good morning saturday!

It is raining.  Our bit of Hanna is here.

My cold is still here, but not nearly as bad as before.  Hurrah.

(I did have an unpleasant dream as I woke up this morning, in which my eight-year-old cousin had in her curiosity caused some minor damage to a Christmas ornament, and my grandmother was really awful about it, which really upset the kid, and then my grandmother accused her of faking up her tears to get more sympathy from all of us who had come in to see what the kid was crying about.  There had been some sentimental-value explanation for why the ornament was so important to my grandmother, but no excuse for the way she was treating my cousin, and I don't really want to think about it much more because it makes me unhappy.  My hope is that describing it will have got it out of my mind so I don't need to keep rehashing it.)

I have Great Plans for today.  I shall paint the guest room, possibly touch up some bits of the living room if I think I can stand it, even do the bathroom if I'm feeling really ambitious.  (I predict I will do the first two of these.  We know me.)  I shall definitely clean (incl. sweeping up loose hair, a problem that has to be dealt with more frequently when there's no carpet for it to stick to) and take out the trash.  I should also do laundry, but anything I took out of the dryer would get wet again between the laundry room and my door.  Might have to do it anyway.  And I may go out to acquire a couple more frames to hang things up with, possibly a file cabinet if I think the bank balance will support it (yesterday was payday, after all).

This is a kind of crazy ambition I tend to notice in myself when I'm coming off being sick.  We'll see how much of it gets done.  (I also have [mumble] skeins of yarn that need winding -- not more than half a dozen, I think, but, dudes, right? -- and at least two colorways that I'm still hunting for, so I may go down to ATS and try to find what I'm looking for, and see if they'll let me wind this stuff I didn't buy from them while I'm there.  Which they've done in the past, because they are awesome like that.)

paint!

ellen_fremedon says I'm peculiarly aware of and affected by my environment.  I guess that may be true; I've got color up on the walls in my guest room now, and I love the room so much more already.  Love love love.

I'll tell you something else, though.  I don't understand flat paint.  My parents have their walls painted flat, and my friend I was staying with last week as well, and why would you do this when there is eggshell?  It looks almost the same, it's not like shiny or anything, but it's got a smoothness to it that is so much nicer.  And if you ever have occasion to touch the wall, eggshell is very pleasant, but flat is like dry and chalky.  Feh.

paint again

For the record:  I expect deep colors to take two coats.  This deep blue takes three, and that's too much.  Oy.

Nevertheless, two coats of the light blue and three of the deep, and the guest room is done and drying.  I have done the touching-up in the living room and the dining room.  As predicted, I think I shall not do the bathroom today.  What I will do:  shower omg, and then go up to the Target for frames.  YAY.