gin palace do-over
We dug out the bundle-buggy and carted all the paint tins back to the paint store. They had made an error entering the recipe, which just meant adding a whole wadge of green to fix it. Even so it's not the same colour - our old walls were a bright forest green and this colour is a little darker, more of a moss green. I can only assume that the dyes have changed over the ten years since we first painted this place. Anyway, now that it's dried we quite like it so that worked out.
Of course I can now much more clearly see all the other parts of the house that really could use some paint repair, but that's a problem for future me.
Our living space has been rearranged and it's an unusual setup - the computers are right by the front door and the "living room" with the couch and television is at the back. But it means Axe will be sitting next to a window while he works, and since we eat most of our meals in front of the television anyway, this setup has it closer to the kitchen. The dining table takes up the entire centre of the room. It will probably be a while before it's used for dining, but it can be a workspace for all the half-finished projects that have been sitting around taking up space because we haven't had a place to work on them. Maybe I can finally dig out my sewing machine and clean out that big box with "for repairs" scrawled on it in sharpie that's been sitting in my bedroom for years.
Sunday I go back to work. It hasn't been a vacation really, but it's been productive time and there have been beers and takeout on the front porch so I'm pretty cheerful about it. I still have three weeks of vacation my boss wants me to use up before the end of the year, so I've booked another week in October and I think I'll take the last two in November. Maybe I'll do Nanowrimo again this year. This entry was originally posted at https://the-siobhan.dreamwidth.org/540443.html. There are
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Of course I can now much more clearly see all the other parts of the house that really could use some paint repair, but that's a problem for future me.
Our living space has been rearranged and it's an unusual setup - the computers are right by the front door and the "living room" with the couch and television is at the back. But it means Axe will be sitting next to a window while he works, and since we eat most of our meals in front of the television anyway, this setup has it closer to the kitchen. The dining table takes up the entire centre of the room. It will probably be a while before it's used for dining, but it can be a workspace for all the half-finished projects that have been sitting around taking up space because we haven't had a place to work on them. Maybe I can finally dig out my sewing machine and clean out that big box with "for repairs" scrawled on it in sharpie that's been sitting in my bedroom for years.
Sunday I go back to work. It hasn't been a vacation really, but it's been productive time and there have been beers and takeout on the front porch so I'm pretty cheerful about it. I still have three weeks of vacation my boss wants me to use up before the end of the year, so I've booked another week in October and I think I'll take the last two in November. Maybe I'll do Nanowrimo again this year. This entry was originally posted at https://the-siobhan.dreamwidth.org/540443.html. There are
comments on this post. Please comment there using OpenID.