I’ve finished painting the living room. No pictures today since it’s still kind of a mess but the back wall is all brown now. I still think the brown is a little too red but it mostly looks off when it’s night and the kitchen light is on so maybe it’s just that there’s a little more red in the fluorescent output that’s messing with me. It looks ok. I’ve been thinking about some curtains for the living room windows too. A big, flat TV will have problems with glare coming off the windows that it is facing and curtains would help tie the colors together. I saw some nice ones at Crate and Barrel and at Z Gallerie.
Z Gallerie also had some pillows with nice fabric but they’re square and I think I’d prefer some of the cylindrical pillows. I think they’re called bolster pillows but you get the idea. I think I’m going to have a look at Etsy and see if anyone in town makes pillows and would do a commissioned lot.
This week I also got my annual nastygram from the home owners association. As per the unpublished quota bylaw, some insignificant horticultural transgression of mine triggered the release of the hounds and a three page letter informing me that I had weeds growing in my driveway expansion grooves and that if I was insufficiently speedy in remedying the condition or if that or another issue like it appears again in six months I’ll get fined $75 and be further threatened. I love my house but being beholden to this idiotic cadre of petty tyrants is galling. It makes writing the dues check in December a bitter pill to swallow knowing that the only real benefit I get from my $330 is my annual correspondence and the sight of the human whales beached in the outdoor public urinal pool down the street. My friends have offered several suggestions for how best to strike back at my suburban oppressors but instead I pulled weeds and mowed like a good little sheep. :|
Finally, I went shopping yesterday. I don’t really care for the proliferation of exaggerated embroidery and paint on Men’s shirts these days. Some of my friends can pull that look off but I think I just look silly in it. Too bad for me. I also wandered into the home store at Macy’s thinking they might have some pillows and they had a few but nothing like what I wanted. I did see a nice bed set that was on sale. It came with curtains and decorative pillows and all kinds of other good stuff. I’d need to break down and get the bedroom furniture and a new mattress though and I’m not sure where that’s going to fit into the finances with the chairs and the TV. I probably ought to buy the bed instead of the TV since I spend 6-8 hours a day on the bed and don’t watch much TV anymore but that would be the smart thing to do and since when have I ever done that?