Friday, October 03, 2008

• I've died and gone to heaven...

  I've tried really hard to sit down on a regular basis and post something.  I sit and stare and think to myself "Nope not today"!  The truth is I have been remodeling like a fiend, dreaming about remodeling, pondering remodeling, and doing other trivial things while thinking about remodeling.  OK, except bathroom time because that is strictly saved for reading.  Bet you wanted to know that huh?

  However, the truth is, I am overwhelmingly happy with the way my living room looks now, and as soon as I get off my butt from here tonight I will be adding the final touches to it.  I've painted, rearranged furniture, bought new furniture at an incredible steal of a price, bought plants and pots, candle holders, candles, put up clocks that have been in the closet for a few years, and then stare at it and decide what final touches it needs.  I've never shopped so much in my freaking life, and as much as I used to hate it...I LOVE IT now.  I literally sit in my kitchen and stare at how pretty I think the living room looks.  It's goofy.

  You would think I would be tired and worn out from it, but NO NO HECK NAW!  As soon as I put the finishing touches on this room, I am on to my bedroom because qute frankly it looks like a dungeon right now and I am sick of freaking looking at it that way.  You see it has had an unsealed concrete floor in it for quite some time.  Apparently 24 gallons of flood water ruins carpet...who knew?  So, because my cats walk across it then jump on my bed, I have grown weary of having little dusty kitty prints on my bed.  I thought about it, and debated a million different ways to fix this problem, and have decided to go with a new trend and stain the concrete.  I've started picking out colors and next weekend it will be finished! 

  Then as if it was a gift handed to me from the interior decorating gods, I found a page in a paint technique book that is EXACTLY what I have been wanting to do to my kitchen forever, and IT will also be affordable.  Hopefully in the spring, I will have my kitchen the way I want it and then I will finally feel like this is my home instead of the crappy wall paper my step mother thought was pretty.

  So there you go.  I haven't been around because I have been stuck in my own Jilly-fied version of Trading Spaces.  Thank you TLC for ruining my blog life!

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