUS!  Likewise hanging with soteltie  & Aquel!  :-D  I've tentatively penciled in their Revision matinee show on the 31st (I'll be out of town on the 30th).  If you're interested in a redo, please let me know!

In hairstyle news:

I don't feel at all bad for kicking my stylist to the curb.  I went in today and said, "please cut the top ( Read more... )

Well, after remarkably little cursing (in fact, I'm not sure there was ANY cursing), I am now the proud possessor of two fully assembled and functional pieces of furniture!  Though not frustrating, it did take most of the day to put everything together, so I'm pretty wiped out now ( Read more... )

I'm singing for youuuuuuuuuuuuuu, Huuuuuuuuuugh...

Hugh, Hugh, Hugh, Hugh, Hugh, Hugh, Hugh Marvelous Hugh!!!!!!!!!

I can has furniture.  Thanks to you-know-hugh-who, I am now couch-enabled!  Well, more correctly, I *will* be couch-enabled after I assemble the thing tomorrow.  Also, I note that repeat trips to Ikea are dangerous.  I wound up leaving ( Read more... )

I've just spent 4 hours surfing medieval music on the web!  OMGOMGI'msotired!  I had planned to fall asleep at say, 7.  Or 8.  Or 9.  It was a very long day at work and I was on my feet all day.  I knew it would be a mistake to turn my computer on ( Read more... )

I am pleased (and surprised!) to have discovered that taking Rt. 95, even during rush hour, saves me at least 20 minutes-1/2 hour of driving to most of my southern MA facilities.  Hence, I'm doing a whole lot less driving on Rt. 495.  This is something of a surprise--I'd expected the commute would be much longer with the slower traffic, but ( Read more... )

The verdict is in:  Mirabel's new couch lives at Ikea.  :-)  I test-sat a bunch of different sofa beds there, and the one I liked best is the beddinge style, which has under-couch storage, a choice of 4 mattresses of varying firmness, a machine-washable cover and the fabric style I wanted (canvas).  It also conveniently has no little places where ( Read more... )

I had a lovely time with

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