random thoughts on a friday afternoon

[swingchickie]

* being loved is: opening a can of mixed nuts you have in your cupboard, to discover that your boyfriend ate all the nuts you don't really like and left you all the ones you do. awwwwwwwww.

* yesterday i started back on my "no refined carbs and excessive crap" eating plan, that was working well with weight watchers earlier this year. i'd forgotten just what happens to your body when you go from a lot of refined sugar to very little -- today i swung from feeling exhausted to feeling almost high and then getting a burst of energy... then right back to exhausted. i know it'll even out in a day or two, but whoa.

* i totally forgot this, but last night i had a dream that i had a big garage/shed behind my house that was in a state of total disrepair... i walked into it (i hadn't been in it in a long time) and the place was overrun with raccoons -- there were holes dug into the floor, the smell of pee was overwhelming, and these fat masked raccoons were lumbering around everywhere. and there was something with martha steart, she was there tsk-tsking what a bad homeowner i was. and i was looking at how awful it was, wondering how i was going to fix everything and get rid of the raccoons. house stress much? "beales of grey gardens" much?

* i'm holding off on painting this weekend. i'm going to do a lot of the prep, but jack told his co-worker (whose partner is a painter) about my spare bedroom and she's going to run it by him before i do anything. i have to keep telling myself that it's better do fix those evil people's mistakes and leave the house better than when i bought it, than just patch up what they did. sigh.

Comments

[ms-violet.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's time for you to have a rest? Maybe Ms. Stewart was tsk-tsking about metaphoric raccoons.

[thetech.livejournal.com]

Also consider, that if you simply "patched up" whatever crap the previous owners did, would you be happy with the job? Personally, it would drive me nuts to do that, hence the extremely long time it's taking to renovate my house... I'm basically dismantling each room down to the studs and redoing everything from the frame onwards.