February 29, 2004
travelin' again
Tomorrow I board a plane for Chicago. All I want is some time at the Donna villa! Is that too much to ask? Almost all of my stuff is here. Everything but my record collection. That will take a few trucks to haul. While I was unpacking, I found my ticket from Hands Across America! I own too much and I can't throw any of it away.
This evening I went to Best Buy looking for a wireless router. I intended to buy a super G but the salesmen said that I should go with 802 11 B since I only share an Internet connection and not files. This threw me for a loop and so I left the store empty handed. Suggestions, anyone?
Gosh I hope I can find some clothes to pack for my trip. Is anyone else excited about the Natalie Wood bio-flick on ABC tomorrow night? She made some great movies, Love with the Proper Stranger, Sex and the Single Girl, Inside Daisy Clover, etc...
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moving
Friday, when the clock struck 5:00, I turned off my laptop and left my office to move the contents of my room to the Donna villa. It is almost a month after closing and I am now finally moved in. Last night was the first night I slept in MY HOUSE and I slept like a baby!
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February 26, 2004
It's great to be back home again
I am home. The Texas trip was successful. I ate, I slept, I looked interested during the meetings, and I caught the very last episode of Sex in the City. Goodness, it is almost unnatural how much I am looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight. My hope for this weekend is that I will get myself moved in to the Donna villa. Every task I have underestimated, so who knows what I will accomplish.
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February 22, 2004
ugh!
I am almost ready. My crosswords are printed and clothes are ironed, folded, and packed. Just a few loose odds and ends are left to tie up. I am not looking forward to this business trip. I would so much prefer staying home and working on the Donna villa. The only thing left is to move in! That will happen next weekend. I am not even sure what I am doing in Texas this week. I think training classes-- I sure hope I am not supposed to be the trainer! They would have told me... I think. At any rate, off I go to where the stars at night are big and bright.
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February 20, 2004
friday
I took most of the day off from work and worked on the Donna villa. The moulding is now painted and so are the doors. My father hung the lamp in the dining room and we moved in the table and chairs. Somehow everything is taking shape. I am so happy. Soon soon soon I will have another home! Just wish I didn't have to go to Fort Worth on Sunday. (The plane ticket cost the same as my sofa!?!)
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February 17, 2004
You better run you better hide
Thanks to David, I got to see some of my favorite childhood TV shows rerun on TvLand: Sigmund & the Sea Monsters and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. I planned on watching Lidsville but by the time that came on I was a bit over-Sid & Marty Krofft-ed. Sadly, Rip Taylor did not make an appearance on the Sigmund & the Sea Monsters episode that aired.
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February 16, 2004
red, or rather nuclear currant
Speaking about a Farrah Fawcett appearance, Dawn Eden wrote:"I had to go because if I didn't, my nine-year-old self would never forgive me." I just love this quote because it is exactly how I feel whenever I am greeted by the opportunity to see a Monkee. I can't disappoint the 11-year-old girl I was once!
I bought a sofa today during my lunch break. Lisa and I first saw it a few weeks ago and we kept returning to look at it. Why was I so hesitant to buy the sofa? The reason is the color. It is red and I have never been that type of girl. I always play it safe- beige, tan, brown, etc. Looking at the red reverse camel sofa I decided to heck on the type of girl I have always been-- gosh darnit, I am going for it! RED! Yeeee Ha!
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February 15, 2004
MINE!
This is the dining room table I bought yesterday: Ashley Furniture - Dining - Con - Allessi
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February 14, 2004
Happy Valentine's Day
I spent Valentine's Day painting my new bedroom and shopping at outlet furniture stores. I even bought a dining room table (and 6 chairs)!
Best darn Valentine's Day ever!
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February 12, 2004
donna villa
The Donna villa is looking great!!! The living room and loft have been painted Behr's Swiss Coffee! The painters did a fantabulous job! It's amazing how simply changing the wall color can do so much for a room. Not only do they look larger but so much cleaner.
What is left:
- Finish painting my bedroom
- Prime and paint hallway
- Putty woodwork in dining room
- Prime and paint dining room
- Buy a sofa & coffee table
- Buy a kitchen table and chairs
- Sort through the boxes of my grandmother's dishes and pots and stuff
- Move in
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February 11, 2004
what's going on?
Something odd has been happening to me. Everyday, for the last week and a half, whenever I turn on the radio, within a song or two, Elton John's Tiny Dancer plays. At first I thought it was funny but now I am beginning to freak out. This is too strange a coincidence. It must be a sign. What can it mean!?! All I can figure is maybe Tony Danza has a new sitcom debuting.
Hold me closer, Tony Danza
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February 10, 2004
surrender
I hired a painter to paint my living room. Then I thought, why stop there? So I called him back and asked him to paint the loft. Now I am thinking, maybe he can do my bedroom and the dining room, too.
It's so all encompassing and it is taking forever! I want to move in! NOW! I also want to go furniture shopping since I think it would be a good idea to have a place to eat and a place to sit. There doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day. I am tired and I have absolutely nothing to say and I know some might argue that I never have anything to say which is ultimately true although I do take pride that I am at least moderately entertaining at times. Sadly, that time is not now. I did scare a man away the other day. My mom talked one of her colleagues into helping me paint Friday evening. I thought we had a great time priming and painting. He even said he would come back the next day to help out more but he never showed. My mom says he now refuses to make eye contact with her. I don't remember doing anything off-putting. I guess some people are just blinded (and slightly repelled) by my sparkling personality.
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February 08, 2004
boring II the electric boogaloo
1. Touched up the green wall in the kitchen. I have decided that I like the color and do not regret choosing it.
2. Painted the rest of the walls Behr's Swiss Coffee.
3. Painted the moulding to match the walls.
The kitchen is very nearly complete. I just need to paint the patio door and give the closet doors another coat of paint.
Tomorrow I hope to paint the trim in my bedroom and maybe even the hallway. Then on Tuesday, I can roll the paint on. Maybe I will be able to start moving in next Friday. Wouldn't that be terrific?
I plan on posting some before and after pictures so you can see what I have gone through the last couple weeks.
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LOL
retroCRUSH: YEAR OF THE MONKEY
THE FIFTY COOLEST APES OF ALL TIME!
Check out #7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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February 07, 2004
boring
Yesterday I...
1. Primed my bedroom walls.
2. Primed and sealed the kitchen walls.
Today I...
1. Painted one kitchen wall green. Behr New Green. It is bright. Very bright. I hope it wasn't a mistake.
2. Sealed and primed the kitchen ceiling.
Tomorrow I hope to...
1. Paint my bedroom.
2. Paint Lisa's bedroom.
3. Paint the kitchen ceiling.
4. Paint the kitchen molding.
It's Saturday night and I have a yen to go out but my body hurts and I am tired. I also spent $64.00 at Home Depot today so my pockets are empty. Maybe I'll just watch some TV and knit.
P.S. There is an Aldi opening nearby and I am really excited. Gosh, I am getting soooo old.
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February 04, 2004
Janice Rule
I just found out that one of my favorite actresses died a few months ago. Her name was Janice Rule and she portrayed Roxanne in The Subterraneans. In that movie she wore heavy eye make-up, painted sad self-portraits, and did wild bohmenian dances. No wonder I loved her. She also guest starred in a couple Fugitive episodes. One of her husbands was Ben Gazzara. He was the lead in the TV show, Run for Your Life. I absolutely adored that show. It came on right after It Takes a Thief.
At the tender age of 15, I watched The Subterraneans on TNT. It was a sanitized version of the Jack Kerouac novella. George Peppard starred as Leo Percepied and Leslie Caron was his black, errrrr, I mean French girlfriend, Mardou. Arte Johnson from Laugh-In fame played a Truman Capote-like character. The other beatniks were portrayed by Jim Hutton and Roddy McDowall. Jim Hutton made a couple of movies with Paula Prentiss and he later starred as Ellery Queen on TV. Sadly, he is mainly known today as the father of Timothy Hutton. Roddy McDowall was in so many great movies. My favorite was Lord Love a Duck with Tuesday Weld. When I was in college, I interned at a local news station. One afternoon, I was told to take a cup of coffee down to the studio for some guest. I grumbled all the way to the studio wondering how I ever got myself into such a servile position. "Here's your coffee, sir" I said to the guest. The face that greeted me belonged to RODNEY MACDOWALL!
"Thank you my dear!" he said.
"You.. you... you are Rodney MacDowell!" I exclaimed.
"Yes, I do believe so" he replied.
"I... I... I WORSHIP YOU!!!!!"
"Oh my, you do have good taste."
Talk about servile and stupid. Oh well, we all have moments.
At any rate, The Subterraneans left a lasting impression on me. I remember, weeks after my first viewing, I took to wearing a black beret and too much eyeliner. Looking back I realize that what I loved was the beatnik image as portrayed by Hollywood. It wasn't Alan Ginsberg that I loved; it was Maynard G. Krebs*. That may explain why after about 20 attempts, I still haven't made it through the novella.
*Do you know what the G stands for? Walter.
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scrape scrape scrape
Went to the Donna villa this evening. The paste is finally off 3 of the 4 dining room walls. I even started to spackle. There is still more wallpaper to strip but I refuse to dwell on it. My hope is to get almost everything painted by Friday. The living room will have to wait because the ceiling is too high for me and I must hire someone to paint it. The kitchen needs to be wallpapered. I learned my lesson and will just re-wallpaper over the existing country floral pattern that is there now. Lastly, the hallway needs to get sanded, stained, and varnished. Then it will be time to start buying furniture. Thankfully I bought a bedroom set a few years ago so all I really need is a sofa, chair, and coffee table. Of course, I also need a dining room table and chairs. UGH! This is never ending.
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February 03, 2004
Another gouge-- gonna need some spackle here!
Scraping wallpaper paste. Night after night. I feel like Sisyphus. I scrape and scrape but I can't get down to the wall. All I wanted was to live in a house that doesn't have pink walls. One day, maybe in five years, I will have the walls clean and ready to paint. Just in time for me to move out.
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