Tao of Lunacy

Wow!  How time flies.  Since I’m re-organizing my blogs and moving posts to the most appropriate blog, I’m moving this entry to here.  I can’t believe this is from April 2007!  Sometimes I do enjoy looking at old posts and seeing what I wrote.  Hopefully you’ll enjoy the story.

I don’t usually blog about my life, but I’ve not been online much lately so I wanted to post a quick update. Last year I went on a mission to redo the interior of my house (almost completely by myself no less!) I got it done, with the exception of my computer/craft room. This poor small room was my last holdout for junk I didn’t want to deal with. Since the laptop, I’ve spent very little time in there and it’s been largely overtaken by my 12-1/2 year old male offspring. (Note:  Here we are 4 years later and it’s still largely taken over by my now 16 -1/2 year old male offspring.)

A couple weeks ago I felt the (OCD) need to take care of this. Last week I cleaned, threw away and moved stuff out. I’m sure the ability to fit so much in such a small space counts as some kind of well honed special talent! This week has been spent stripping grass cloth wallpaper (by the way - whoever invented it should be shot! It’s horrible nasty to get off the walls.) Then I was faced with drywall in need of serious scrubbing (oh joy!) to get off the remaining glue. The previous owners of the house had a little girl who obviously thought wallpaper was a tack board. I swear I used a gallon of spackle (no not really) to cover about a zillion thumb tack holes. Then came the really fun part.sanding and the fine white dust layer covering everything.

The ceilings and walls were painted last night. Tonight will be spent pulling carpet (with the added bonus of removing all those staples they use on the padding - never have figured out why they need so many of those annoying little buggers), painting trim and  baseboards, touchup and laying new plank flooring. Tomorrow - a quick trip (yah right is any shopping trip quick for a woman?) to the home improvement store to get a few (dozen) things I’ll need to finish up, with a side trip to Walmart for an area rug and curtains. Then home to assemble the nifty new computer desk I bought. Although I must admit - I enjoy using my drill - makes me feel empowered.

Next week, I’ll bring home a storage cabinet and chair already purchased (I sell office furniture for a living so the furniture was the easiest part of all!) and VOILA! I’m not sure my kid gives two hoots about how it all looks, though he’s been warned to keep it clean. (Side Note: 4 years later it’s not terribly clean - kids - go figure.) He’s more concerned the cable modem will be disconnected for a short while this weekend while the PC is transferred from the old desk to the new. Hmmm..wonder where he gets online OCD from? Any ideas? I’ll be back online like usual soon enough and looking forward to getting back to my normal routine.