I picked up the paint for the living room this week and spent all of this afternoon preparing to paint, painting and cleaning up from painting. Painting is awful. I think I probably spent as much time moving furniture, cleaning walls, wrangling tape and drop cloths, and cleaning paint covered implements as I did actually [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Jul 20
Birthday chairs
I ordered my chairs today. My sofa is a beautiful and unique snowflake. The design is no longer made, the upholstery (sadie driftwood) is no longer made, and the finish code for the wood bits is a code which is not used anymore. That said, I ended up getting two of the Ava chairs in [...]
Jul 04
Ava
I have a sofa called Ava. I bought this sofa from Storehouse furniture back before they imploded but I did not buy the chairs that went with it because money doesn’t grow on trees. I still have the paperwork and upholstery sample somewhere in the house from the sofa but I don’t remember where it [...]
Jul 03
Not bad
Everything’s coming up Milhouse. This was already a good week. The presentation went well at work and work became permanent. I’m still very excited about that. Before I started my contract in May I signed up to take the GRE. The idea is to go to grad school for materials science. UT has a really [...]